The University of Texas - Austin

Date: Apr 13 2015
Major: Physics (This Major's Salary over time)
Your grades will be basically random and not reflect your actual understanding of the material, and professors won't be helpful in fixing them. Some don't even understand the material themselves. The old buildings are falling apart, and you will spend more time in them then you will in the new, nicer buildings (this will bug you, even if you think it won't). You are the cereal number they give you in your acceptance letter for the rest of your time here, few professors will ever know you. I'm a junior and my average class size is still around 150, they say class sizes get smaller, they lie.

Get to know your professors, being friends with professors will get you good grades, I repeat, from someone who has a 3.5 (and should have higher), being friends with professors will get you better grades then studying could ever do (its shockingly bad). No one knows anything, the university doesn't hesitate to cut corners everywhichway they can, even hiring early 20 something's to give career advice (with great tips like: if you want more money to spend, just don't save for retirement). No body on the faculty knows or cares who you are, and all the professors focus on research. Some will get very angry if you go to office hours if they have a deadline to meet. You are not just secondary to their research, but on the bottom of the list of things they care about.

This university is absolutely shocking.