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| Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Female | This person cares more about Extra Curriculars than the average student. | Intelligence:
Average | | ACT: 28 | | SAT: | | Lowest Rating
University Resource Use F | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Approachable, Broken Spirit, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Unhelpful | Highest Rating
Faculty Accessibility A | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | B- | Faculty Accessibility | A | | Useful Schoolwork | D | Excess Competition | B | | Academic Success | C | Creativity/Innovation | C | | Individual Value | C- | University Resource Use | F | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | D+ | Friendliness | B | | Campus Maintenance | B- | Social Life | F | | Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | F | | Safety | C |
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I
am going into my junior year at Augustana, have almost
a 4.0, am in a fraternity, have met some great
people, and highly recommend not going to Augustana. At Augustana
it is hard to meet people unless you are in
a NCAA sport or Greek life. The overall social environment
is very clicky and immature. A lot of people who
go to Augustana don't seem to be concerned with much
besides when the next party is (where you will undoubtedly
run across a myriad of people high on EX, pot,
shrooms). Most students don't seem to have much ambition to
do anything interesting with their lives after college. Diversity at
Augustana is a joke. I never thought I would care
about (or thought about) diversity before I came here, but
it is really bad at Augustana. It is hard to
meet anyone that is not from Chicago (rather a suburb
of Chicago). This might not mean much, but you soon
come to realize that most people at Augustana are only
going to Augie to have a good time taking the
easiest possible classes, partying as hard as possible, and bullshitting
their way into a job after college. It shouldn't be
hard at college to find people (normal people-not socially awkward
outcasts) to have intellectually stimulating conversations with about politics, religion,
philosophy, the world, etc. but surprisingly at Augustana it is.
I have seen Augustana suck the soul out of some
of the smarter people I know who simply give up
and stop caring. This probably comes from the fact that
Augustana doesn't help you grow as a person; I have
not felt challenged academically or otherwise at Augustana (coming from
a B and C student in high school who decided
to start working at College). Augustana has not really challenged
any of my worldviews. The food SUCKS here. The
housing is expensive and not that great. There is not
much to do if you are not in Greek life.
On tours you will hear all about the great student
groups on campus, but most are just started by people
so they can put it on their resume that they
started a student group and don't really do anything interesting.
Rock Island is not a fun college town because it
is not safe enough to have a fun-small town feel
and doesn't have good enough local food/arts/entertainment scene to be
a fun city college. I have met very few people
working at Augustana (registrars, etc) who are helpful or nice.
Along the same lines, advising at Augustana sucks. Most students
I talk to don't even trust their professors to help
them figure out how to graduate on time much less
give any kind of helpful advice or mentoring about where
to take their lives. The tenured professors are mostly good
at teaching, although I have not been challenged very much.
The college also likes to save money by hiring new
professors for a year who suck at teaching. The overall
feel of Augustana is not that great either. The campus
might look “pretty” when you visit but it is really
small so the buildings all start to look like familiar
prisons after a while and by the end of most
terms I am dying to get away from campus. Even
though a lot of the professors at Augustana are good,
the general education curriculum is not that great. The college
will do anything to screw you over financially and operates
more like a corporation than a liberal arts college (e.g.
you have to pay full tuition to audit or sit
in on a class even though professors get paid on
contract. e.g. they charge you 10 bucks (disguised 3.35 “augie
points” for a lunch consisting of a Cesar salad, a
slice of shitty pizza, and a milk). Trimesters are terrible-they
make your life extremely stressful, don't allow you to go
in depth in any class, and make it impossible to
ever write a good paper (because you never have time
so you turn in a piece of shit paper at
the last minute-which will probably be rewarded with an A+).
The best thing about Augustana college is it's admissions office
who are clearly good at their job because they manage
to make Augie look attractive despite being a terrible place
to spend four years of your life. The only reason
I have not transferred is because of my fraternity, because
it would be suck a pain in the ass because
Augie is on Trimesters, and because I plan on traveling
abroad and spending as little time at Augie as possible.
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