University of Vermont Top Questions

I wish I had known how academically rigorous the engineering program is here. It's extremely difficult and much harder than I ever anticipated it to be. However I'm hanging in there and I hope I can keep up my grades in order to stay here.

I wish I had understood Freshman housing more. Trinity campus is isolating for freshman

I think I was best of knowing as little as I did. I knew that this University would support my sexual orientation, was environmentally friendly, and academically driven. All the other things you learn along the way just come with experience.

Paying for this school would screw me over for life. And I could probably get the same education anywhere else - but not the same experience.

How expensive everything is... the surrounding area, on campus stores, campus food, etc.

that the business school is not very practical based, only theory and whats in a book.

I came from a small town so when I arrived here UVM seemed huge, realisticly it feels like a small town. I wished I had known this so I wouldn't have been intimidated at first.

I came to UVM with a great scholarship package, the only reason I turned down my cheaper state schools. Unfortunetly every year more money is taken from my package, while the tuition goes up. All colleges do this, but I wish I had known this would happen. It is not fair that colleges entice and then leave you hanging and in debt to your neck by graduation time. I wouldn't be able to leave UVM no matter how much they take away, I love it here, but it definitly might deter others from coming in the first place.

I wish I had known how cold it gets in the winter! Also, the University of Vermont does not have a very ethnically diverse campus and so it doesnt accurately represent the country we are living in. Most students here are caucasions from middle, or upper middle class families. I love it at the University of Vermont and am very happy with my decision to come here.

Classes are often big freshman year