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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Psychology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright To put it bluntly, if you're a minority or from a family that is middle to lower class you're not going to have a great time here. The campus is filled with a plethora of self-absorbed, close-minded, trust fund kids who are there to make sure mom and dad don't close them out of the will for lack of an "education". If you're a business major you will have the easiest time of your life with the accessibility of exams and cheat sheets. The engineering and arts & science schools laugh at the degrees given in the business school because *everybody* knows it wasn't earned and the program is easy (minus finance, they actually have work to do like the rest of the schools). The average grade in the psych department is a C and some profs even pride themselves for failing students or not having many A's and B's. Granted, there are other profs in the dept who are amazing...take time to talk to upper classmen and read other teacher review sites. SCU does a fabulous job of *appearing* to be socially conscious, but it's a front: there are racial incidents that happen yearly that get swept under the rug, the food workers and dorm workers aren't paid a fair living wage, the workers get their benefits cut so the university can save some money (where it goes I have noooo idea), and all the "immersion" trips they provide are super expensive making it not accessible to the average student.Bottom line: if you want to buy friends, sorry I mean, join a diversity lacking-close minded frat/sorority; breeze through a half ass business program; are White; have plenty of family money; and not looking to push yourself mentally, politically, and socially, come to SCU, you'll freakin love it. Campus Aesthetics: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 23 2011 4th Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=80301&uid=190'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Where do I start? This will be my un-biased review of Santa Clara University from MY perspective, other people may not have felt the same way but here goes nothing. Academics: From a Business Major standpoint, academics are pretty well rounded. Classes aren't TOO hard, but definitely time consuming, and teachers will know whether or not you put in the correct effort. My Business Teachers every quarter were amazing. First quarter I had a Business teacher that owned multiple-corporations and really gave me a hands-on experience of what its like to do work in a Business world. Heres the problem though, 2nd and 3rd Quarter Business classes are built around "How to be a leader", in my opinion you could teach that in 2 classes but for some reason they wanted to spend two quarters around such a simple topic. But it doesn't really come out so cut and clean. DISCLAIMER: When signing up for Business classes, there are RARELY any open spots if you get one of the late sign up sessions which is completely ridiculous in my opinion. Why am i paying 50,000$ a year to go to a small public school simply to know i might have to "sit in" on a class just to get in?? Back to the teacher topic, I had one math teacher who could hardly speak english and I really dont know how he got the job.. Diversity: Santa Clara does a decent job promoting diversity, but still the majority of the campus is white. More specifically White people from California. Then again you have your fair share of Asians, Latinos and Black people, but most of the groups hang out by themselves.There are many opportunities for students to join Multi-cultural clubs around campus. Campus: Campus is stupidly beautiful its as easy as that. Food: One of the major problems at this school. Not necessarily the Cafeteria, because Benson does provide quality food for a college campus it just gets SOOO repetitive its unbelievable. There will be times where you have Popcorn Chicken and Mashed potatoes once a week. Oh and Benson points usually run out pretty fast which has Males looking for their lovely Female counterparts towards the end of the quarter. Since theres only 1 Cafeteria, theres not too many options of what to eat, the only other food around is Taco Bell, Safeway, Round Table, and Stuft Pizza, and usually you'll end up using FLEX dollars at all of those places. Bronco is amazing though, good grilled burgers, pretty good fries, chicken tenders and so on for late-night eaters. Partying: Partying at Santa Clara is +/-, in the beginning during Fall Quarter EVERYONE goes out to start the year, it dies down towards the end of Fall, and once Winter starts Frats and Sororities start rushing and having formals so most parties are exclusive. Then it starts up again in the spring with a nice selection of day parties hosted by the fraternities. Pike guys are pretty chill but have a bad reputation among girls, Sigma Chi guys are pretty neutral and nice guys, Sigma Pi is just Sigma Pi, its easy as that, they only let girls in their parties cause most of them are too ugly to find their own. Pike is the only frat that knows how to throw REAL parties. DG Girls are known as sluts, Alpha Phi girls are the pretty well-rounded, and Thetas are just whatever. Dorms- On Campus Living I was a freshman that lived in Swig and honestly that was probably the best decision Ive ever made. I'm a pretty outgoing person and Swig is the hall that probably 65% of freshmen live in so i had a great time meeting a whole bunch of people. There was alot of pre-gaming in the dorms before going out and the CFs were pretty chill. Dunne was close by which was another freshman dorm but obviously it doesn't compare to swig because Swig is where its at. I cant talk about Campisi or Graham because i didn't really know anyone from there, but Swig was close to Benson and Parties, a nice stumble home. Overall I really enjoyed my freshman year at Santa Clara University, i live kind of far away so at times i would get home sick but i met a lot of amazing people. There are definitely moments where I feel that i would rather be at a bigger school but then again Santa Clara does provide a nice "family" feel. San Francisco, Santa Cruz and San Jose are cities that are close by for concerts and day trips. Overall School Grade: A Collaboration/Competitive: A+, Scholastic Success: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 07 2011 1st Year Male -- Class 2014    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=77904&uid=190'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Economics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I came to Santa Clara from Washington State (Seattle) and found that there were a ton of people from the Northwest. After California natives themselves, Seattlites represent the majority of the student population. The campus is beautiful and the people are very friendly and laid-back. I found the course work to be much less difficult than in high school and I ended up with way too much free time. You will find this is the case with most students and, thus, they donate a much higher percentage of time to socializing/partying. San Francisco and Santa Cruz are very close, but inconvenient to get to and people rarely pay them a visit. In general, I have been extremely bored here. The kids are nice, but not all that interesting. The campus is pretty, but there isn't much to do. The academics are well-respected, but not challenging. In general, I have a neutral and "blah" opinion of the school. I have no found the students to be arrogant or snooty and most are very open-minded. Although the Greek life is not associated with the university, it has a huge presence and I would definitely recommend joining. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Surrounding City: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 04 2011 1st Year Female -- Class 2014    Forward  Blog it! 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