<p>That’s a CVS in Tenleytown, and there is a shuttle bus to Tenleytown from AU every 20 minutes or so.</p>
<p>There is also a Rite Aid about a block and a half off of campus on New Mexico. Additionally, the Health Center carries basic medicine in its own pharmacy (antibiotics, cold medicine, etc)</p>
<p>I have another question: Does AU of a marching band and if so how good is it?</p>
<p>The CVS on Wisconsin is what I use. You can walk or take the shuttle :)</p>
<p>Is Chase Chase bank the best bank for my D to use as they have a branch on campus? They are not widely available outside of DC, Md and Va. Is using a bigger bank like Wachovia a better idea as they have ATM’s all over the east coast? How much cash do you need on campus since Eagle Bucks are accepted everywhere.</p>
<p>What size are the normal beds in the dorms? Twin or Long Twin?</p>
<p>Everything I have read says that beds are all a standard twin though you can request an extra long if you’re really tall.</p>
<p>Alright good, cause I bought standard twin bedding and then saw in that pamphlet that they sent out to order from them that most of what they were selling said extra long</p>
<p>any good places to get a fake in dc? or any places at all?</p>
<p>Hey I was wondering if the University College program is clique-ish or not? It sounds pretty cool, but I wanted to know if people that do it are exclusive with fellow UC kids or if it is easy/“acceptable”/normal to meet a lot of other people from different places that you are good friends with. Like do kids from UC stay friends with only those people for the rest of college? And does UC make it hard to become friends with other people outside of the UC program topic? Sorry this sounds so weird I know! I was just wondering how other students at AU truly see the UC program and the students within it! Thanks!</p>
<p>My son will be a freshman at AU this fall. He signed up for UC because he wanted to ensure that he had at least one small class. As it turns out, all of his classes are small, ranging in size from 16-45 students.</p>
<p>of course he plans to be friends with the people in his UC seminar–they will be living and working together, and it is just like any other dorm experience where you make friends with the others living on your hall. </p>
<p>And of course he also plans to make friends from all over campus–sports teams, clubs, classes, religious groups, interesting people he meets in the dining hall.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine why anyone would limit their friendships to just one small group.</p>
<p>Yeah thanks I didn’t really mean that I would limit my friendships to that one group because I’m super outgoing and love people and stuff, but it’s kind of hard for me to describe…</p>
<p>I mean, for example, normally you meet a ton of different kids when you are in a random dorm hall because you have nothing linking you. So you meet pysch majors, business majors, medicine majors ect… But if I’m on a world politics floor then I will be with mostly kids that are doing poli sci or IR that I would probably meet anyway just because we have common interests and would probably be in the same school. I like to be friends in tons of different groups, not just ones that are similar to me, so I was more asking if UC was limiting in the sense that you aren’t getting the experience of meeting very different people in your dorms because you are surrounded by people that have very similar interests. </p>
<p>And I was also just kind of looking for a current student’s point of view on how they see UC kids…</p>
<p>Blahhh sorry if that doesn’t make sense, I have trouble articulating this concept haha.</p>
<p>A lot of students select very different UC programs than what they are majoring in. I wouldn’t worry about it! AU seems like it has tons of opportunities to meet different people.</p>
<p>I agree! My son and his roommate are not even in the same school, much less the same major. The UC they are in will help fulfill one of the gen ed areas, but is not either of their majors.</p>
<p>Ahh ok that is very good to know! I kind of thought people went with stuff that they were majoring. Thanks!</p>
<p>boysx3, perhaps you know-- Are roomates grouped by the same UC courses or is just done by dorm?
Thanks</p>
<p>For Hello5 and emma!:</p>
<p>I think (but I am not sure) that students are roomed with others in their UC course because I think I saw something about the TA living with the students in the UC course–I’m not sure if the TA is the RA or just an additional mentor on the floor. I seem to remember that different UC courses were assigned to different dorms.</p>
<p>emma, I’m sure that some students purposely take a UC course in their major area, and that some students deliberately choose a UC course in a different area.</p>
<p>emma, are you an incoming freshman in a UC course?</p>
<p>I’m actually not! Haha but I am a rising senior so I was just trying to get a feel of what UC (and similar programs in other schools) is like…And I really like American so I was trying to understand…Especially because on my tour at AU the guide made it seem a little weird and isolated so I figured here I could get more opinions…</p>
<p>Students in a UC have only one class together. They have another 4 classes that are not in the UC. So it would be very strange if they didn’t have friends all over campus from other classes and activities! And second semester the UC does not meet for class, just for occasional social activities.</p>
<p>My daughter toured American yesterday as part of a school group and liked the college although the tour guide was awful. He cut the tour short, they only saw the insides of the library, no dorms, etc. and he talked very fast. He also told her when she asked about applying to each school and study abroad, “It’s in the pamphlet I gave you”.
I would hope most tour guides are better than this, but it looks like we will have to visit again to get a better look at it.
Any info/experiences on study abroad or advising?</p>