GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CAN GO TO HELL!!!
George Washington University made history this week by becoming the first university in the country to raise mandatory tuition costs above $50,000. That's really quite amazing. Do you know why?
BECAUSE GWU IS A TERRIBLE UNIVESITY!
Do you know how I know? Because I went there, and I just misspelled UNIVERSITY. Also, it has mediocre academics. But let me break it down for you. For all you potential G-Dubbers out there in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Long Island, this is what your 50 grand a year will get you:
BECAUSE GWU IS A TERRIBLE UNIVESITY!
Do you know how I know? Because I went there, and I just misspelled UNIVERSITY. Also, it has mediocre academics. But let me break it down for you. For all you potential G-Dubbers out there in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Long Island, this is what your 50 grand a year will get you:
- Overcrowded Classrooms! Although some argue it's perfectly effective to teach International Affairs 50 to 100 obnoxious, copper-tanned New Jersey girls at a time, it's not for everyone.
- Fast Food! Do you like Burger King? Trans Fat? Want to eat it every day at above market prices? Do you like obesity? GW may be for you!
- Terrible Professors! They may have professors who are experts in their fields but working for the IMF for 20 years doesn't automatically make you a good teacher. It just makes you an asshole.
- A Cold, Uncaring, Corporate Administration! When it comes to academia, the main concern should be profit, right? That's what they say at GW. Why hire more permanent faculty when you just buy another hotel? Why pay living salaries to adjuncts when you can just bust their union? Why have an actual Student Union when you can just turn into a money-making conference center?
- More Student-Loan Debt than You'll Ever Be Able To Pay Off! I graduated from GW with a useless bachelors degree in International Affairs and $120,000 in student debt. That's with 10 grand a year in academic scholarships! My monthly loan payments are almost a thousand dollars a month and I'm barely paying off any principal. It wouldn't matter if I felt it was a good investment, but GW was a terrible school. I did find a job and can make those loan payments, but that was only because I was an activist while in college and made contacts that eventually paid off. But I was seriously a hare's breath away from working at Starbuck's like so many other people of my generation who graduated from a 4-year school with insurmountable debt and an utterly useless degree.
posted by POP POP BANG at Tuesday, February 13, 2007
21 Comments:
I cannot fathom how GWU thinks they are good enough to justify these costs.
I would never pay that much to attend GWU. Of course, I'm earning my master's there on my company's dime, so, for me, the price is right.
"Terrible Professors! They may have professors who are experts in their fields but working for the IMF for 20 years doesn't automatically make you a good teacher. It just makes you an asshole."
Holy shit, are you on the nose on that one. Granted, I got my BA and MPH there mainly on my dad's tuition benefits, so I can't complain about the cost, but that point about the IMF/World Bank professors is all kinds of true. I can't count how many World Bank "experts" were brought in to the International Health Policy program to teach us and how little I seemingly learned from each of them. My professor for International Health Economics and Finance was an arrogant prick who rarely even showed up to class because most of the time, he had his little buddies from work come in and lecture. Then, he had the audacity to give my group a shit grade on our final project. I don't want to sound entitled to a good grade, but it's kind of hard not too when the supposed professor didn't TEACH YOU ANYTHING!!!
Sounds like not much has changed in the 25 years since I graduated, except the price ($3,000 my Freshman year).
I hope you can still get quality psyllocibin.
I graduated from GW, too, and I didn't bat a single fucking eyelash when I heard about this criminial tuition hike. The professors are mediocre at best.
My freshman and sophomore year film professor was obsessed with WWE wrestling, and made us all read Mick Foley's biography and we were tested on it. Also, he liked lesbians, so we had to watch female mud wrestling, and on the final identify how it related to film genres. Needless to say, it didn't fucking relate to any film genre. A term we had to identify was "HLA" which, I shit you not, stood for "hot lesbian action." He's not there anymore, but this is the quality of professor you can expect for 50k.
There are more, many, many more horror stories but it would require an entire blog to tell them all.
A huge second (fifth, whatever) to this sentiment. I'm going to law school there and it's no better in our cramped, overcrowded one building (which they arbitrarily break up into five named sections to get more money from donors). GW is the absolute pits, undergrad and graduate both.
With Mr. Henry's, Flipps, Odds and the Crow Bar all closed, where is left for the GWU undergrad to drown his/her woes?
Trachtenberg's last screw-job to the student body before he departs. Then again, what would you expect with a board of trustees packed with real estate developers.
Here, let me add to your GW-induced pile o' woe: It's 'hairsbreadth', not hare's breath!
Who's the only idiot here?
You should have learned spelling long before you came to college.
And the last I checked, GW makes the price tag painfully clear before one actually applies. You knew how much it was going to be. If you weren't getting your dollar's worth, why didn't you transfer to a better, cheaper school?
wow. that stinks. I used to go to GWU before I graduated and fled into the real world...
Not all the Professors are horrible and it isn't their fault the administration is a giant piece of bettle dung. Take a class in the Japanese program if you want some good learnin'. :)
Holy Crap! How the hell have they doubled tuition in like 7 years?
I think the most atrocious thing about this is the fact that what is really best about GW, hell, what they MARKET the most about GW, is it's location. Not it's stellar academics or anything that it can possibly control, but it's friggin address. The kicker is, UDC has a pretty good location too.
There are good profs there (Kevin was awesome!) but like any school, its what you make of it. I personally liked it for the most part. I also will be paying them back for a very long time. But 50 grand? Un be fucking lievable.
"My freshman and sophomore year film professor was obsessed with WWE wrestling, and made us all read Mick Foley's biography and we were tested on it."
Don't talk shit bout Prof. Chibber! It was my only class under 20. The thing that pissed me off was that there were a lot of professors that could have been great if they had smaller class sizes.
All you need to know is i managed a dual major and a minor only because everyone thought my curriculum was someone else's responsibility. I should have claimed a few masters while I was at it.
I wonder how much of that 50k is going to Clark Construction.
Please tell me it can't be this bad. You are frightening me since we are about to undertake the $52,000+ for 4 years. My daughter is starting as a freshman 9/07. I am already frustrated by the fact that they register for classes before they even attend orientation or meet/speak with an advisor. What's up with that?
3 words:
Transferring to Barnard
1) If GW is so terrible, you could have transferred.
2) Since 4 years were "wasted", why don't you try to take some pride in where you went as that seems to be one of your legs to stand on.
To the ones arguing that it was an easy option to "transfer to a better, cheaper school"; rest assured some programs here will actually give you such a workload that will make maintaining a high GPA to transfer into a more valuable university next to impossible. Even worse, many universities will provide tuition benefits/academic scholarships when applying from high-school but not when transferring.
I'm screwed. I'm stuck here for another couple of years. I can't leave because my scholarship offers from other universities will not be there. My motivation is dwindling, and I only hope I don't decide to ditch academia in the coming years for the real world.
To prospective students and parents, don't come here!
"Since 4 years were "wasted", why don't you try to take some pride in where you went as that seems to be one of your legs to stand on."
If you think that where you studied is a valuable measure of value to any measurably valuable organization then you must either work for GWU or are an extremely mediocre person. Experience, intellectual property, this is the real value. George Washington University won't provide the skills or time necessary for either.
I agree. A completely crap value and a good lesson in how terrible university administrators can be. Having previously gone to what I thought was a good school with bad administration, I now know just how bloodsucking these scum are. On top of absurd tuition, they try to leach every dime they can from you in fees. It's nice to be asked for donations from an over-glorified slumlord.
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