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| Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Female | This person cares more about Surrounding City than the average student. | Intelligence:
Quite Bright | | ACT: 30 | | SAT: 1400 | | Lowest Rating
Surrounding City F | Describes the student body mostly as:
Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Helpful | Highest Rating
Campus Aesthetics/Beauty A+ | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | B | Faculty Accessibility | B | | Useful Schoolwork | B | Excess Competition | B | | Academic Success | B- | Creativity/Innovation | B- | | Individual Value | B | University Resource Use | B- | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | A+ | Friendliness | B- | | Campus Maintenance | B | Social Life | C- | | Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | B | | Safety | C |
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I'm
transferring. I love the school and it's such a shame
because it really is beautiful, but there are two major
factors why it isn't for me, and most likely isn't
for you. One, if you choose Loyola because you want
to attend a city school, don't. Loyola may be technically
in Baltimore but the city of Baltimore is largely inaccessible,
dangerous, and separate from campus. If what Loyola is surrounded
in is Baltimore, then it must be the absolute worst
part. You can't walk down the street at night without
getting mugged or put in some other dangerous situation -
we receive emails about incidents that occur on York road
daily from campus police. And that leads into my second
reason - Loyola has virtually no concept of a social
life apart from going to the bars. This is a
bar school to the definition, and if you don't like
to drink on tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday nights
with the occasional monday night, you won't feel comfortable here.
I bought a fake i.d. because I thought that was
my golden ticket to a social life but really it
just gets you in to crappy places and a slew
of boring, predictable nights. Loyola kids have to be smart
because it is a hard school to get into, but
they don't show it when completely smashed, which they are
seventy percent of the time. Community service? I've been here
two months and haven't heard a word about it. But
back to my main point - the social life. It
is not in any way “low key.” There are no
dorm parties, forcing kids to go off campus to Johns
Hopkins frats - big mistake. You will waste your money
away on taxis everywhere, and the frats at JH are
maddddd sketchy. They are downright dangerous, there is a hazing
ritual that pledges have to sleep with a Loyola girl
and steal her “swipe” meaning her key to get around
the school which contains all her money. The scene here
is so not a good time. It just isn't. The
people are fake, very much the same, wear the same
things, stay up all night (I swear my roommate is
a vampire) and judge everyone, all the time, immediately. It
is a social hierarchy here and I've made friends, been
told I am a nice person, and still I want
desperately to get out. There is such an air of
effort, of trying too hard, that the girls can't go
out at night without wearing club outfits, freezing in December.
If you want to attend a school where you are
expected to be social every night of the week, and
by be social I mean drink until you are blackout
drunk, and still keep up with your massive amounts of
work, and if you want to attend a school where
the surface is much more important than what's inside, and
everyone is the same (rich, white, preppy and judgmental) then
come here. I've been on this site many times and
I know I read disgruntled negative comments and think to
myself, “well this person was obviously just unpopular and didn't
fit in,” but I promise you this is not the
case. I'm dreading telling the VERY FEW friends I have
made here that I'm leaving, but I just can't envision
four years here. All the things I thought I came
to Loyola for are not here now that I am
here, and I regret choosing this school. Don't say I
didn't warn you.
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