University of Missouri-Kansas City Top Questions

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?

Kerri

That the student tend to be so focused that meeting enough others to form study groups can be difficult.

Brittany

I wish I was aware of the lack of security on campus.

Olubukola

I wish I would have known more about financial aid, scholarships, and grants for school. Even knowing about work-study would have been helpful. UMKC can get expensive, especially when you are in a program like pharmacy, nursing, or medicine. It's hard when you know you have school debt that just keeps building because you want to reach your educational goal.

Ana

I wish I had known that not everyone is as academically involved or willing to involve themselves as I am.

Rheneashion

More about costs

Dominique

How to look up information on our tool sites and write down everything a teacher says because it could be helpful.

Lia

I wish I would have known more about the activities available on campus.

Hailey

I wish I would have applied for many more scholarships.

Ebony

The class sizes i perfer smaller class sizes as oppose to large lecture halls. They are impersonal to me.

Matthew

I wish I had known that it is mostly a commuter school.