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Personally, I love Creighton! It has a great atmosphere and feeling of community, people are super friendly and polite, and everyone there is dedicated to his schoolwork. There are hundreds of clubs and intramurals to get involved with. It has a low student population, with right around 4000 undergrads. Everywhere I go, I run into someone I know! One downside is the quality of on-campus food. However, being in downtown Omaha, many great restaurants are accessible, within walking distance even. Creighton is a Jesuit Catholic school, and it offers a liberal arts education that strives to form the whole person, mind, body and soul. The great diversity of classes that are required and available to students is great. At sporting events, school pride oozes from students. Creighton is really great!!

Overall, I love Creighton. It is a really great place to go to school. However, I would change our dining service. The food is subpar, the hours are not great, and the service is weak. The size has been perfect. My largest class size has been 60 (Calculus 1) but other than that, all of my classes have been less than 30 people, and most are actually closer to 20 (I am in the Journalism, Media, and Computing Department though which is a little smaller, so your Biology and Chemistry classes might be a little bit bigger). Not everyone shares my feelings of Omaha, but I have really loved it as a college town. I come from a huge city (Phoenix) so I was a little tired of all the driving and traffic, and Omaha has been the perfect escape. It's still a big city (almost half a million residents according to the 2010 census), but its small enough that I don't need to constantly battle traffic, or take the freeway to get anywhere. There is plenty to do in my opinion. The Old Market is about a 15-20 minute walk (3 minute drive) from campus into the downtown Omaha area and it is a ton of fun. They have all sorts of restaurants, coffee shops, ice-cream, and a bunch of other little shops down there and its a very fun walk. At night they run horse-drawn carriage rides through the market too which is fun. There are some cool parks on the Missouri River over that way too, and a pedestrian bridge which crosses over to Iowa, and is really pretty at night. There are also bars and clubs and what not for the upperclassmen too. So there are things to do here! We don't have a football team, so its hard to have a whole lot of school pride during football season, but we have a very good soccer and basketball team, both of which are a TON of fun to watch! I would definitely recommend going to both. I was never a soccer fan, but after watching a Creighton soccer game I was hooked. Not many schools can say they have a good soccer team so thats pretty cool. Plus, as a Creighton student, you get to go to every home sporting event we have for free! So they make it easy to enjoy the sports here. The weight room is not the greatest facility you have ever seen, but it is definitely passable, and the only things you would ever need to wait to use are the treadmills and ellipticals. I try to get to the gym once a day, and it is a fine facility right in the middle of campus, and it has just everything I need to get a good balanced workout. In addition, we do have a second gym down in the Harper center that is newer and much nicer (though a little smaller from what I understand because I haven't used it yet) and Creighton is currently contracting a new athletic building down by the soccer field, so we should be seeing further improvements on that front in the next year. Like I said at the start, Creighton has its weak points like every other school which can be frustrating, but overall I really love going to Creighton.

The best thing about Creighton is all of the opportunities that you can receive from attending this school. I feel that ever since freshman year (and I am a Junior now) I have been given the chance to do great things at Creighton. The faculty is always available to help you and they want you to succeed. Some of the reasons that I decided to come to Creighton were because I felt that it was the perfect size and in the perfect location. Omaha is right in between a small town and a large city. It is a growing city, so there are always awesome things going on. The size of CU is about 4000 undergrad students and probably 2000 (this is a rough guess) grad students. I came from a small high school with about 175 in my graduating class, so I absolutely love the size of Creighton. It is big enough that you won't know everybody, but small enough that you will get the chance to meet a lot of the people. Our school has a great student center with a snack shop, massage chairs, pool tables, computer lab, and just about anything else a college student would need to relax during classes. Currently, our school pride has been better than ever before, with our men's soccer team making it to the College Cup final four, and our mens basketball team being rqanked #17 in the country and also undefeated. There is a lot to know about Creighton, but it is a great school and these are jsut a few of the reasons.

...but I chose it for a reason. I feel like the school sort of falsely advertises (but a lot of schools do this to keep their stats up and get people to enroll with them) a bit too much, but I feel like the school isn't super selective when they allow people in. It's like a 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} rate of people getting in. I got in with a pretty crappy GPA, and it's funny because they'll let everyone in, but they won't retain everyone. There's a HUGE transfer rate, and people end up leaving the school because they aren't satisfied here. It's definitely a fit for some people, but I don't feel like I made the right choice. They say that they care about you, but honestly-- if you're a pre-med student, it's very difficult to find professors that you can talk to because you're stuck in classes with 200 people for your Gen-Eds. The professors ARE brilliant though, and they do care, but sometimes the classes are just too big for everyone to really shine. You'll feel more at home if you AREN'T a pre-med student.

When I tell people I go to Creighton they usually respond with "woah." When I ask them what that means they respond that I must be really smart and my parents must be really rich. So I tell them that I had to work my butt off to get As in my classes and that I work year round to help pay for my tuition. And they usually assume I'm going to be a doctor also.

I think that the best think about Creighton is it's community. Anyone and everyone on campus is willing to help you out whether you know them or not. The size of Creighton is just right for me. I think as I get older it will seem to get smaller and smaller, but it is a good size and transition for me from high school. My freshman year I spent a lot of time in the dorms. I loved hanging out and being with everyone there was always something to do! Omaha I would not say is a "college town" it is not centered around Creighton or UNO, but I do believe that there is lots to do in Omaha, so you won't get bored. From what I have gather Omaha also supports Creighton in there athletics. I believe that Creighton's administration is doing the best that it can do for the student and Creighton. The administrations is always looking for ways to help the students. Since I am on CSU I here a lot about the administration and the things that people do not like on campus. I think that people forget the big picture about college and start picking on little things once they are in college, but I do not think there is a really big controversy on campus. The only controversy is that some students do not like that Creighton has went smoke free.

Small classes professors remeber your name. Take time and study hard

People at creighton are nice. The school seems to be interested in making money and expanding. Omaha is okay city, but there is not much to do late at night other than the bars. The university is next to a not so nice part of town, but also is only about 8 blocks away from the Old Market which is business district with many bars and restuarants.

It's the perfect size, most of the classes have a maximum of 30 people and your professor knows you by name. The freshman dorms is where your family really is, and you can walk down your hallway and find anyone to talk to. My favorite study place is at the student center, it's not too quiet but I get a lot of work done. Basketball and Soccer games are a lot of fun to go to, and there's always a lot of people there.

Creighton is very strict in some aspects including check in to dorms, which seems to cause students more trouble than it's worth. But the security is understandable due to the school's location. Omaha is not necessarily a "college town," but downtown Omaha can be fun when the weather is nice.