The Evergreen State College Top Questions

nothing really.

The run around you get when working with financial aid or the academic councelors.

I sometimes wish it was a larger institution with more connections into career fields, high-end research, and job opportunities-- but that's it. The academics are just perfect.

The school has raised its acceptance rating, creating some of the largest classes to ever come through Evergreen. Not only does this overpopulate the programs and make it even more difficult to get into the courses you desire, it turns Evergreen into the backup school for many students who enroll after being rejected from another school. Those students are not here for what Evergreen has to offer and therefore are demolishing the environment, community, and goals of the school. This also has made the on-campus housing situation evolve from livable to out of control in just three years.

Coming from a poor family, I feel most frustrated with evergreen's rich students who dress like hippies to pretend they are poor and will use that as a way to say they are oppressed.

Hippies, Anarcho-Punks. There was a riot last year at a concert where some of them flipped over a cop car costing the school $40,000 and ending all cultural activites for the rest of the year.

The system for taking classes. One class a quarter? What if you get a horrible teacher? Too bad because there is little possiblity there will be room for you in another class, let alone a class interesting you.