The Longy School of Music of Bard College (StudentsReview)

How this student rated the school

Research Quality	F	Research Availability	-
Research Funding	D	Graduate Politics	F
Errand Runners	C+	Degree Completion	C
Alternative pay [ta/gsi]	D	Sufficient Pay	D
Competitiveness	D-	Education Quality	C+
Faculty Accessibility	C+	Useful Research	D
Extracurriculars	F	Success-Understanding	F
Surrounding City	A+	Social Life/Environment	F
"Individual" treatment	C-	Friendliness	D-
Safety	C	Campus Beauty	C
Campus Maintenance	C-	University Resource/spending	F

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Arrogant Describes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Self Absorbed

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Lowest Rating Research Quality	F

Highest Rating Surrounding City	A+

He cares more about Social Life/Environment than the average student.

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Music - Performance (This Major's Salary over time)
I don't recommend this place. The administration is very controlling and does not care about students. They talk themselves up so well during the audition period and orientation, but it does not take long to see that it is all an act. Any time a concern is offered, the administration just responds with rudeness and they refuse to listen to whatever they do not want to hear. It is no wonder that the faculty chose to unionize because they had similar problems with the administration. Longy is basically a huge state university disguised as a small conservatory.

A lot of the classes are silly and touchy-feely, such as the course Your Personal Best and the EEP program. There is no real learning going on and just amounts to pointless busy work. The chamber program is also horrid and nobody seemed to have any motivation to make it better. Pretty sad since Longy promotes itself as a chamber school.

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