University of Nebraska at Omaha Top Questions

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is mostly a commuting school with very few dorms on campus. Therefore, I found it difficult to get involved in activities and to have the full college experience during my undergrad studies.

Before I had came to the University of Nebraska Omaha, I wish I would have known about scholarship opportunities for students who are akready attending college and not just learning about the ones offered to high school graduates.

The financial aid office will not offer you hardly any money if you have a job. They also will send you your money only a day or two before the semester starts (if you're lucky). Scholarships are only given to entering freshmen students. It doesn't matter if you have a 4.0 GPA, you don't get a dime of assistance unless you are a first-time Freshman.

I wish I would have known how expensive it would be. It's hard being a full time student and working over time to make ends meet. I wish i would have started saving a long time ago.

I live in the dorms and I wish I had known people who had lived in the dorms early on before I applied for housing, so they could tell me what it was like. I don't get along with one of my roommates and living in the dorms is a totally different experience than I thought it was going to be. I just wish I had thought about it more before I moved into the dorms.

I wish I had known more about how to achieve my degree. I didn't know anything about the classes I had to take until the very last moment and I still don't really know much.

I wish there was a student rating system about proffesors so as not to be hindered by poor instruction.

that i need to study more so that i could be more prepared for classes and exams. its a bit more difficult that high school when you have a lot to fall back on to.

I wish I would have known when to ask a professor for help and when to talk to my advisor about classes to take. In high school there were advisors always coming to you and helping you to do your best, and in college it is the opposite. Your advisors won't know something is not right or that you're upset unless you tell them. Until then, they can't help you, and the problems don't get solved. I also wish I had known how to be more involved early on.

I wish I would have known to feel out some of the classes first before buying the books. Most classes claim that a book is "required" when it truly is not absolutely necessary. I now prefer to find out how much it is needed in the class first before I blow $100 on the book.