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| Major: English (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Female | This person cares more about Individual Value than the average student. | Intelligence: Quite Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: | | Lowest Rating Excess Competition F | Describes the student body mostly as: Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty mostly as: Friendly, Helpful | Highest Rating Faculty Accessibility A+ | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | B+ | Faculty Accessibility | A+ | | Useful Schoolwork | B | Excess Competition | F | | Academic Success | B | Creativity/Innovation | D | | Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | C+ | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | C | Friendliness | A- | | Campus Maintenance | B | Social Life | F | | Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | F | | Safety | C |
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you are a transfer student, do NOT pick Longwood.
The transfer students receive a one day orientation that, to
be honest, is quite useless. Those in charge of this
“orientation” have poorly planned it out, and do not give
the students useful information. They basically tell you how
amazing Longwood is from 7am-4pm then abandon you to figure
things out for yourself. At the end of this
day you will be expected to sign up for classes,
and will tell you to take things you will find
out later you didn't actually need. People working in
the school offices are incredibly rude when you go to
them with questions, and make it obvious they could care
less about the students. All in all, this university
does not offer a good experience and displays a horrible
lack of respect to the students who pay to go
here. As for the students, the vast majority are extremely
snotty and cliquey. I attempted on numerous occasions my
first year to be friendly and speak to people, since
I was new and had no friends at the university.
Everyone was incredibly rude, and half would just grunt
or shoot me a dirty look when I simply tried
to introduce myself. Even in the clubs I tried
to join, people were very standoffish and did not seem
to want you there unless you were already friends.
Luckily, I happened to get two really great roommates my
second semester here and met a few nice people through
them. However, I do wish I had decided to
transfer earlier, because the environment in classes and in the
social aspect of the school is horrible. Longwood is
full of individuals who are much too self absorbed, and
ordinary people who believe themselves geniuses. Unless you arrive
as a freshman and meet people through the extended freshman
orientation, good luck meeting people. As for the education aspect,
the teachers have all been really friendly and accessible in
my experience. There have been one or two exceptions,
but for the most part the professors really want to
see you succeed and are willing to help. The
main problem I have is that the majority of students
who go here are education majors, which leads to a
lot of assumptions that we are ALL education majors from
the teachers. This will lead to a lot of
useless projects (for those who don't want to teach) due
in class geared toward this assumption. It is also
quite difficult to find an internship, which is required by
the school. The department head recommended I do an
internship with a certain instructor, then told him I could
not do the internship only a few weeks before the
semester ended, and I really did not have time to
make alternate arrangements. Since the professors here really are
great, he went above and beyond to help me find
another professor to do the internship with. So, don't go
to the higher ups. The professors here are where
it's at. If you want to spend your four years
of college only focusing on your schoolwork, and leaving every
weekend so you can do something other than go to
Walmart or the movies, Longwood is for you. But,
if you are not a typical thin, Caucasian, attractive sorority
girl, or stereotypical frat boy, don't expect to find many
friends. I feel I have gotten a decent education
here, but I really do wish I had considered transferring
after my first semester.
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