Hanover College

Date: Jun 25 2005
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
Liberal arts is not that fun. Many courses have no relevance to one's major and eventually become very time-consuming as a result of the school's high expectations. For freshmen, the school is implementing a "Vision Plan" that if you ask me has little to do with vision and much to do with blindness to the desires of students. It involves a 1.5 week-long orientation program that is about 7 days too long, and ends with a spring term course that all freshmen MUST take at the end of the first year. All in all the administration is about the bottomline: money. You are a number, and they will do what it takes to keep you there to generate tuition. Since the school creates its own liberal arts degree prgram, many of the school's credits do not transfer to another college. Unless you transfer after the first term (and most of the bad parts of the school aren't apparent until after the first year) you are stuck at Hanover because if you did tranfer, you'd have to basically do your entire college education over again. Also, the town itself sucks. There is nothing to do. One more thing: most of the student body is involved in greek life. The tradition is what keeps brigning in students, so the frats and sororities, along with their alumni hold lots of sway.