Linfield College - McMinnville

Date: Dec 07 2016
Major: Language - French/Spanish/etc. (This Major's Salary over time)
Linfield College was not my first choice but after receiving an extremely generous financial aid offer from them, I decided it was much too good to pass up. I will divide the following review into pros and cons.

Pros

They do an excellent job at matching you with a roommate. My roommate and I got along extremely well and although we both don't attend the university anymore are still great friends.

The faculty has office hours and make themselves available to you. I have had professors go out of their way for me.

Small class sizes are a plus, I didn't have any class with more than 18 people.

Cons

McMinnville, is a terrible location for a college. I was out of state with no car so I was unable to go anymore. The public transportation is certainly lacking. Despite Linfield being close to downtown it was quite far from larger stores such as Walmart.

The population of Linfield was largely homogenous. As being a minority from a diverse area of the country it came to a shock. In addition the student body was very conservative minus a few people.

Many students had cars and the campus would become dead on the weekend from students going out or going home.

The food is awful. I have gotten sick multiple times from it. There are only three places to eat: the main dining hall dillin, wildcat express, and starbucks. The hours on campus are really weird and off especially on the weekends.

Freshman are made to have the unlimited meal plan first semester, I found this unnecessary.

The fraternities had houses yet the sororities didn't. I found this quite odd.