University Buffalo

Date: Jun 18 2012
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
Here's the raw reality of the University at Buffalo.

1. Their TA's get paid to sleep!

2. UB give's out fellowships to students who already have several BA and MA degrees!

3. This school is all about the GRAD student ~ many of the GRAD students are TA's with holier than thou attitudes!

4. Their financial aid and Student Response Center (SRC) is the worst… You would think such a highly respected school such as UB would have their act together in these departments, but they don't. The personnel are unmotivated, overworked, clueless and unfriendly! Cross your fingers that your financial aid doesn't get messed up, because it will take the entire school year to straighten it out!

5. Many classrooms are in need of repair and go ignored while the college builds on new additions. Desks are broken, walls peeling, and the smell of garbage lingers in the tunnel, a tunnel students must walk through to get to some classes.

6. Most professors show up to class… some don't, but don't expect to see your professor all the time. Instead, expect to see a TA teaching your 100-level course.

7. Lastly, parking is atrocious, lots are far from the actual classrooms. Dorm students take up the closest spots and they never move their cars, thus, in the winter the commuter student must walk quite a distance. Security scans cars nearly daily, and if you don't your parking permit showing you will be assured of a parking ticket.

Although the overall grounds are nice, upon your initial walk into many buildings you are greeted by the smell of laundry detergents as the laundry rooms are placed near many of the entrances.

Bottom line: Spend your college money on a different college!