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Hofstra University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityB+ Faculty AccessibilityA+
Useful SchoolworkA+ Excess CompetitionA-
Academic SuccessB+ Creativity/ InnovationB+
Individual ValueA University Resource UseA
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA FriendlinessA+
Campus MaintenanceB Social LifeB+
Surrounding CityA- Extra CurricularsB+
SafetyB
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Approachable, Snooty

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

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He rated most things higher than other students did.
Date: Mar 02 2009
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
OK people I have seen talking about this university on this website and i have to be blunt and honest. The maintenance is a huge problem at this school guys. The lights and plumbing are not as up to par in the four oldest residence halls as i would prefer. People do not go to the sports games that much with the exception of basketball and a few other sports. The school is pricey there is no denying that. Also there are no official fraternity or sorority houses around the campus.

That is the bad I agree with anyone who says any of these things! I want that clear. However, I was a transfer from a big state school. I am from Long Island. I never considered Hofstra before in my life and never had been to it. I was unhappy at my other school and decided to look around and actually started to read about Hofstra and visited.

This school is great for Academics the saying that it is up and coming does not even begin to describe Hofstra. All the professors are heads of big companies emmy award winners pulitzer prize winners famous writers and chemists. These people know the real world are always available to help and are very personal and make it their job especially in their major to know your name. In work world Hofstra gets a better name every day. When i apply to internships in the city all the time people ask on interviews have u heard of so and so great guy/woman a lot of respect for so an so. Yea there are boring teachers too but thats any school. The good outweigh the bad here.

The school which these other commenters keep leaving out is the campus is beautiful to hang round and walk round. The food to them is bad, but yet when people visit and eat here they say its some of the best college food they have ever had., Its school food its not meant to be great. Yet there is more variety and different types than at most schools even big well known. I asked a friend on campus if he really thought the food was bad because he was going to the student center for his third meal of the day. He said no its actually great food he has just gotten so use to it.

As for the fraternity and sorority and house parties. One hofstra is a wet cmapus there are a large amount of dorm parties. Again what people on this website keep avoiding to mention to you is that these dorms are some of the bigger dorms in most colleges you will ever see. And the crappiest ones are the four towers and they are constantly being updated. So i dont kno where they get their stats mayb they are losers who do not go out. And the bar is fun dizzys, nachos, bar social, shy lounge all of which are really easy with ID and the school does no take notice. Dizzys also has connections with bars in the city like Porkys, which is one of the top 100 party bars in manhattan. I am not friends with any of the bar owners by the way. I have been thrown out a few times from the bars. Also on campus the many clubs and greek life throw events on campus all the time so people always find new good food for free and something to do like concerts, fashion shows and stuff like all other universities. Not to mention fraternities like TEP and TKE throw 5 dollar bangers throughout the year and just other people who move off campus after a few years throw house parties all the time and people go to them for fun. And yea the houses are crowded and grimy DUH ITS COLLEGE!!. NAME A COLLEGE THAT DOESNT HAVE HOSUES WITH THAT DESCRIPTION.

Public safety is really helpful and are always patrolling all over campus and off campus, because they know where student live off campus. They do not break up the parties but watch for students walking by themselves. Or who look out of control.

Also the university every semester is always building something new for the campus. New buildings or renovating the old ones which isnt like other schools. Like this fall they are bringing printing carts in every dorm, rebuilding the gym, building the medical school, cleaning the old dorms with new mailboxes and fire safe doors.

You can park on campus from day one. The campus is almost half out of state. While at most big schools that people advertise on here like penn state, colorado are almost 80 percent in state. So much for that real college experience they seem to desire for. Here you get some of the bets restaurants in the world connections to shopping centers and obvious NYC.

Yea there are guidos and sluts. But first of all what college does not have a lot of sluts? And the guido population is pumped up alot and there are a lot of jews. Obviously at an expensive private school btw you would find a lot of rich white kids. Sorry guys its the way of the world. But hofstra is one of the most diverse in the nation so shut up.

Also if your a commuter no matter what college you go to you dont get a real college experience so im sorry advice to those trying to apply do not come unless you plan to liv eon campus. O and BTW very few "long island" kids go to hofstra. The most popular college campus for long island kids is not even on Long island. Hostra is not even a top ten for where most long island kids go.

Hofstra is also on the verge of becoming a little ivy. Which is a member of the ivy league. SO when you diss hofstra get your facts straight by losers and transfers get gone. You are the few not the many of this university

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commentHofstra is known for its obscure reputation. The education is average at best, far from Ivy League and the people are plain stereotypes. I know all this from many people in real life and it is something you never hear frequently from an Ivy League university. Aspiring to become Ivy, is different from actually being it.
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