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Major: Sociology (This Major's Salary over time)
Gender: FemaleThis person cares more about Academic Success than the average student.
Intelligence:
Bright
ACT:
SAT:
Lowest Rating
Useful Schoolwork F
Describes the student body mostly as:
Arrogant

Describes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful

Highest Rating
University Resource Use A
How this student rated the school:
Educational QualityC Faculty AccessibilityC+
Useful SchoolworkF Excess CompetitionF
Academic SuccessF Creativity/InnovationC
Individual ValueF University Resource UseA
Campus Aesthetics/BeautyB FriendlinessD
Campus MaintenanceC Social LifeF
Surrounding CityC Extra CurricularsF
SafetyF
 
Everything I rated is for the School of Mass Communications.  After having been completely disheartened and beat down, I decided to change my major in my senior year.  A handful of teachers have been excellent and caring but most of them assign ridiculous busy work and pointless activities.  VCU should be called Hassle University.  Every.  Single.  Time.  I wanted or needed to do something they “required,” an impossible hassle ensued.  If you work full-time, forget VCU.  Either go to another school or try to work part-time.  With the amount of classes they don't offer, you'll never get through it in 4 years.  Most of my friends have been here for 4+ years because of the lack of availability of core classes required to graduate.  Just another VCU hassle!

My advisors in the School of Sociology, however, have been readily available and so much more helpful than any advisor I spoke to in Mass Comm.  If you're in the school, beware that you have to apply to get in to MASC 203.  Yeah, you have to apply to get into a prerequisite.  I found that utterly ridiculous and unnecessary.  And they don't tell you that until after the deadline.  So just a heads up!  And if you decide to major in Mass Comm, get used to every single teacher telling you that you won't get a job, you'll be fired from every job you do get and you'll only make 15,000 a year.  I heard that in my first Mass Comm class and most classes since.  I finally took it as a warning and left the school. 
 
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