(LUM) Like with all schools, there are two major aspects

Educational Quality	B	Faculty Accessibility	B+
Useful Schoolwork	A-	Excess Competition	B
Academic Success	B-	Creativity/ Innovation	F
Individual Value	F	University Resource Use	F
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	B+	Friendliness	C
Campus Maintenance	B	Social Life	F
Surrounding City	C	Extra Curriculars	C
Safety	B

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Creativity/ Innovation	F

Useful Schoolwork	A-

He cares more about Individual Value than the average student.

Date: Oct 02 2011
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Like with all schools, there are two major aspects to consider before enrolling: academics and social life. My experience at Loyola, academically speaking, has been positive. My classes are engaging, my professors (with the exception of a couple) are helpful, kind, knowledgeable, and I?ve learned quite a lot in the short time I?ve been here. I respect the academics, even though I?m not a fan of the core curriculum, and I have no regrets in that respect. All in all, if you come to Loyola, no matter what your major is, you?re likely to take away at least something from the classes you take. But then there?s the social life. Oh my God, the social life at this school. I knew before I got to Loyola that the school was going to have a lot of wealthy, preppy assholes, but I remember thinking to myself, ?Well, I?ll just ignore that part of the student body and find the people who are more interesting and independent.? But I didn?t know that those rich, preppy kids are not in fact part of the student body, they ARE the student body. I challenge anyone to find a more homogeneous student body than the one at Loyola University Maryland. Seriously. Everyone here is a carbon copy of one another. The word ?individual? is meaningless. I can?t even step outside my dorm room without seeing another douche bag wearing boat shoes and salmon-colored khaki shorts, stumbling around drunkenly, looking for some retarded blonde girl (an ideal counterpart) to grope. It?s not surprising, however, that these students are so alike. The reason for this is that a LARGE number of the students that go to Loyola came from northeastern prep schools; and they came to this school with 10-15 other students whom they already know, rendering the initial friend-making process of beginning college not a problem for them. For someone like me, however, who came from a public school, not knowing anyone, finding friends has been very difficult. I have, luckily, made some friendships -- but only with people I don?t have that much in common with, for the sake of having friends at all. If you?re not like the typical Loyola student and you want to make friends, you?re going to have to lower your standards a little; otherwise, you?ll be alone here. Loyola is a fairly reputable school, and the kids have to be at least somewhat intelligent to get in, but honestly, I found that they are even less intellectually curious than the kids from my crappy high school. Do not come here if you are looking for a cerebral student body. Do not come here if your idea of bonding with other people does not mean going to some shitty bar on York Road and getting totally wasted together. If you are quiet, creative or introverted, then stay the FUCK away from this school. If you are a guy and you were not a buff, popular stud in high school, then you will be a total loner here. If you are a girl and you are not attractive, egomaniacal (I once had a girl from my hall going around from door to door announcing to everyone that her birthday was in exactly one week) and superficial, don?t even bother applying here. You will be bored and alone all the time. Every female at this school is a stupid girly girl. I remember during orientation, we had to write down on a piece of paper what our biggest hope is for our four years at the school, and the girl next to me wrote down ?not to get fat.? This is your typical Loyola chick. Your amount of social life here functions in direct proportion to your level of physical attractiveness, blind conformity, and willingness to continually imbibe large quantities of alcohol at the shittiest, sketchiest bars in all of Baltimore. Going to college, for most students at Loyola, is a means-to-and-end. That is, it?s four years to learn just enough to get a well-paying job when you graduate; four years to go wild and have fun, because that?s all life is about for these worthless blobs of people. It?s actually funny sometimes to listen to some of them talk. It?s as if there?s nothing more important or interesting in the universe to them than a discussion of how hot this or that girl was, or how drunk they were the night before, and how they ?can?t remember ANYTHING, bro? because they were ?so TOTALLY wasted, man.? No one cares about their education. No one is passionate. So, that?s what it has been like here for me before. Needless to say, I will be transferring, and trying to erase this place from my life. You can dismiss this review and think I was some cynical outcast who blames all of his personal problems on his environment, but I swear this is not the case. I?ve tried to be nice and I?ve tried to meet like-minded people, but I just can?t take this place. And it?s sad because I really liked my classes and my professors. It?s just the students that ruin it. They just don?t give a shit about what they?re being taught. But if you do, then I promise you, you will be so stifled by these people, that you will inevitably want to transfer from this Catholic shit-hole. Or kill yourself. Either one.

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