(UNCA-Asheville) I am from WNC so I knew the Asheville

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	B	Faculty Accessibility	B
Useful Schoolwork	A	Excess Competition	A-
Academic Success	A-	Creativity/ Innovation	A+
Individual Value	B	University Resource Use	B-
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	B	Friendliness	A
Campus Maintenance	B+	Social Life	D-
Surrounding City	C-	Extra Curriculars	D
Safety	A

Describes the student body as: Afraid Describes the faculty as: Friendly, Helpful

Male

SAT1760

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Social Life	D-

Highest Rating Creativity/ Innovation	A+

He cares more about Extra Curriculars than the average student.

Date: Jan 24 2013
Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time)
I am from WNC so I knew the Asheville area coming in. I screwed around in high school and ended up with a 2.8 gpa from never doing homework and studying for a test maybe twice. I had a decent SAT which got me another chance.

I was accepted to Alabama, FAU, FIU, and Arizona State and recieved scholarships from the last 2. I love the Crimson Tide and Bama was my dream school. However, after not trying in high school I felt I didn't deserve to go to such a place until I earned it. So in JUNE after graduating, I applied to UNCA and was accepted no problem.

The academics and professors here are actually very good. They make sure you learn and show it, I have had almost no multiple choice tests. The main problem with UNCA is the social life. People literally will avoid talking to you. Where I come from you say hi to pretty much everyone, hold doors for people especially women, etc. Here people just try to avoid all contact. I try to talk to people in louge areas and they get all uncomfortable. There have been 3 people that could actually have a conversation.

I lived on campus at first but switched to commuting because I was miserable (South Ridge is the most anti-social dorm). Also, school spirit is absent. Having no football team I can kind of understand it but even our basketball team gets almost no support. There are MAYBE 20 clubs, most of which are LGBT or other rights movements. The majority of people here are tree-hugging super liberals. I have no problem with liberals at all, but anyone extreme is just annoying. I wouldn't want to hang out with super-right wing people either.

BTW the "diversity" people are so proud of here, is not diversity. Diversity means lots of differing people, here its just alot of wierd people.

Responses

Could you perhaps transfer to Bama? My son is a sophomore there and loves it. He's not Greek yet still has great friends through religious and social groups. (We're from NC, BTW.)

I hope things look up for you!

Be glad you're not in the Art/New Media department. Everything you wrote about people not wanting to talk to you applies, but worse, because everyone's in constant competition. If you have anything even remotely nice art-wise, you will have no friends in this department. And the instructors are terrible, don't know what they're talking about on a lot of things, and outwardly chastise and belittle students. Basically, it's a department full of pretentious, mean individuals who don't want anyone else to succeed. I commute too. So far I haven't seen much that's good about this school, but I can't afford a real art school, so what do you do? Roll with the punches, I guess.

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