Of course the best part of getting into the Princeton Review is the "Students Say" section. On Campus Life, UNCG gets props for our location ("a three-hour drive to both beaches and mountains"), Weatherspoon Art Gallery, and our cultural opportunities like our lecture series and plays. I like this one:
The school's many commuters warn that "parking is horrendous. Prepare to get here an hour before class if you want to find a space on time."Name me one school where parking isn't horrendous. And I worry about this one:
Many here feel the addition of a football team (the school has none) would change that; "It would really bring the school spirit up," opines one undergrad.
Meh...I doubt it. School spirit? Everyone is either driving to the beach of the mountains on the weekends. As I've said before, what UNCG really needs is a Campus Activity Board that is financed well enough to bring in some really cool acts and/or bands. I think UNCG football is only going to satisfy a small population where a band would satisfy a larger population.
On Academics, the Paranoid Right will take special note that sensational claims of political bias in the classroom are not noted. I guess that makes it your problem, not a real problem here at UNCG.
On Student Body, UNCG sounds rather cliquish. I'd agree with that. But like the parking problem, where doesn't this happen? For me, I was a transfer student who came to UNCG as a Junior. But I was coming from a smaller, even more cliquish school (Mary Washington College, aka: The University of Mary Washington) so I was kinda happy to just be a faceless, nameless person in the crowd. I got the best grades of my college career that semester.
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