CUNY Hunter College Top Questions

I think Hunter college is one of the best colleges for science students.

Hunter is overcrowded. It is difficult to make friends. People are generally dismissive. When I tell people I go here, the reaction is generally positive -- I think because it has been ranked highly by US News Report as a "value college". The instructors are generally pretty good -- unless you get an adjunct, in which case they are difficult to get a hold of. The campus environment is extremely depressing. There is virtually no where to socialize (if you happen to have a friend). The library is generally more of a social environment and the lunch crowd tends to spill into it. It's also very old and warn-down/dirty. The cafeteria food is over-priced and generally heavy in fats and carbs. If you're on a diet, you'll have to lug your own food over with you. It's difficult to get any guidance by the staff here. There is generally not a lot of enthusiasm about the job. Overall -- worst decision of my life.

The best thing about Hunter is its diversity, culturally as well as in all other demographics, there is a big age range (because seniors in the area are allowed to audit Hunter classes for free and its quite amusing). In an ideal world I would like to cut down on the red tape too, but more so in the sense to make things streamline and to have more people who are 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} competent and happy to help. Public institutions have different means of hiring people and the income tends to be lower so there are not as many perfect and peachy 20-something aged assistants running around hunter wanting to bend over backwards to help you. Hunter has a main campus that has three buildings, the brand new Roosevelt house a few blocks away, Brookdale downtown and the School of Social Work in Harlem. Technically, there is enough space for everyone but during noon in the main campus it can be jammed, especially on the elevators but thats also because we have a lot of lazy students who use it for one flight. We just funded a green initiative here to promote walking the stairs among other things. There is not a lot of school pride but there are plenty of extra curriculars and clubs for people who want to feel connected. Around 100 registered clubs this semester (the need to re-register every year) and these clubs receive paid funding through the school. There is a lot of political activism as well, especially with Occupy Wall Street.

The experiences I'll always remember at Hunter is sitting on the stairwell in the drama department, cramming for microbiology exams. Or relaxing with friends on the veranda in the West building on the eighth floor. Some professors hold classes out there during the summer, and it makes class fun that way. Students do complain about the bird-poop there. But they put covers now, so you can even sit out there during rain.

when I tell people I go to hunter, they look down on me as i come from a well-to-do area where most people go to expensive, private, and ivy league-schools. I think we need more of a close-knit campus, get people invested, to know eachother. I think hunter is amazingly located and more classes should take advantage of that.

Hunter is a very diverse school. As an international student, I feel extremely comfortable here. I've adapted well, thanks to the concideration of my professors and peers. I've made a ton of good friends from different parts of the world, not only Georgia. I even met my girlfriend, who is from Austria, here.

Hunter almost feel just just another HS, it's small for me ideal college but its located in the city so hey, what'd you expect. I also like how the school is smack in the middle of EVERYTHING. There's a bookstore across the street, the shopping district isn't too far away, the park is right there near the school. Hunter college is in new york city- the center of the world. I'd like to see more interaction between the administration and the students, maybe the dean/president would like to visit randomly selected classes just to participate with the students. I don't even know the face of the person who runs this school. I spend most of my time in the library, it's nice and quiet, although i would occasionally fall asleep from the cold AC.

I think Hunter could be bigger. The school could use a better physical activity program. The administration could reduce some of the paper work for clubs if not better explain how things work.

Way too many people. The escalators are becoming dangerous.

I spend most of my time in the library on the campus or in the language lab. I was told that the old language lab was extremely disorganized and difficult to get into: there were long lines and not enough service. They have renovated it, and now it's the most comfortable and relaxing place in the college. Another quiet place is the upper floor of the library. It's very secluded, so you get a lot of privacy to study.