(LUM) I'm a graduating Senior, Economics Major who took alot

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

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Male

1240

Quite Bright

Excess Competition	F

Faculty Accessibility	A+

He cares more about Excess Competition than the average student.

Date: Feb 27 2012
Major: (This Major's Salary over time)
I'm a graduating Senior, Economics Major who took alot of business classes and I am regularly involved in the social scene. (Go the bars every weekend, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, occasionally a Tuesday or a Monday in there) First, You will spend a ton at this school. This is a BAR school. If your parents aren't providing you the bills to pay for alcohol, cab fares, cover fees to bars, expensive bars drinks then DO NOT come here. All that adds up, and other more campus based non-bar party schools are alot cheaper and more fun(but we'll get to that). Second, The bar scene becomes tiring very quickly. There are only a few bars people go to on each night and you get painfully tired of each of them, since the school is VERY strict with on-campus drinking. Drinking socially on CAMPUS will get you written up, with fines and possibly suspensions very quickly. THIS IS NOT THE "COLLEGE" that you read about/see on TV and they will remind you of that quickly. So you must go to bars off campus, which means you must buy a Fake ID, which will run you about $100, possibly more and won't work all the time at these bars. Third, The general "social" atmosphere around here is lacking. What do I mean by this? Student bodies around colleges tend to be very "group" oriented. Meaning there are small sub groups of people who hang out and they generally only socialize within their group, but occasionally branch out and socialize with other groups. Well at Loyola this social atmosphere is multiplied by ten. People have their groups and generally stick to them. There is little socializing among groups/people you don't know. Meaning girls are very status conscious when they are at a bar and a guy approaches them who they don't know. I've visited other schools and this "aversion" to meeting people you don't know isn't as intense as it is here at Loyola. Status is everything to among these upper middle class white kids so anxiety about socializing and the Zero school spirit really kills the social atmosphere and the "community"/'we're all in this together" atmosphere you see at different schools. Fourth, School Spirit is nonexistent. Lacrosse games draw people to the stadium we have but nobody really cares about the sport that much, people are just looking for an excuse to day drink and break up the monotony of going to bars. This year the basketball team is better than usual and is drawing some attention, but still, nobody is really proud to go this school. Fifth, As other reviewers have stated Loyola is not really located in the city of Baltimore, but on the outskirts. Travel is difficult into the city, No subway, expensive cabs, poor bus service so going on excursions into the nicer parts of baltimore are rare(freshman also can't have cars on campus). The area around Loyola's campus is also very poor, which leads to muggings, sexual assaults...etc. A group of people were actually mugged on campus last year as well, when some of the "locals" from york road made a trip to campus. Sixth, Parking on Campus is horrendous and will cost you a fortunte. Seventh, The student body is mostly preppy, yuppie, bro white upper class college kids. There is ZERO diversity. I repeat, ZERO. the only black kids are the ones that play on the basketball team. A few asians, and maybe 5 hispanic kids in the each grade. Thats just a fact. I can get along with these preppy kids so it's not awful for me, but for other people I can see how this would be a nightmare. Eighth, by Junior year everyone kind of accepts that they would have preferred to go to another school, but people just decide to live with it and make the best of their situation. Many do end up transferring or getting kicked out because of the strict campus rules. Ninth, the academics are decent. You still have to game the system and many do cheat just to get better grades, but that happens at any school. Surprisingly alot of the professors are actually not that great at teaching. But this is more reflective of college in general. Overall though I had 6-7 Horrible, Bottom of the barrel teachers, 1-2 great teachers and the rest were middle of the road. Because of the small class sizes most will be very available for office hours, how helpful those office hours are is a different story. So in general, I just want to reinforce the fact that this school is not for everyone. In fact its not for most people. But take this review as an honest assessment of the school from a student who has fun and parties, but who had to make the most of the situation after painstaking effort and alot of trial and error, which would have never happened at a different school. Apply to Loyola with caution

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