Berea College
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Educational Quality | F | Faculty Accessibility | F |
Useful Schoolwork | F | Excess Competition | C |
Academic Success | F | Creativity/ Innovation | F |
Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | F |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | C | Friendliness | F |
Campus Maintenance | C- | Social Life | C |
Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | C |
Safety | D | ||
Describes the student body as: Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful |
Lowest Rating Educational Quality | F |
Highest Rating Excess Competition | C |
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
I would not recommend Berea. There is an underlying attitude toward students, kind of a missionary or liberator attitude toward the "poor hillbillies" and the "po' blacks" that clearly communicates that every student should be grateful for whatever they get from Berea and not make any demands or expect anything different. As a matter of fact some faculty will go out of their way to make this point by closing off opportunities, or by belitting a student in front of peers. The town does not exist so if you can't do it at the college don't count on doing it. Lots of restrictions and limitations, all in the interest of the student, of course. But it's "free," right? Wrong. We did the math and found that I can go to any number of other colleges without the attitude for about the same amount of cash out of pocket. Meanwhile I can work for $10/hour instead of the measly $3.50/hour Berea pays its students. Thus I can better afford to go wherever I want. Just an all around bad experience, unless you like being treated like the po' little minority who doesn't know anything and couldn't possibly make a decision for him or herself.