Franklin and Marshall College

Date: Jul 22 2014
Major: Economics (This Major's Salary over time)
F&M is an atrocity to higher education. For four years my parents' spent over a third of their yearly income paying my tuition at F&M. I worked my butt off as an Econ major and earned a 2.8 GPA because the professors hold students to an extremely high standard and expect them to conform to their opinions. Several papers I wrote I received bad marks on because I did not agree with my professor's personal views on highly debatable topics. I was extremely unhappy socially, as I had no interest in greek life, which apparently made me a loser by default even though I was a varsity athlete. When I walked across the podium to receive my degree I received an embarrassingly underwhelming applause, while the rich underachieving frat bros had all the girls hooting at them. I never had a girlfriend at F&M, which I know wasn't my fault because I do well with women in any other social environment. After graduation I was unable to find employment for over a year. I had about five interviews during which I was asked about my "low" GPA from a college they had never heard of. I live in New Jersey, so I'm not even far from campus. After working as a table busser at a restaurant for 6 months to fund my expenses, I finally found employment as an accountant for a low-tier used car dealership crunching numbers in a poorly air-conditioned cube of an office. I hate my job and I still live with my parents. When I was at F&M campus housing was atrocious, and when I moved to off-campus housing (College Hill Apartments) they charged my family an unbelievable amount of money for damages caused by other students (ex. $60 to clean a "sticky substance from the mailroom floor" and $100 for "light post pulled out of the ground by sidewalk") because somewhere in the 300 page lease I signed they were allowed to do that. Now my parents can't afford to send my younger siblings to other expensive schools because of the unanticipated dent F&M put in their bank account. I'm ashamed of my experience at this school, and if you read more reviews about this school you'll find I am by no means alone. The new president Dan Porterfield is the best BS-er I've ever been forced to listen to. He is a pro at convincing prospective students that the F&M experience or "mission" is the complete opposite of the reality, making him no better than a lying corrupt politician. Franklin & Marshall College is a despicable place, I have friends who went to Rutgers and Penn State satellite campuses for a tenth of the price and had a highly better and more rewarding experience. I can't even think about grad school right now given the personal debt I still have from unsubsidized government loans I took out to help with tuition. If something in my life doesn't change dramatically then I blame Franklin & Marshall College for my unhappiness and unpromising future. Please, please, do not go here, you will regret it.