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Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
Gender: MaleThis person cares more about Faculty Accessibility than the average student.
Intelligence:
Bright
ACT:
SAT: 1250
Lowest Rating
Faculty Accessibility F
Describes the student body mostly as:
Snooty

Describes the faculty mostly as:
Self Absorbed

Highest Rating
Campus Aesthetics/Beauty A+
How this student rated the school:
Educational QualityD Faculty AccessibilityF
Useful SchoolworkD Excess CompetitionD
Academic SuccessC Creativity/InnovationC-
Individual ValueF University Resource UseA
Campus Aesthetics/BeautyA+ FriendlinessC-
Campus MaintenanceA+ Social LifeF
Surrounding CityB Extra CurricularsC
SafetyA
 
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. 
 
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