Goucher College

Date: Jan 12 2012
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
Transferring out of Goucher College is still the best decision I have ever made. If you had any semblance of a social life before attending college, you probably do not belong there. If you can carry a conversation that doesn't involve Star Trek or World of Warcraft, you probably belong somewhere else. If your music taste isn't obscure and you don't put value in being "indie", you probably belong somewhere else. The president of the school was quoted for saying something along the lines of "if you didn't have any friends in high school, you'll have friends at Goucher". I don't think he was trying to be negative when he said that, but it says something about the type of students the school attracts nonetheless. Goucher has the most awkward student body I have come across. Every day felt like a competition to be weirder than everyone else. Students cared more about being different than making a difference. The professors I had at Goucher were also disappointing. I had some brilliant ones, but I also had a professor that barely spoke English and taught us the methods for glazing using the Korean names. When I transferred, this didn't go over well in my ceramics course. My mentor/adviser stopped talking to me/trying to help me after she found out I was transferring. Goucher College wasted tons of resources on a giant eyesore library they didn't need, when there is a definite housing crisis. They do not guarantee on-campus housing, even though their brochures say otherwise. As a freshman, I lived in a double that had been turned into a triple. The fire marshal told the school this was unacceptable and during room draw the next spring, hundreds of sophomores, juniors and seniors were turned away from living on campus simply because they had drawn a lottery number that was above the cutoff. Living in Towson isn't exactly fun, either. Because it is a college town, the cost of rent is inflated and in general, it's not the best place one could live. Yes, we're close to Baltimore… but not nearly as close as the school makes it sound. Baltimore is a great city, but Goucher is NOT as involved as they like to believe. In fact, the only time I was given an opportunity to volunteer was for a class taught by a professor that graduated from the same school I ended up attending/graduating.