Transferred
out of Psychology to an out-of-state school due to several
factors: 1. Professors in Psy are only interested in their
own research
2. Professors in Psy only openly accept grad
students who work on the Prof's research projects
3. Other
students are so poorly prepared that they need reading and
writing assistance to complete their projects (and they expect native
English speaker cohorts to provide that assistance, or they complain
about you). I believe in doing my own work and
not another person's.
4. There is a great amount of
cheating going on by non native English speakers; whether that
is due to the low admission requirements or to poor
remedial classes in English, I don't know. I can't count
the number of papers that I knew were written for
other students by others that charged. I was even approached
to write papers for others.
5. Student resources (administration, registration,
financial aid, etc) are a joke. They run around like
chickens with their heads cut off and it's a wonder
they haven't been sued to their negligence.
6. Favoritism
towards non-native English speakers seems to purposely exclude native English
speakers. Before I left, I heard that they were going
to spend money on a parallel Spanish-only infrastructure for the
web and online applications. Come on! You have to pass
the English Equiv. exams (for fake it) to get in.
7. The athletics area takes up most of the on
campus dorm rooms, so it's basically jock central consisting of
those who were recruited for their physical prowess.
8.
The computing facilities and the Library are very nice, if
you can get people off of the machines who are
on youtube and facebook or looking at porn.
9. The
buildings are very nice, the campus is phenomenal.
10. Parking
is a total joke; costs too much and is not
enforced by the parking police.
BUT - There are quite
a few OTHER faculty and staff that care, are concerned
and spend their days trying to make a difference.
—This
school could stand to tighten the admissions requirements and get
those people out of classes who should have stopped at
community college level.