Oakland University Top Questions

I wish I would have known more about the different majors they offered.

I wish I would have known that they have a satellite campus closer to me. Ive been going to OU and I never knew that. That would have saved 40 miles round trip three times a week for four years. The satellite campus is about 10 miles from me. I hope to take classes this summer. I also wish I had looked more into scholarships. I now have allot of student loans and debt. I know it will be worth it in the long run though.

I wish I would have known how simple everything was. I started out at a community college, and I always thought that going to a university would be more complicated. If I would have known how simple things were, I would have come to the university straight after high school. I was told that I could not afford to come to a university. I could barley afford going to a community college.

Unless you have an 8 am class, you need at least 20 minutes to find a parking spot. It as taken me up to 45 minutes to park before class, making a lot of students late.

I wish I would have known that the teachers are not helpful at all, the campus life is boring, and financial aid and academic advisors give you the run around just so you can stay in school longer than anticipated.

I wish I had known to apply for more scholarships. My high school didn't really place an emphasis on that.

I wish I had known how different university was than community college. Before attending classes at Oakland University, I had been going to school at Macomb Community College. There, the class sizes were much smaller and overall the way the classes were structured were much different. Going into Oakland University, I wasn't used to the "three exams then one final" structure that made up the majority of my courses. It's a much harsher grading system than I had become acclimatized to at MCC. I simply hadn't fully realized this increase in difficulty before I started my courses.

I wish I knew more about the registration process and guidelines before coming to Oakland University. I had to learn many of the school's guidelines through experience, which made things a little more difficult.

Nothing, really. No school is perfect. The goods outweigh the bads for me as far as OU is concerned. I might've warned my past self about the few terrible professors I did run into, however.

Thing that i wish i knew before I came to this school is the cost of everything like tuition, room and board, and much more. I also wish I knew what type of classes I was going to be taking throughout all of my semesters. I wish I knew the ratings of the classes and how many people has passed and failed a class. The different types of events and organizations that I can join. I also wish I knew the type of people that went to this school. How long I had to be in school for my major.