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Indiana University - Bloomington

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityC Faculty AccessibilityA+
Useful SchoolworkC Excess CompetitionD
Academic SuccessC Creativity/ InnovationD
Individual ValueF University Resource UseA+
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA FriendlinessB+
Campus MaintenanceA+ Social LifeA
Surrounding CityB+ Extra CurricularsA
SafetyB
Describes the student body as:
Arrogant, Snooty, Closeminded

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful, Condescending

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ACT:32
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Faculty Accessibility
A+
He cares more about Individual Value than the average student.
Date: Sep 30 2014
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
I really tried to like it here. I'm currently a sophomore in the process of transferring.

Administration: The Kelley School of Business faculty are always accessible and ready to help, you just need to ask for it. The professors are outstanding, and you typically don't get any graduate assistants as teachers, you get professors who have worked in their fields and know what they're talking about. Outside of Kelley is where it gets messy. The office of the bursar (financial aid and the like) is a mess, and honestly won't help you at all. Out of state tuition is ridiculous, and the scholarships they give you are a joke, and if I'm not mistaken they just capped it at $11,000 or $9,000 a year for OOS. That leads me into the type of student here.

Student Body: I have never been more disappointed IN MY LIFE. 32,000+ undergrads and it really seems as if you manage to run into every possible douche on campus. Less than 5,000 students are greek here, and yet it seems like they run the school. Either you're a complete douche who brags about how many girls you banged or how drunk you got last week, a total dumbass who drives around in a modified pick up truck without a shirt on (real cool), a girl who wears a polo hat yoga pants and nike trainers every day, a pretentious wannabe hipster (hipster isn't hipster any more-let it go), or a member of the small group of dissatisfied students. Students are either from New York, Chicago, Indiana, or Asia. And the students from New York and Asia drive incredibly nice cars and probably pay the tuition with a stack of cash they leave under their pillow to help them sleep at night. I can't stress enough how trashy the students are here. There's an EPIC lack of diversity. Either you're white, or an asian who can't speak english; everyone else can enjoy being on their own.

Social Life: IU is undoubtedly a huge party school. If you live for partying, come here and you won't be disappointed. If you're looking for something more than downing a fifth and throwing up on the girl you hooked up with last weekend, good luck.

Academics: Despite all the negatives, IU does have incredible academics. The Kelley School of Business is number 8 in the country, Jacob's music school is top 10, and psychology and journalism are also very highly ranked. If those don't meet your needs, IU is such a big school you can actually create your own major. There are a huge range of classes from Managerial accounting, to history of rock and roll, to food as art.

Dorms: Dorms are dorms and the food is pretty crappy and fattening. That's about it. The stereotypes of neighborhoods are somewhat true: McNutt and Briscoe attract the people who want to party and a ton of douches, Collins is pretty out there and artistic/'hipster', central is a bland land of people who wanted to live in McNutt or didn't get into the south neighborhood, and then the south neighborhood is mostly music kids.

If you're not a douche, or someone who is looking for diversity and an interesting and active student body, look elsewhere. I know I am, and I regret coming here.

My personal problem is that the people in my area of study (business) all drool over the opportunity to work for one of the big four accounting firms, make a median starting salary of $55,000, and that's that. If you have any desire for creativity or using the mind for something unroutine, you're one of maybe 10.

 
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responseI can't speak to the business school politics one way or another, but otherwise you are spot on man. I'd like to know what kind of crack the positive reviewers on this site were smoking, maybe we should have been doing some of it ourselves, lol. All joking aside, I don't understand how ANYONE can actually like this University given the kinds of people that flood this "institution of higher thinking and learning." The lack of diversity (as you noted) should mean that most people that are reviewing aren't all that different than us. Oh well, I guess we and the other negative reviewers weren't so lucky. Good luck to you, and hopefully someday someone will realize what a catastrophe the social environment of this school really is.
responseTo add a couple more things, I am from Indiana and can tell you not everyone from here behaves like this, and I don't think the foreign students have it as good as you're saying (and it shouldn't matter if they did). But your overall point is accurate in terms of the social scene, and I'm glad others see that too.
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