<p>Strongly consider the emotional consequences of attending this school. For many smart, motivated people UR is a terrible fit--worse it will become a living nightmare. Please, do your homework before applying.</p>
<p>Applicants can be easily decieved. Small class size, great facilities, fairly strong academics, eerily well-kept grounds all seem great, until you matriculate. If I were considering this school, I would do multiple visits and try my best to interact with the students and compare this to other schools in Virginia.</p>
<p>I feel serious about this. So please, for your own sake, do your homework. Don't just come here because Duke dinged you.</p>
<p>URdefect, don’t you think it is time you grow up and get over your time at Richmond. You come on this board every year around this time (since July, 2007) to bash a school you say you last visited in 2006. It wasn’t a good fit for you, but that doesn’t mean it is a bad fit for everyone else. Yes, every hs senior needs to do their homework and investigate each school they are thinking about attending. Please no more blanket statements. Just move on with your life, for your sake. Get married, have kids, live!</p>
<p>While it is a little ridiculous to keep bad-mouthing a school for four years after you’ve left, some of the things URdeffect has said (I just looked over past posts) are not unfounded. Richmond is not for everyone. That being said, for those who feel at home in UR, it is a wonderful experience. So, yeah, I think he has a point. I saw five people leave last semester… all of whom left with terrible memories of UR. But I also know people who absolutely love it here. </p>
<p>So, students… do your research. UR can go either way: it’s either you love it or you hate it. Make sure you know which one it is before you get here.</p>
<p>I just read through a bunch of your posts; clearly you are nursing an absurdly obsessive grudge regarding this school.</p>
<p>Instead of posting on this site, why don’t you seek some professional help from a sympathetic counselor? Maybe talking through the extreme trauma that attending this particular school seems to have caused you, as opposed to reliving your horror via hate-filled diatribe on a college web site, will result in the closure you so desperately need.</p>
<p>I will concede that it is abnormal to hold a grudge against a University which, to be entirely fair, never wronged me directly. But, I feel like the place is pure poison. I’d like to see it close down or, at a minimum, reduced to a suburban amusement park. UR would make a perfect amusement park. First, it has some sort of history as an amusement park. Second, it is an inherently creepy place.</p>
<p>Furthermore, every suggestion to seek professional help proves my point. By attending Richmond, I ended up paying through the teeth for a horrific experience and longstanding emotional turmoil. Years later, the Richmond Darkness still plagues me. Is this what you want out of your college experience?</p>
<p>UR, whatever emotional effect the experience there had on you simply cannot be projected or predicted for others. This is true of LIFE…think careers, where you live, the church you belong to, people you befriend, your high school, whatever…you can fill anything in the blanks. I accept it was horrific for you, but to “warn” others is simply fruitless. Any one person could have the same experience at any school or job or place they live. It is the unique combination of the person, the place, and how you responded to it. So again, “warning” prospects is meaningless. By the way, our daughter is there, a freshman, and loves it, and can’t name a single freshman who has left UR this year. She just pledged a sorority, is involved in several organizations on campus, attends the football and bball games, gets into DC when she can, loves her professors (well, most of them) and studies “all the time”. She’s made some really good friends. For her, it turned out the way she expected. I am sure that is not true for all. Look for the good things in life, move on and draw a line in the sand. Life is too short for you to dwell on this! Go and find happiness, because it is out there for all of us. Good luck!</p>
<p>URDefect: GET OVER IT!! It has been SIX YEARS since you attended UR. Before you enrolled, did you never go to a single class? Did you not talk to students? Did you even visit the campus to see its setting, population and facilities? You obviously did not do your homework. It is incumbent on every high school senior to research the school they intend on attending. I seriously doubt you gave it much of a go. What one puts into something, they get out of it…did YOU ever give it a chance? That is YOUR fault. Your arguments and statements about Richmond, for the most part, no longer hold true. </p>
<p>By my calculations, you are now 25 years old… realize that you needed to be more proactive in researching potential colleges to attend -and- that you need to take some ownership on why you were so miserable. Please remember this experience when your kids start on their college search! And, hopefully, you will have learned something about yourself, too. Obviously, UR is not for everyone. I hope you had a wonderful experience at UGA. 'Not my cup of tea, just like Richmond was not yours.</p>
<p>yes, i agree with the others that you seem obsessive. 42 anti-richmond posts? three years of hatred on these boards? why? i understand that the school isn’t for everyone, but your loathing seems extreme.</p>