Pepperdine University Top Questions

The only thing that I don't love about Pepperdine is its lack of sports enthusiasm. Not a lot of students attend sports games. That was definitely a hard thing to adjust to especially after attending a high school that lived and breathed football.

The worst thing about our school that it is so academically challenging and competitive that it restricts our growth in other areas of intelligence. I say this with making a distinction between intelligence and wisdom. Pepperdine fosters and develops intelligent students - students that are very knowledgable within the content of their classes. However, the intense studying required to maintain even a 3.0 GPA, I believe, restricts activities that college students would engage in with the community, friends, or traveling, that many people who attend other schools would agree helped them grow spiritually and socially, that is, gained wisdom from.

It's a campus where there are so many activities that it's easy to get lost in all the busyness--and if you're not as involved as you "should be," it can be difficult to find a sense of community.

Pepperdine is a great school with a beautiful campus, and I don't see many flaws besides the location of it making it difficult to leave campus just because of traffic on PCH or not having a car. The only other think that students complain about is the abundance of stairs and hills that have to be walked through on a daily basis just to get to class. The sight of the ocean usually overpowers the dire need to sit down and take a rest though.

With a school being located in Malibu, there are plenty of wealthy people that attend this school. While on the other hand there are also people that are on a great amount of financial aid that don't have the ability to spend money freely as some do. Students can feel the need to live up to this wealthy lifestyle because they see extremely expensive cars on campus and international students that are paying full price for tuition. I wish money wasn't looked at so heavily with self value and worth.

The student housing setup. As a freshman you only have access to other freshman and the few sophomores that didn't go abroad. Obvioulsy Malibu is beautiful, so it's no surprise that it is expensive. Therefore, juniors and seniors that live off campus live fairly far away. During your first and second year, its hard to meety any upperclassmen, mainly becasue of the living situatuations.

I would probably say that the worst thing about pepperdine University is that it is hard to get around unless you have a car, and it is really easy to become sick of campus.

Probably the social life on campus. You are limited to church activities and community work which is rewarding but at times it seems a bit fake and forced.

There is nothing I can complain about Pepperdine. It is absolutely fantastic.

The worst thing about Pepperdine is the stairs. Everything is uphill, on a slant, or requires a lot of walking to get to. The hilly incline does have its upsides, however. The constant walking and climbing makes it difficult to gain "the freshman 15," and since the school is on a hill there is a beautiful view at all times.