North Carolina State

[Anonymous]

It's great for STEM majors, but the campus is not great. One of their buildings was just featured in the local news for causing a cancer cluster among students and staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's great for STEM majors, but the campus is not great. One of their buildings was just featured in the local news for causing a cancer cluster among students and staff.

Is this affecting anyone’s decision to not enroll in NC State?

[Anonymous]

The campus is not as beautiful as some are looking for but the campus Community is. If you are looking for humble, hardworking kind people, you will find them at NC State. Greater Raleigh is an excellent place to stay post college and my kid had an easy time finding internships as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The campus is not as beautiful as some are looking for but the campus Community is. If you are looking for humble, hardworking kind people, you will find them at NC State. Greater Raleigh is an excellent place to stay post college and my kid had an easy time finding internships as well.

"Humble, hardworking and kind" perfectly sums up the NC State grads I know. Also smart and successful in their careers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great for STEM majors, but the campus is not great. One of their buildings was just featured in the local news for causing a cancer cluster among students and staff.

Is this affecting anyone’s decision to not enroll in NC State?

While it is alarming, and awful for those affected, you better believe that the administration will be hyper vigilant in getting this appropriately addressed. In no time flat expect NC State to be as environmentally aware, safe and compliant as any school in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great for STEM majors, but the campus is not great. One of their buildings was just featured in the local news for causing a cancer cluster among students and staff.

Is this affecting anyone’s decision to not enroll in NC State?

I looked into this recently since my DS was admitted, and I feel comfortable with it. Probably more comfortable than anywhere else, in this regard, because all of the buildings on campus have been checked and cleared, and the building at issue is unoccupied now and will be demolished as soon as the investigation is over. What people don't realize is that any building anywhere that was built in the 50's-70's potentially has a PCB issue. Lots of people around the world have cancer and, chances are, some of those are due to pcb's running through an air system of a building that was built around that time. Being that NC State originates back to the 1800's, they have buildings from probably many different decades. I imagine the same goes for your DC's college campus as well.

[Anonymous]

How is the alumni network in NYC and DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the alumni network in NYC and DC?

From my time there, it seems like the greatest concentration of out of staters are from Virginia, Maryland, NJ, NY and MA; so I imagine there's a sizeable alumni base, especially in DC/NOVA. I'd say over half of my college friends (including myself) are living in the DC/NOVA area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the alumni network in NYC and DC?

it's very large in dc IMO

not so prevalent in the tristate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's great for STEM majors, but the campus is not great. One of their buildings was just featured in the local news for causing a cancer cluster among students and staff.

Is this affecting anyone’s decision to not enroll in NC State?

I looked into this recently since my DS was admitted, and I feel comfortable with it. Probably more comfortable than anywhere else, in this regard, because all of the buildings on campus have been checked and cleared, and the building at issue is unoccupied now and will be demolished as soon as the investigation is over. What people don't realize is that any building anywhere that was built in the 50's-70's potentially has a PCB issue. Lots of people around the world have cancer and, chances are, some of those are due to pcb's running through an air system of a building that was built around that time. Being that NC State originates back to the 1800's, they have buildings from probably many different decades. I imagine the same goes for your DC's college campus as well.

Thank you. Is there a link to any reporting from the school or otherwise that all of the other buildings have been checked and cleared?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The campus is not as beautiful as some are looking for but the campus Community is. If you are looking for humble, hardworking kind people, you will find them at NC State. Greater Raleigh is an excellent place to stay post college and my kid had an easy time finding internships as well.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The campus is not as beautiful as some are looking for but the campus Community is. If you are looking for humble, hardworking kind people, you will find them at NC State. Greater Raleigh is an excellent place to stay post college and my kid had an easy time finding internships as well.

"Humble, hardworking and kind" perfectly sums up the NC State grads I know. Also smart and successful in their careers.

+1 yes! In general, a very enotionally stable and smart group of students.

[Anonymous]

The campus and the buildings are just meh. I have a family member that just graduated as an athlete there and he called non athletes NARPS on campus. Non athletic regular people. Humble is not how I would describe him.

[Anonymous]

I really liked the campus. Why do people keep saying the campus isn’t good? I care more about walkability, having some sports facilities on-campus (I know baseball is right there…basketball?…I gather football is a shuttle), thought the main college quad was nice, etc. liked the commercial area right there.

Any specific problems vs simply one’s personal taste?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The campus and the buildings are just meh. I have a family member that just graduated as an athlete there and he called non athletes NARPS on campus. Non athletic regular people. Humble is not how I would describe him.

your 'knowledge' of 1 out of 34,000 students is quite statistically relevant so your anecdote certainly must be true and therefore should be accepted as a universal truth