The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

This school is way, way, way overrated. Don't come here unless you're 100% sure of what you want to do, because this is a very bad place to try to "find yourself." You will have to fight like crazy to get even the slightest amount of personal attention -- advising is a total joke, or non-existent; most professors won't bother to learn your name because they simply don't care; and good luck finding a TA who speaks passable English. I deeply wish I hadn't gone to UNC -- don't buy all the hype, this school is not as good as the giant propaganda machine would have you believe!

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

3rd Year Female -- Class 2005

Perceived Campus Safety: A, Individual Value: F

The education I received at UNC-CH was of very poor quality. My classes were far too large, and teaching assistants do far too much of the teaching. Professors here truly don't care about students at all -- everything revolves around research. The bureaucracy is huge and frustrating, and too much money is invested in things like posh internet lounges instead of improving the quality of undergraduate instruction. The political climate is hyper-liberal, and there is almost no tolerance for the conservative, or even moderate, viewpoint. Professors are obsessed with ultra-political-correctness and left-wing academic jargon, and things like "how post-colonial discourses and methodologies have shaped and engendered primorial idenitites and a trans-national perception of self and sexuality." In other words, nonsense and rubbish. Too much time is wasted on pseudo-academic work that has no redeeming value or use whatsoever. Out-of-staters beware --this is not some "public ivy," it is just a state school whose prestige is declining drastically, and which regards undergraduates as cash cows, not human beings. The current chancellor exemplifies the spirit of total indifference to anything having to do with undergraduate education. Don't go here! You will regret it! Unless, of course, you enjoy being treated like a number...

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000