Eckerd College Top Questions

I find that having no talk-free study area to use during break periods to be frustrating. I am in the PEL program and take my classes at the Sarasota campus.

The students - upper middle class to wealthy - just expect a degree to be given to them with little effort for a fee that their parents can easily pay. Finding a student who truly cares about working hard and studying is rare. Also, Eckerd suffers from a "plantaition effect" in that the students are mostly white and wealthy while the workers are mostly poor and black. It's appalling how much Eckerd tries to promote a socially responsible atmosphere while they are outsourcing their jobs to companies that pay its workers at poverty level wages.

close-mindedness and superioritiveness of some individual students. also the lack of intelligent life among the student population. Most are rich kids just trying to keep their parents happy so they can keep partying every day.

It is way too expensive.

The lack of financial aid.

It is too small and cliquish.

Too many drugs, not enough emphasis on academics, teachers uninterested, students for the most part are dirty hippies, barely anyone wears shoes, the food is disgusting, the dorms are gross, and the people that are in charge do nothing to help. I wanted a room change because my roommate kept a knife under her bed and they wouldn't let me, even though there was an empty room right next door to me. Everyone knows everyones business and there are alot of std's.

The worst thing about Eckerd is that you definitely need access to a car to get around Saint Petersburg, public transportation isn't very reliable and the campus is far from downtown and the beach.

The only slight problem with this college is that the social life is severely lacking and very often it is quiet on weekends. This is the worst thing because there is never any relief of accumulated stress.

There is a lot of drinking, but it is not difficult to opt out of this if students so choose.