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Belmont University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityF Faculty AccessibilityA-
Useful SchoolworkF Excess CompetitionD
Academic SuccessF Creativity/ InnovationF
Individual ValueF University Resource UseF
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA+ FriendlinessC
Campus MaintenanceA+ Social LifeF
Surrounding CityA+ Extra CurricularsF
SafetyC
Describes the student body as:
Arrogant

Describes the faculty as:
Helpful, Arrogant, Condescending, Self Absorbed

Female
ACT:31
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Educational Quality
F
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Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty
A+
She cares more about Educational Quality than the average student.
Date: Jul 16 2008
Major: Nursing (This Major's Salary over time)
With seemingly everyone going into nursing these days, just a note to those considering Belmont University in Nashville, TN. DON'T GO THERE.

…Unless you want to look worse by comparison to graduates from other schools, that is. What you won't find on the website, or in the pamphlets, or hear about on the tour is that Belmont's School of Nursing has seen fit to reinvent the grading scale (apparently the one one used by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins just isn't quite good enough for the delusional egos at this school). This is something you will find out if you go there (or were fortunate enough to read it here first and decide wisely to go anywhere else). You see, a 93% at Belmont is not an A. Neither is a 94%. That's right, no lie. While grads from other programs will be sending out resumes and filling out grad school and scholarship application forms with their GPA 4.0 emblazoned on it, you can put your 3.80 or 3.85 on yours (and have the satisfaction of knowing it WOULD have been a 4.0 if you'd only gone to any other school in the country). Maybe you can even put that on the scholarship forms; surely the scholarship committee members will just take your word for it.

If this isn't reason enough to deter to you from attending this academic blackhole, consider the "thinking" that goes on in a place where the idea of standardized comparison is either too difficult to grasp for those doing the "thinking," or the collective egos at work override not only what would be fair to the students who pay money to attend Belmont (poor saps), but would also be good for the school. See, apparently the powers-that-be haven't figured out (or simply don't care) that if each school customized its own grading scale, making comparisons between students from different schools becomes quite impossible and the idea of grades themselves quite pointless. Not unlike if each state decided that a US dollar wasn't really a dollar but was $.70 in TN and $1.87 in KY. Kinda blows up the whole idea of what a dollar really is, no? So consider what you're getting into if you're thinking about going to this dump.

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