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| Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Female | This person cares more about Safety than the average student. | Intelligence:
Quite Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: 1370 | | Lowest Rating
Safety F | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful, Arrogant, Condescending, Self Absorbed | Highest Rating
Faculty Accessibility A | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | A- | Faculty Accessibility | A | | Useful Schoolwork | A | Excess Competition | B | | Academic Success | A- | Creativity/Innovation | A- | | Individual Value | B | University Resource Use | D- | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | C | Friendliness | A | | Campus Maintenance | D | Social Life | D+ | | Surrounding City | A- | Extra Curriculars | D | | Safety | F |
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First
things first: I feel like I was duped into coming
to Providence College. Because members of my family were
alumni and had an excellent experience there, I was subject
to biased perspectives from their standpoints. Understandable. What is
reprehensible is how Providence College deceives potential students who come
on campus tours, to Family Day, and even at Orientation.
First of all, if one sifts through the school
website, very little is said about how strict a Catholic
School it is. Namely, I am talking about the
Parietals enforced in all dorms (this means that no one
of the opposite sex may stay in the dorms later
than midnight Sunday - Thursday, or 2am for Friday and
Saturday), the lack of reproductive health care offered to women,
the emphasis on Theology classes(2 Courses) as graduation requirements (99%
of which focus solely on Catholicism), and the broad knowledge
of Catholicism needed to understand the Development of Western Civilization.
Indeed, Providence College excels in hiding all these unfavorable
conditions, which are truly a huge part of the “PC
experience”, from prospective students. Unfortunately, I unknowingly chose to
attend Providence College because of the hefty merit scholarship I
was offered and my admission into the Honors Program.
Now, as a student at Providence College there are a
few 'safe places' which manage to escape total domination by
the administration. Personally, I have been impressed by the
Honors Program, the Political Science Department and the Women's Studies
Department in particular. These safe havens I have encountered
make my stay at Providence College easier, but as a
whole, I am not sure if they are completely enough
to change my opinion of the school. In other
realms of academics, I have been astonished at the ideological
intolerance of many professors (outside of the Political Science and
Women's Studies Departments). In my Development of Western Civ
class, one professor went so far as to firmly assert
that it was a 'travesty' that feminists can't seem to
understand the differences between male and female, and that, although
Eve was created as submissive to Adam that it did
not mean that they weren't created equal. First of
all, as a women's studies student — feminists don't typically
argue that women are the exact same as men.
Secondly, and more importantly, this professor completely used his authority
as a tool for intolerance with total disregard for making
students who disagreed with his viewpoint uncomfortable. This is
only one story... there are many more. Aside from
academics, the double standards applied at Providence College are atrocious.
Within the past couple of years, several students were
expelled for printing flyers concerning abortion as an “immaculate conception”
and posting them in the central academic building. Recently,
an unnamed college basketball star was arrested on assault charges
for attempting to choke his girlfriend IN his dorm room,
AFTER parietals, and, as of yet, he has not been
expelled. Another, more minor example? Students are encouraged
to go to the on-campus bar and watch “Sex and
the City” on HBO but the administration refuses to support
(and largely discourages) the student production of Vagina Monologues, where
all proceeds go toward preventing domestic violence. Another example? Guards
are only present in the all-female, freshman dorms and largely
serve the purpose of enforcing parietals. In the co-ed
dorms and all-male dorms, no guards are present and parietals
are very loosely enforced. Another things? The fine for
breaking parietals is the same as having alcohol in your
room underage. And quite apparently, the police do not
exist on the PC campus because there was 263 Liquor
Law Violations subject to on-campus discipline but O arrests.
Check the PC Security website for details at http://www.providence.edu/Student+Life/Services+for+Students/Safety+and+Security/Cleary+Act+Statistics.htm .
For the most part, students are completely complacent with the
dictatorial nature and “double standards” of the administration. It
is utterly disappointing. Although I am impressed with the
Political Science Department, The Women's Studies Department and the Honors
Program, the administration and student population here make my experience
at PC completely unenjoyable. On the issue of transferring,
I am caught between a rock and a hard place
because 1) it is difficult to get merit scholarship money
as a transfer student 2) credits from DWC don't transfer
well — AT ALL. If you are considering going
to PC, I have one piece of advice. Find
someone who you think is alot like you who goes
there — make sure of it — if they like
it, you probably will. If they don't like it
and you are friends with them, take that as a
warning. Although a large population of students do enjoy
Providence College, they are all the same. Similarly, PC
typically drives away the same kind of student: namely, those
of us who are socially-conscious, politically aware, liberal, friends of
LGBTQQ people, non-drinkers, and/or non-Catholic.
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Responses I am a current student at PC, a second semester freshman to be exact, and have the same opinion you do on all the topics you mention. I find the school to be home to such a "cookie cutter" breed, inflexible in the ideology and not willing to open themselves up to ideas. I do believe the campus has come to become a lilypad to alcohol and that the majority of studentlife revolves around getting wasted all the time. I find the lack of politically-aware students both frustrating and disheartening, though an accurate reflection of how priorities are at this school. Similarly, the likelihood of this all changing is very slim - disheartening and frustrating in and of itself.
So if you don't mind my asking, how are you handling these irritations? I heavily considered transferring, but decided against it for the time being because of the reasons you stated and also the offchance that maybe I am just being rash with the college adjustment process or that maybe I just had too-high expectations for a college.
Nonetheless, any advice/feedback you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! |
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