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[quote=Anonymous]State flag ship grad here that had a terrible experience; especially, compared to friends that went to a SLAC.  I declared a major I was semi interested in and never got advising outside the initial consultation without needing to drive back to campus over the summer.  I learned in last semester of my senior year that my major had different focus areas you could choose that helped put you on a track for specific careers. Once you had a major, the school seemed incentivized to simply get you to graduate while utilizing school resources as little as possible.

In addition to the above issues with my major, I tried to add a different major in the same college that was an absolute mess.  Even though I added it in line with all the deadlines, I would have had to take one class in what should have been my second semester of senior year then come back for one semester to take two more classes to graduate.

Finally, it was very confusing about how to take classes at other colleges (e.g., business, journalism, engineering, comp sci schools).  A lot of these classes were simply shutoff to students that weren’t in these colleges/majors and course descriptions implied that you couldn’t really take certain intro level classes.  In addition, the University didn’t allocate resources amount the colleges evenly… if USNWR ranked your major/college (e.g., business school) then it got a lot more money and resources even if it didn’t bring in money to the school (looking at you journalism school).  The school also limited slots to these schools to make them more competitive seemingly for the sake of making them more competitive (e.g., requiring calculus for an undergrad business major but to get an MBA you didn’t need to take specific math classes).

Dealing with the school was like the DMV on steroids.[/quote]

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