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Merrimack College

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Describes the student body as:
Broken Spirit, Snooty, Closeminded

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He cares more about Academic Success than the average student.
Date: Jun 11 2008
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
In a nutshell: please do not waste your time at this school

Longer Version:

  • The campus:
  • pretty small a student body of ~2100 at the time I attended 01-05. The place is misreable, there is nothing whatsoever to do here. Fr/So were not allowed to have cars on campus which sucked even more gladly I was a commuter. The ground are not very well kept, there is a disgusting fake pond outside the science building. The library is poorly lit, dusty, and dated. Most all the buildings as well are spartan and not very well maintained. The student center will keep your interest until about spring break of your first year. In brief, the dorms are filthy digusting! You wont feel bad if you end up throwing up on the floor after a night of heavy drinking.

  • Teachers:
  • Not half bad, fairly easy to communicate with in the science department. BUT here is the real problem with merrimack, the student body is so stupid that often the teachers never can get through the syllabus, the students feel there being pushed too hard, OMG i have too much hw!! The teachers become overly disenchanted that they have choosen to dedicate their careers to teaching but can't really do it. By that point the teachers stop caring the few students who do want to learn cant…its just a very bad cycle that merrimack has fallen into.

    Academics:

  • pretty much non exsistant, dont bother being a science major, you wont get a job and you wont have easy access to grad schools either
  • med schools dont even know what merrimack is
  • The business program has NO accreditation
  • Social life:

  • GREAT, if your idea of social is drinking, playing X-box the going to sleep. There is an occasional party, and that is broken up very quickly by the prison guards, err I mean the wonderful public safety department. The school is located in North Andover, and really might as well just be North Andover High School part II. Being a north andover resident, you will have some of your old classmates with you, along with kids that come from similar communities from around MA/RI/CT. Thats another problem there is no diversity at this school, like 95% white new englanders…boring, and not in the least bit close to the real world.
  • stuff around merrimack include a bunch of crappy old bars, they are all miserable and mostly old people. Even Boston doesnt have the best nightlife but better than North Andover.
  • Bottom Line: Merrimack costs ~$40K/yr most any school costs that amount of money, for the love of god please visit other schools, there is no reason to go to merrimack. and if thats the only place you got in? Well either your not smart enough to go to college, (which is ok) or you are about to do something stupid and pay 40 grand when you could do the first two years at any community college and get the same if not better education. make the right choice and avoid the 'Mack.

    Responses
    I am quite dismayed by the many negative comments. I can only assume if they are true then there has been quite a change at Merrimack. Granted it has been a number of years since I graduated from Merrimack (1974); I was a chemistry major. The chemistry department throughout the 70s and 80s under the guidance of the chairman Ronald Pike, PhD was well respected. On a yearly basis chemistry majors went on to outstanding graduate schools including MIT, Johns Hopkins, Brown, University of Maryland etc. I myself after graduating from Merrimack earned a Masters Degree in civil engineering from Tufts University in one year and then an MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 3 years. My sister also a chem major and graduate of Merrimack (1975) went directly to UMass Medical School and earned her MD. Again I wonder how much has changed at Merrimack? The professors I had in the dept of chemistry were some of the best educators I have encountered in my career. I do agree that the community is rather small and not much to do. I was a commuter and had a car so Idid have opportunities to go into Boston or to the seashore in New Hampshire and Maine. As are some of the other commenters I am not a drinker; and I do feel that too often social life at Merrimack was centered around getting drunk or getting high. I would also probably agree that the hockey players thought they were "King #&$#" on campus; of course at time it was about the only "major sport" at Merrimack. Finally I would just say that too often students complain about their school, and feel that other schools are so much better. Students need to assess what they want in their academics and choose wisely where they matriculate. For me, Merrimack College was the right choice and it served me well.
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