<p>Post 'em here!</p>
<p>I got one with a $44000 scholarship over 4 years (11000 per year)</p>
<p><em>gasp</em> There's actually a post on the Baylor board! It's been what, two or three months?</p>
<p>Anyway, congrats on your acceptance, and on your scholarship! I'm already at Baylor (freshman), so if you have any questions or anything, just send me a PM!</p>
<p>My D was accepted with 40,000 in scholarship money. She is undecided about were she will attend. They are going down to visit Baylor Jan 27 2007.</p>
<p>gymmom2007, my friend is in the same situation. He got 44K divided over 8 semesters but he's still unsure if it's worth it or not. Its really a great school, I've heard, especially for pre-medicine.</p>
<p>I applied because it was free to do so and got in with 34k over the 8 semesters... it seems like a cool place, and the pre-med does seem good, but I really need to figure out if the religion thing is right for me.</p>
<p>Once again, any of you should feel free to PM me with any questions! I'm always glad to help.</p>
<p>As for "the religion thing," well, Baylor is definitely a Christian campus. Thus, there's a chapel requirement and a religion requirement. You need to be comfortable with those, as well as comfortable with being around a lot of people with the Christian worldview. That said, Baylor isn't as hardcore Christian as other schools I looked at (I'm a Christian). There's still a great diversity in beliefs, even if a majority of the people at least profess to be Christian (and beliefs among the Christians vary just as greatly). And I'm in the BIC program (one of three honors programs), which I think is really great, though opinions you get on it will vary. One thing about it, though, is that you don't take straight Christian religion courses, as it is an interdisciplinary core. The instruction on Christianity is mixed in with instruction on other disciplines and even on other religions (which most try not to discuss as "we're right, your wrong," but to look at them -- and Christianity -- historically and objectively, though applying whatever you learned to your life is always a goal). </p>
<p>Anyway, Christianity (especially the Baptist view) definitely seeps into every aspect of Baylor, if only faintly in some areas, so if you decide you're uncomfortable with that, than Baylor probably isn't the place for you. On the other hand, it's not like most people are going to try to convince you to convert, and its definitely not a monastery (one person told me she feared it would be that).</p>
<p>I was accepted with $44,000</p>
<p>what is the chapel and religion requirement?</p>
<p>You need to attend two semesters of chapel, and most take them their fall and spring semesters freshman year. You don't get a grade, but you need to pass (attend 75% of them) those two semesters to graduate. Chapels are an hour long Monday and Wednesday every week. You can learn more about them [url=<a href="http://www.baylor.edu/um/chapel.php%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.baylor.edu/um/chapel.php]here[/url</a>], which also includes the chapel shedule for this semester and a place where you can watch the chapels online. Check it out and see if its something you can live with. I'm a Christian, but I do think some of them are pretty good, and others are somewhat lame or otherwise not so good. (Though I'm a freshman, I'm not taking it spring semester, because of how my schedile worked out. However, I took it last semester.)</p>
<p>As for the religion requirement, I believe all majors have to take The Christian Scriptures and The Christian Heritage, unless you're in BIC. In BIC, you technically won't take any straight religion courses, but some of it will be mixed in with other courses. However, in BIC you do take Biblical Heritage & Contemporary Ethical Issues which I haven't taken, but it seems a lot like a religion course with applications to contemporary issues.</p>
<p>Also, some of Baylor's policies are stricter than non-Christian universities. The on-campus residence halls are all male or all female, or at least they're separated on opposite sides of the building. There are specific visiting hours in which people of the opposite sex can come into your dorm room (or anywhere except the lobby). The hours are much less strict than some Christian colleges, but most secular universities don't have them at all. Also, its a lot harder to get away with drinking - though plenty of people still do it. Obviously, you can get away with more off campus, but most freshman are required to live on campus. None of those regulations are a problem for me, but they're something to know about.</p>
<p>thanks man
it doesn't seem like it's for me but I'll see where else I get in</p>
<p>No problem. :)</p>
<p>Baylor really is a great school, and I know quite a few non-Christians who are very happy with it. However, its definitely not for everyone.</p>
<p>can you tell me anything about the pre-med program?
baylor and bcm aren't affiliated right?</p>
<p>No, Baylor and Baylor Medicine aren't affiliated (though there's a Baylor2 Medical Track which guarantees you admission to BCM - but only like 4 people get it.)</p>
<p>Baylor pre-med is supposed to be really good. I know A LOT of pre-med students (though many will probably drop it by their senior year). I'm not pre-med, though, so I can't give you specific details (though if you really wanted, I could get you in touch with one of the many Baylor pre-med students I know who could tell you what its like). And if there's anything specific you want to know, I could look it up. But overall, I'm not going to be much help, sorry.</p>
<p>hey bookaddict,
Could you tell me a little about Greek life at baylor></p>
<p>What exactly would you like to know? I didn't rush, so I don't know everything, but I do know some, as I have several friends who just pledged this year, and I have a couple of other friends who were already in a sorority or fraternity. (I could probably give you more info about sororities, though, seeing as I'm female and most of my friends are as well).</p>
<p>But the basics? Let's see... I believe the official stats are that 13% of men are in fraternities, and 17% of women are in sororities. So its big, but not humongous. They do have a big presence on campus. They make up a HUGE part of All University Sing, Stompfest, the Homecoming parade (homecoming in general, really), and other large events. However, one big thing is that there is no greek housing at Baylor.</p>
<p>The general Baylor Greek website is [url=<a href="http://www.baylor.edu/student_activities/greek_life/index.php?id=35216%5Dhere.%5B/url">http://www.baylor.edu/student_activities/greek_life/index.php?id=35216]here.[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I didn't know Baylor was that religious. I am a Muslim and I really like Baylor's pre-med program and the classes I don't really mind. Would I have problems there?</p>
<p>I have a friend who's Muslim, and she really likes it here. From my experience, people aren't going to condemn you for being Muslim (of course, I'm sure there are exceptions, but you'll get intolerant people at any university, religious or secular).</p>
<p>I'd say that as long as you don't mind any of the stuff I mentioned earlier (classes, chapel, Christian ideology, visiting hours in the dorm, etc.) and don't mind being surrounded by a good number of Christians, then you'll be fine. Of course, I'm in BIC, and honors people tend to be more liberal, but I still don't think you'll have a hard time overall. Even not all of the professors are Christian.</p>
<p>Oh, and from a PM Twenty8 sent me when I was considering Baylor:
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Personally, I'm Muslim (gasp!) and lean more towards the liberal end (double gasp!), so yeah, there definetly is diversity, but you have to look for it. I'd say the average person is somewhat religious, from a well-to-do family, and doesn't really involve himself or herself in politics. As far as professors go, I honestly can't say I've had a bad one, or one that I felt treated me differently. Actually, in my religion course, my prof. knew I was Muslim and he really appreciated my prescence. There are even a few Jewish professors as well. All in all, it's a mixed bag, but most people are more open-minded then you might think.
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