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Hofstra University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityF Faculty AccessibilityF
Useful SchoolworkD- Excess CompetitionC+
Academic SuccessF Creativity/ InnovationF
Individual ValueF University Resource UseD-
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyC FriendlinessF
Campus MaintenanceF Social LifeD+
Surrounding CityF Extra CurricularsD
SafetyC
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Snooty, Closeminded

Describes the faculty as:
Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful

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He cares more about Campus Maintenance than the average student.
Date: Dec 16 2003
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
Basically Hofstra is a great law school and a pretty good grad school. The undergraduate program is terrible. It is completely ignored by the University administration in terms of funding and innovation. The Core requirement system here discriminates against transfers and makes transfering to this school an incredible excercise in frustration. First you get most of your college level credits, then they tell you that regular liberal arts courses do not fulfill core requirements just because they want you to waste time and money on their intro level la classes.

There are few activities on campus and the social agenda is dominated by a highly homogenous and snobby Greek system that has only 15% of the students but pretty much dominates all the campus events. The Sports Teams and Greeks are given amazing flexibility and are seldom even held accountable for breaking rules and for acts of vandalism and violence on campus.

If you are not a bottom 25% Long Island kid who just wants to get drunk with your friends from high school while stumbling your way through easy classes whose sole purpose is to surprise you at the end with a deluge of busy work to make you fail and pay for them again then DON'T GO TO HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY.

The housing is disgusting and incredibly overpriced. Hofstra is located in a terrible ghetto neighborhood with crack dealers on the corners and drive-by-shootings just a a block away a common occurence. There are also quite a few rapes and robberies on campus, and in some cases by athletes who get completely let off by the school for everything they do wrong.

The worst thing is that they have an incredible PR campaign to convince people who don't live in the NYC area that Hofstra is a "near ivy league" university. The truth is that Hofstra is possibly the worst private university in the U.S.

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Ha wow. SO many worng stats and information. Hofstras greek life is 5 percent of Hofstra population. The msot percentage for a university is penn state at 13 percent. That was a horrible review of the unviersity yet u compliemnt how great teh academics are?
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