Ithaca College

Everything about this school is average. Most of my professors have no idea how to create a lesson plan, let alone teach. Half the professors go on tangents about random shit that is completely irrelevant. Many of the students spend class time on their laptops playing games or going on Facebook; there's rarely any class engagement or discussion because nobody cares.

The campus center and most of the buildings have the atmosphere of a McDonalds that was built in the early 90's. Buildings are really unattractive, smelly, and poorly maintained.

Don't even think about attending this school unless it's your only choice. Also, work hard in high school so you don't end up going to a college that is AVERAGE, or in other words, shitty.

1st Year Male -- Class 2018

Faculty Accessibility: A+, Education Quality: 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

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