<p>Hey everyone, I'm currently a freshman at Delaware..I'm in their honors program as well...if you have any questions I'll be completely candid and honest with you...I'm actually transferring at the end of this year to hopefully FIT in NYC...so ask away!</p>
<p>haha, so why are you transferring?</p>
<p>Well I'm transferring for a number of reasons. But the main one is that I've lately become really into interior design and Delaware doesn't offer it as a major. I've made a lot of great friends at Delaware, but I still find myself home almost every weekend (which is an annoying 3 and a half hour drive). I did not do so well first semester, due to reasons I don't even know lol...I'm not the partying type or anything, which warning almost everyone is. Also as far as the honors programs go, the general feeling among fellow student is that honors classes are generally easier than regular intro's. My GPA was not the best and as a result, I wasn't allowed to take any honors courses this semester and more importantly, any chance of the honors certificate at the end of soph. year was gone. I definitely had a hard time first semester, and I still do not know why, by the honors program director was less than sympathetic. So if you're GPA is under a 3.0 after first semester (which, let me assure you is very easy), Good luck trying to take honors courses the next semester. The computer scheduling system will screw you over and when you try to get human help, you will get shut down and have to hurry to register for replacement classes. Blah, I'm just venting.</p>
<pre><code> But, I will say this. Many students are incredibly happy at Delaware. There are some majors where you don't have to do any work, and some where you will be working all day to maintain a 3.0. However, I find that the student who is having the best time is usually the one partying every night of the weekend. UD is seriously cracking down on alcohol, with undercover cops at parties and waiting outside dorms to catch drunk people. Also, someone mentioned something about sororities. I rushed, but then decided it wasn't worth it because I was transferring. There are a bunch, and they have so many different personalities. You need at least a 2.2 to rush. But they won't take you unless you pretty much have around a 2.7.
I'm serious when I say that I will answer any questions you have objectively, because I know that many people enjoy the school, and that it also wasn't a complete waste for me.
Those of you who do decide to attend, a word about roommates. OK so I was stuck with the roommate from hell. literally. My current best friend actually lives across the hall so I'm in there more often than I'm in my own room. My advice here is to request a specific roommate if you meet ANYONE you like down in Delaworld. They don't read the surveys, and only a handful of people I know can actually stand being in their rooms.
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<p>I think the school is wonderful!! I have many friends, the food at the pencader dining hall is great, and classes and teachers are VERY NICE!!! I am doing great with a 3.5 GPA and I am in a secondary education major. I especially enjoy weekends at udel, there are many parties...yes the cops are trying to crack down on them but still with over 10000 parties friday and saturday, its pretty easy to get into one. Delaware is a little bit of a party school but even if you dont like partying a lot of people just chill around the dorm and watch movies and stuff. I live 5 hours away from the school and i barely go home, but i def dont complain - i rather not go home!! haha</p>
<p>My only complaint is that UDEL is AWFUL at roommate selection. They placed me in a triple with two girls opposite from me. And the school is bad at letting you take the classes you want and at the times you want. I had to do a lot of drop/add this semester. </p>
<p>Overall - go to udel it is the best!!!</p>
<p>oreogirl....do you live in the towers?</p>
<p>I live in Thompson on East Campus.</p>
<p>so i've heard the dorms aren't too great. true?</p>
<p>The dorms are fine.</p>
<p>here's a question.</p>
<p>Im already in. Does UD check your end of the senior year grades and not let people in as a result? Or do they just say that? Obviously I'll pass alll my courses this year. Ill probably even have an A in one. I just wanna know if I need to continue trying at school.</p>
<p>Another question (from a mom of a prospect) - is there a dance program or are there dance classes at UDel? If so, what style? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>It depends on which dorm you live in - the freshmen dorms arent too nice like rodney and dickinson but they are really social
but dorms like ray street or george reed are really nice but not that social..so really its whatever you rather have</p>
<p>You have to send a final transcript at the end of the year.</p>
<p>question: is it easy for a freshman to get a single room?</p>
<p>what is the advantage of being in the honors program?</p>
<p>Since you asked about the honors program, I am assuming you're asking if it would be easy to get a single as an honors student. I'm currently an honors student and all honors freshman reside on East Campus, in either Thompson, Lane, or the Russell Complex. I don't believe there are many, if any singles available to honors freshmen. Russell even actually has a lot of forced triples. However, on West Campus, there are a lot of students forced to take singles since demand for doubles is greater than the amount of rooms. I have a few friends on West Campus in singles, and they love them and are very happy it ended up that way. So I am assuming if you request a single on West and you aren't in the honors program, it is likely you will get it.</p>
<p>The UD honors program is extremely difficult to get into, so there is a lot of prestige attached. There is the benefit of smaller classes, with more professor interaction. In the introductory English and colloquium, there is a writing fellow attached, who individually sits down with each student and discussed how to make your paper better, and things of that nature. The upperclassmen honors housing is supposedly very nice too. I think the main benefit of the program is the smaller classes.</p>
<p>Well, you asked for questions, so here's on odd one. I was reading the online version of the student newspaper today and in a story discussing various student fines was this gem:
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Junior Lydia Hume, a resident assistant in Smyth Hall, said at the beginning of the week there is an e-mailed report sent to all RA's concerning the past weekend's activities. Invariably there are notes concerning additional housekeeping charges for inappropriately placed human waste in either the bathrooms or hallways. "It's a shame because it may not have been the residents but a guest that did it," she said. Sophomore Tyler Stambaugh said he was charged an excessive housekeeping fine after the hall director in his dorm discovered feces on the floor. The guilty party did not turn themselves in, forcing the floor to split the fine.
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<p>Can I possibly be reading that right? "Inappropriately placed human waste" is a recurrent problem in the dorms? At first I thought it was an April Fool's thing, but no, the story is from the March 21 issue. What in the world?</p>
<p>This is not a recurrent problem. Believe it or not, this happens at a lot of schools once a year. College kids are crazy cats. It looks like the admin did a good job of handling an awkward situation.</p>
<p>I would have normally thought that, but then the story talks about a weekly e-mail report that "invariably" contains a mention of inappropriately placed human waste.</p>
<p>Any advice on choosing a meal plan?</p>
<p>about the meal plan-</p>
<p>everyone is completely different, so it's a good thing that the school gives you one chance to change ur existing plan during the drop/add period for classes...take the first week to see what u really want, of course its going to be hectic, but really give it some thought. first semester I had the 10 meals option, and I barely ever used all of the meals. The points are really valuable because they work at trabant and the scrounge and also the marts. I feel its a better idea to get more points and cut back on the meals because if worse comes to worse you can always but a meal with points, but you can't use a meal as points. I know some students get the biggest meal plan, is it 20 meals a week?, and they actually eat every meal. But, I, like most college students have an extremely hard time waking up to get breakfast in time, so factor that when you are considering. Meal plans are the better value, because it is pretty much all you can eat, and they are worth a lot of points. But if you're on the go a lot and don't have a fixed schedule, I would recommend getting a plan with more points...but in the end, it's all personal.</p>
<p>can students get access to work out 24/7? I heard we get cards that can let us into the buildings.</p>