Ithaca College

DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL! Ithaca College has a very shiny veneer with a top notch "administrative" building and focuses on campus visit during the few warm spells that occur on campus. The admissions office does a great job of hiding the massive faults of the school that you will only become aware of once they've fooled you into attending.

If you want a good idea of how horrible this place is, visit it during January or February when then school is truly covered in snow and is freezing cold. This is what it will be like for 75% of the school year. Attending this school means you will only have 2-3 months of the school year where the weather is actually warm.

The dining hall food is abhorrent. Do not eat at campus center dining hall. In my first year, I lost 5 pounds because I wasn't able to properly stomach the food. The saving grace of the food plans are the terrace dining halls. Eat at the Kosher kitchen, it's the only place where the food is moderately palatable.

The campus is a prime example of brutalist architecture from the 60s. Expect big , drab, and dreary buildings devoid of any pleasant architecture. The 2-3 months of warm weather make for a somewhat nice campus, but once the cold weather hits you'll be staying in your dorm.

And did I say dorm? Don't expect to be able to let off steam here by drinking or smoking pot. Your gestapo representative (er RA) will most likely bust you for being either too loud, drinking, smoking, or you know just being a college student. Because god forbid college students act like college students.

The only nice freshmen dorms are Boothroyd. Big rooms. Everything else is once again a drab nasty leftover of the 60s. The towers are somewhat nice. Just make sure to get a lakeside view. The terraces are absolutely disgusting. They were originally constructed as temporary housing in the late 70s. The quality shows.

Once you get old enough to move off campus (because dorms are stupidly over priced) you will deal with a town that is the epitome of liberal idiocracy. Expect 1 am closing calls at the downtown bars, townies that think they're the shit, paying for trash stickers for trash pick up, terrible slow drivers, and crack houses off of seneca street. This is ground zero for every libtard policy under the sun.

Spend lots of time going to Cornell's campus to feel what a real university looks like. Watch them have real concerts and shows come to their venues. Maybe if you're lucky you'll have someone get you into slope day because we all know Ithaca College is too cheap to even bother with getting a real concert or have a real end of the year party. Kendell day, the "unofficial off campus block party" will have cops swarming it and arresting you in the street. Visiting Cornell will make you understand what you are truly lacking at IC.

The Comm school is considered to be "the second best" in the country. This is hogwash. Don't waste your money at this degree mill. If you want to get a comm degree, go to a tier 1 school our west like USC or UCLA or go to NYU. You want to be near the action if you want to get a job in these fields.

You will not be challenged academically at this place. You will learn new things for about a year after high school. After that you will get an excellent BS in Bullshit. IC is the epitome of something trying to be something it isn't. Expect to be surrounded by other mediocre kids who have money and come from Long Island, New Jersey, Mass, and Connecticut.

4th Year Male -- Class 2012

Perceived Campus Safety: B, Useful Schoolwork: F

So let me tell about myself because most people at Ithaca are not as "normal" as I would like to consider myself.(not saying anything wrong with that). I was very social in high school, I played sports but didn't wish to continue in college(if you want to play a sport at Ithaca you can for the most part) and yeah idk just pretty normal you can catch the drift. I would say if the university i went to offered greek life I would join in a second.

Now academically if you like attention ITHACA IS A GREAT PLACE ACADEMICALLY. I did poorly my first semester and the next semester simply went in to my teacher's office hours a few times a week and earned a 4.0. If you want to spend the time to earn grades you will earn them just make sure you go in and see your teachers.

so socially there is no greek life. THE PARTYS ARE TERRIBLE. It is just small houses that let in crazy amounts of people. I've been to over 50 parties and have maybe once seen a form of a dance floor in one. It is just really crowded houses of drunk people talking. I've been able to make a lot of friends because of my social skills so I usually don't have a hard time getting in(everyone will at some point). but this is the worst part, you won't get into any remotely "cool" party unless you know people. Most of the houses that have party are owned by people are sports teams. If your not an athlete your social life is likely to suck. If you like smoking pot good cause that will be your friday and saturday nights. (hence great school for SERIOUS pot heads, if your a poser you'll lose your image of yourself quickly)

so if your looking to have the sweet typical frat life social experience don't make the same mistake I did ITHACA IS NOT FOR YOU.

most of the girls thirst for athletes ridiculously, really hard to get girls if your not a athlete.
i guess it'd be a different experience that i wouldn't know about if i was an athleteso yeah my typing sucks im not that stupid just lazy

2nd Year Male -- Class 2016

Education Quality: A+, Individual Value: F