The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Date: Apr 16 2003
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
Okay, I'm just writing to reply to all of these negative comments about how UNC profs don't give a damn about their students and things being to hard and all this other bull…someone definitely put up the good point that if you email profs or go during office hours they are more than willing to help you. If you don't want to be helped then they won't. Another thing is you guys have to face the fact that this isn't high school, you're not gonna get babied through life and held by the hand. College is the place where we develop self-discipline and expect to be challenged. There is nothing ridiculously hard about the bio program, if it was then practically everyone would fail. True there are some people who fail, but most of the time it's those people that don't try. If you show honest effort, and come into to get extra help when you're struggling, most of the time the teachers will have some mercy on you. The programs are simply offering you a challenge to excel and not settle for mediocrity. And why would you want to go to a University that's not ranked? That means they obviously haven't invested enough in their program to be successful. The name of UNC and it's recognition can have a great influence when you try to get a job. Would you hire someone who attended a 150th rank bio program and had 3.2 GPA or someone who went to a top 20 ranked program and had a 3.2 GPA. And to the person that just realized that Carolina was known for it's research and graduate programs, I think maybe you should've figured that out before you came to here. Everyone knows that UNC is one of the top research universities. All you had to do was read it and you would've known not to go here if that's not what you like. Come on people, open your eyes. Quit blaming everything on UNC. If you hate it so much why don't you just transfer out!