<p>For those of you who are current students (or not), what are the pros and cons of attending UD? I would like to know both so I can make an informed decision.</p>
<p>I'm going to major in economics with english as a minor mayhaps.</p>
<p>Pros: pretty campus, close proximity to philly, medium size, college town</p>
<p>Cons: problems with townies and crime, not ranked as highly as schools like Penn State and Umaryland, weird academic calendar 6 weeks off for Christmas</p>
<p>The unusual winter break at UD can be both a pro and a con. It is a great time to do a study abroad if you don’t want to be away for an entire semester. It is also a good time to work or to take some classes. You can get ahead, or if you are behind in credits, try to catch up. One downside is your spring break is much later than your friends at home and you get out a lot later in May than everyone else. That said, the late finish date has not hurt my son in getting an internship both last summer and this coming summer.</p>
<p>pros: its close to philly, baltimore, and DC. main street has SO many different things that you could need although there are no supermarkets close enough to walk to. </p>
<p>cons: it is a large school and you could feel lost, there is a lot of crime, people are somewhat trashy, long winter break so you dont get home till almost june while your friends have been home since the beginning of may, you have to walk everywhere and its a LOT of walking if you dont like that</p>
<p>Pros: Close town.</p>
<p>Cons: There is a lot of crime, I’m a female soon transfer student and I do not feel comfortable walking at night, even with a big group. The University assumes everyone os from Delaware and vacation schedules are terrible for traveling. No one care about anything but partying, it rains all the time, and isn’t a great academic school.</p>
<p>^ With all the “cons” it’s a wonder any attends. (jk)</p>
<p>Exactly. People who don’t care attend, and others who have to due to financial reasons. I didn’t know any of this when I made my decision last year. And that’s why I’m getting out.</p>
<p>^^ bing didn’t learn sarcasm!
That said,we are OOS and would have been financially better of had DD attended any of her other public or private choices. She has never regreted choosing UD and never had an issue finding friends who aren’t big partiers. Having attended a big city school myself, and now living in a small town, I don’t understand how one could think UD is crimeridden.
Hope you find happiness in Binghampton ;)</p>
<p>Ah I am sarcastic, but also a little bitter. I’ve been pushing through a tough year for me personally, so I apologize for the rough comment. It’s just not the place for me, and do not in any way want to insult anyone who loves the school. Thanks for the good wishes!</p>
<p>Can I assume you were not an honors student? </p>
<p>I think you and the other complainer in this thread are a minority, given that I book I have here (Big Book of Colleges by College Prowl*r, a very interesting book) claims the freshman retention rate is 90%, which is the same as Binghamton. And their 4 year graduation rate is 64%, only slightly lower than Bing.</p>
<p>Also, calling it a large school isn’t quite correct, given that it’s being compared unfavorably to Penn State and Maryland.</p>
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<li>Note Prowl*r is apparently a banned word here, when I spelled it without the asterisk it got completely asterisked out. Odd.</li>
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<p>i wasnt complaining i was being honest! they asked for pros and cons and i gave them. there are good things about delaware, and there are bad things about delaware. its not possible for it to be flawless, NO colleges are. there are always going to be people unhappy at any given school, because certain schools just arent right for certain people. its nothing against the institution itself, but i just have found that this school isnt for me and im sure the girl going to binghampton feels the same. everyone gets so defensive if someone says the most slightly insulting thing and thats being irrational, because no school is perfect. i’m glad you enjoy your time at delaware but i will be finishing the rest of my years at lafayette college, thank you.</p>
<p>I think your current post is a little different from what you may have posted initially. IIRC you posted theat you HATED UD and got into it with someone who enjoyed being there. If I’m wrong, and it was someone else, I apologise.<br>
Not every school is for everyone. I’m sure there are students transfering out of the schools that you and Bing are transfering into who hated it there. One of DD’s HS classmates is at Harvard. Has nothing good to say about it but is sticking it out. You just never know what attracts a person to one school over another. Also, for the future, being critical and insulting are 2 different things. Best of luck at your new schools.</p>
<p>That was a completely different thread. I posted that before i posted on this and decided that i shouldnt have said that on the first post so i was honest, but to a certain extent on this one. You have to understand, you have no idea what this school year has been like for me and i did not let a single one of my friends know that i was unhappy, and so i’m sorry if i had to let it out in one brief moment on an annonymous website, but i couldnt get it out anywhere else. the people that post on this do it for a reason: to get people’s honest opinions. If i was insulting i apologize but i was being honest. If I had asked a question i would have wanted the same for me.</p>
<p>It is true that no one on a board would know of your deep unhappiness which lead to lashing out. I think if you were/are that miserable, it is a mistake not to let someone know. Transferring to another school may or may not solve your problems as rarely is there a single cause for such unhappiness. As there is still a month of school at UD, perhaps you could make a visit to the counseling center? It would be a shame to get to a new school without having dealt with whatever issues you have. Best of luck.</p>
<p>i appreciate the concern, but i believe i said i was deeply unhappy with the school, not depressed, and not in my life besides college. i expressed my feelings to my parents, but a lot of people would have thought i was just complaining so i kept it to myself, no big deal. i’m by no means experiencing problems outside of my unhappiness with the school and nothing that i need to see a psychologist about, and i dont mean it in a mean way but i think that was a pretty rash assumption! im just excited for a fresh start.</p>
<p>Best of luck. But it might help to read a Marylandm(think it is Bruins) transfers posts from a year or two ago. Very similar, but hopefully it works out for you.</p>
<p>Best of luck UDELbluehens</p>
<p>If someone is going to get critiqued for posting their opinions, why would anyone want to post here? All posts have some bias, it’s the readers job to move past that and see what they can take away from it. Both good and bad.</p>
<p>ctyankee: I could not agree more, I find this site very useful,however, I have noticed a tendency of current students and parents to get defensive if something negative is said about their school. (not just UDEL) If I just wanted the party line I would not use this site , I would utilize the school’s own web site. Most people use this site to hear a range of opinions, I do not think people should be attacked for stating that they believe there is something negative about a school. The whole point of this site is to get input from different perspectives.</p>
<p>THANK YOU! sheesh finally haha i go from stating my opinion to being classified as depressed with issues that need to be worked out at a psychologist JEEZ.</p>
<p>I think the problem is not getting defensive when something negative is said. The problem is when someone posts only negative things and almost nothing positive, you know it cannot possibly be a fair assessment. It’s like the person is unhappy and is just looking for things to complain about.</p>
<p>Is it as perfect as some of us would like to think? Probably not. But if it were as bad as some of the people here are saying, people would be leave en masse, which I’m pretty sure is not the case.</p>