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Grand Valley State University |
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Anonymous |
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April 07, 2007 |
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I strongly recommend this college to all prospective students serious about getting a good liberal arts education. The course curriculum offers plenty of options, the campus is beautiful (nice buildings, blooming trees, long skylines) and well equipped (comfortable classrooms in most buildings, plenty of computer facilities, and wireless internet access in many common areas), the departments well staffed, and the student calendar teeming with extracurricular, campus-sponsored organizations, events, and activities.
Advice for Grand Valley "newbies" -- the food at Grand Valley is generally good, but don't fall into the trap of meal plans. They look simpler than the combination of meal-and-debt dollars, but in my personal experience and in that of most students whom I've talked to about it, a straight meal plan (which provides, for example, 7 meals a week every week in the semester) means that you will end up with a lot of wasted meals. Unlike debt dollars, unused meals do not accumulate - they expire at the end of each week - and most students on meal plans have several unused meals by the end of every week.
More advice -- if you can afford it, live on campus. The accommodations are excellent at most price ranges, and there is no surer way to throw yourself into campus life in both the academic and the extracurricular sense. When I lived at home and commuted to college, I had difficulty concentrating on schoolwork once I returned home at the end of the way. When I lived at GVSU, I was confronted with the reality of my college life every time I looked out my campus apartment window. Moreover, I was never more active in the many worthwhile campus activities and organizations that GVSU had to offer as when I lived on the premises. One particular organization brought out management skills that I never knew I had, and gave me dozens of friends that I would never have met otherwise.
Why did I give it an 8 instead of a 10? Well, for those who can afford better (I hate to admit it, but money DOES buy a better quality education) and for those who /know/ that they can diligently keep up with harsher standards, then I imagine that one of the "Ivy Leagues" would produce better results, but for the rest of us with lesser funding or less certainty about our own powers of stick-with-itness (like me), Grand Valley was and is one of the best places to be. |
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| Between 1970 and 1975, the number of law school graduates in the U.S. doubled! Since then, law degrees have been, by far, the most popular graduate degree. |
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