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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a junior at FU. It is a Jesuit university with about 5,000 undergraduate students. Academically average with about half of applicants being admitted, most recent class has a 33% acceptance rate because of space issues.

In all honesty, I would not go to FU. I only went because my parents are alumni, and I commute from a short distance away. If you intend to go to grad school or be in college for many years, it doesn’t make sense financially. FU is really expensive for no reason, and aid awards are not great.

For those reasons, the students here are mostly white, weathy, and spoiled from New England, mainly New York, MA, CT, RI. The environment is incredibly cliquey, I have no friends or peer connections whatsoever. Now I will say gen z struggles socially which makes sense, but in general the school is just too small with not enough students. The good ones who don’t form cliques, are on their own studying.

The campus is really nice and there are some great professors and class sizes are small, which are some pros. But campus wise, there isn’t much that happens. If you do have free time, there’s nothing to do.

Similar to a private high school. Police presence is common and parties are broken up. Seniors live on the beach, but you have to know people to rent property. In other words, no party scene at all. The school is academically focused.

Food is meh. There’s the Tully, levee, and food trucks next to a parking lot. Nothing really special, just what you would expect.

Due to aforementioned police presence, the school is very safe which is another pro. I haven’t experienced crime or have seen another student put into danger.

Academically, the only stand out degrees are anything business related and nursing. There’s no need to come here otherwise unless you are rich or only care about your grades.

There are clubs but most are pretty boring. You might not even find any that you are interested in, and the available ones may have low attendance.

I’ve never felt so isolated. I’d recommend going to a cheaper and larger school with more going on. [/quote]

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