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Furman University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityB+ Faculty AccessibilityA-
Useful SchoolworkB+ Excess CompetitionC
Academic SuccessA- Creativity/ InnovationC
Individual ValueF University Resource UseA
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA FriendlinessB
Campus MaintenanceA Social LifeF
Surrounding CityC Extra CurricularsF
SafetyA
Describes the student body as:
Arrogant, Snooty, Closeminded

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

Female
Quite Bright
Lowest Rating
Individual Value
F
Highest Rating
University Resource Use
A
She cares more about Individual Value than the average student.
Date: May 10 2014
Major: PreMed and Medical (This Major's Salary over time)
Coming from a big city, I wanted to learn a different culture but Furman should have not been the place for me to go. Furman is a bubble, what people DONT tell you is that professors practice EXTREME grade deflation, students are not kind and welcoming to those of another ethnicity, there is NO school spirit, and greek life rules everything. Academics are unnecessarily hard and not worth the expensive tuition. Students wear dresses, suits, cowboy boots, chacos, and jack rodgers everywhere!! If you don't dress like the southern sorority girls then you won't fit in. You will be constantly judge by everyone. The dining hall sucks and there is never anything to eat. If you are from the North or a big city DO NOT COME!!! It's another high school without much diversity. This school is for snobby, rich white children who parents graduated years ago. It's not worth the money so don't waste your time. Don't fall into the beautiful campus, that's all Furman cares about.
 
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I know that Furman has a reputation for being conservative and preppy, but I think that label is overly general. I went to Furman from 2012-2016 as an undergrad, then stayed for another year and a half doing the chemistry master’s. I think that a lot of the conservative Southern students are humanities and social science majors. I’m fairly liberal, and don’t care at all about dressing up - for class or otherwise. I wore jeans/shorts and t-shirts throughout my entire Furman career and felt that this attire was perfect normal in the math and chemistry departments, where I spent most of my time. Although when starting Furman I was a pretty conservative (religiously) Christian, my Furman classes, as well as life experiences caused me to critically examine my religious beliefs, and by my senior year I considered myself an atheist. I had absolutely no problem finding friends who either respected or shared my religious position. (I also did not actively seek these friends out.) In addition, most of the faculty is quite liberal - it is really the student body with a reply for being conservative. I will say, I found the number of students involved in Greek life to be a bit excessive for my personal taste, but I don’t think any student’s social life suffers as a result of them not joining a fraternity or sorority.

So if you’re preppy, conservative, Christian, and rich, don’t write off Furman because you think you’ll be an outcast. If not for my interactions with (some— certainly not all) social science and humanities students, I wouldn’t understand where this stereotype of Furman students even comes from.

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