Eastern Michigan University

Date: Aug 09 2015
Major: Linguistics (This Major's Salary over time)
My experience at Eastern taught me to be even flexible and keep working toward my goal. I got help from scholsrships and financial aid. They met with me and my parents every year to be sure that I got what was coming to me. I recommended Eastern to my daughter, but her experience with the school has been negative. She loves her professors, but has been sick from pot smells in the dorm. Her Junior year was rough and I found the administration unhelpful. She had bedbugs in her university apartment. The nest was in the university furnished sofa. She did not get the normal bedbug certificate and it took all day for her to get her keys on move-in day. She was moved to a different apartment, but still accrued $2000 in expenses. At the same time, her campus job hours were taken from her and given to a work study student. Financial aid has refused to give me a meeting regarding my daughter's award. I don't feel my daughter is getting all award money she is entitled to. The tuition also went up 7.8%, but I saw no on compensation in her financial aid package. This should be my daughter's last year. The school seems more concerned with attracting new freshman than helping returning students finish. This year, my retired husband and I (a lead teacher at a non-profit school for homeless youth) will need to go deep within our pockets and into our retirements to make sure she finishes because she is too fsr into her program to transfer to a school thst is less greedy and more ethical. Eastern has changed so much since I was a student!