Saint Louis University Top Questions

Campus Security is pretty tight. Though this is a good thing, it is frustrating when you have to swipe your Student ID to get into any building, you have to check all guests into the front desk and if you don't live in a particular building, a friend has to sign you in if it's past 7 pm.

Most of the people are extremely conservative, and unwilling to listen to alternative views.

The classes and work loads sometimes gets to be too overwhelming. I also get the feeling that some of the school's funding is used in areas where it shouldn't be. Since I do go to a Jesuit university, the school is working to better the surrounding area and so a lot of funding is used for gardening and other ways to make the city look better.

Having a social life is difficult sometimes. There are only parties in apartments and you need to know people having the party to get in to it. However, they are a lot of frat praties. The party though are off-campus. There never seems to be must entertainment on campus.

I'm sure students at other schools experience this but at SLU it is very easy to become discouraged by the amount of hoops you have to jump through to get things done. I changed my major 2 semesters ago and it still shows up on my transcript and my student account. I was also unable to register for classes or meet with an advisor in my new major because I was still listed as a student in the old major despite filling out the paperwork three times. It's frustrating to feel unimportant in the eyes of the school.

The school's online website is very unorganized and it's difficult to locate specific information.

The most frusterating thing about my school that I have personally come across, is recieving the run around from the registrar, financial aid, and the guidance department when I was in my first year of school. Other times that can be stressful and frusterating are registering for classes and picking housing for the up coming year.

Nothing is really frustrating

Doesn't seem to hand out much in the way of financial aid.

The different scale that nursing students are on versus the rest of the school.