Ithaca College

The professors have and will continue to be amazing. They really do care about the students and try to help them succeed in whatever field they wish to pursue.

HOWEVER, the administration is horrible. They give money and support students, but only select ones. These students are given special treatment when registering for classes and in getting into labs. While they insist they want people to take classes outside the major, they use the honors minor to give students special treatment. If you actually listen to them and try to do a double major or classes outside of a busy major, you must rely on being a favorite of the professor teaching the class or hope honors students do not get the course.

Also, the school pretends to be more environmentally friendly than they really are. Natural lands would be gone had a professor not found a way to make them somewhat profitable. NY state standards are about similar for gold LEED rating, so the touting of gold buildings is meaningless. Food is rarely bought locally, and the company used to run dining halls actively tries to stop students that want to from organizing to get deals on local foods.

And finally, you better like sports. Instead of doing things that would upgrade outdated systems in dorms or buildings, Ithaca used the money to build a giant eyesore of a building for athletics. It literally looks like a middle finger pointing towards Cornell. Meanwhile dorms built in the 1950s are inefficiently using energy and driving up costs for the college. They also destroyed a natural wetland in order to build the giant middle finger.Really, Ithaca has some awesome professors and cool students. You will get a good education. But the school is run just like a corporate. Give us your money, take whatever you can fit in, and if you are a student leader that doesn't like it, we'll put you in honors program so you don't complain about it.

1st Year Male -- Class 2014

Collaboration/Competitive: A+, Individual Value: F

Okay everyone, I'd like to say that my time at Ithaca has been the worst in my life. People here were relentless in bullying me because they thought

a)slow
b)weak and alone(which I was) and overweight
a)I was actually in the honors college for Ithaca but I felt that many of my peers thought I was mentally handicapped for not being outgoing like other students-never mind that all my tests were A-B. Both the faculty and students were very rude and condescending towards me as a freshman while I was there.

I remember working in a lab with some complete idiot and I did not know one of the answers. This slack-jawed fool then went to the TA and said "well maybe she's just too dumb". I didn't say anything because I was too hurt and outraged that some retard like him could say that to a TA and then have the TA laugh!? Not even in middle school would this have happened.

The students here know IC is a dump and pretend to be smarter than the rest of the kids here-not so. Everyone is so critical and judgemental while being boarderline brain-dead themselves.

Second, faculty have a low opinion of you too. They are absent-minded and bully you just like the students. I actually had a professor bully me because of my weight. Disgusting.

b) when I came to IC I was slightly above normal BMI but thats no one elses concern right? WRONG. IC has some of the meanest girls living in the dorm rooms. I remember one night some awful girl started screaming at me through my door. Screaming obscenities and all this crap about me being a "fat b*#*@". Everyone in the hall heard what was going on but no one did anything. No one talked to me afterwards or reported this demon from hell to an RA.

I had to suffer in silence for six months with witches living in the dorm-constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY messing with me.

Not to my surprise many other girls in the overcrowded dorms were in tears after about two months anyway from all of the bitchiness and drama. DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA.

IC is alot like high school but can be even worse at times because there is even less adult-supervision-and its expensive. I really recommend going to a community-college for one or two years to save money or just going to a larger college. Students with the few neurons that these girls had jammed tightly together is a receipe for DRAMA and misery.

You've been warned.

1st Year Female -- Class 2013

Perceived Campus Safety: A, Social Life: F