Washington State University Top Questions

I am in a very competitive major, pre-veterinary medicine, and the students are very competitive, but yet very supportive of each other as well. I am in the honors college and in the honors classes the class size is small and you get the chance to know your professor well. In my general science classes, however, classes are huge and you get that kind of a relationship with your TA rather than professor. Professors and TA's make themselves available during office hours and will often take extr time to meet with you if needed.

Professors are very interactive. Many majors are in the top 5 or 10 in the nation (communications, architecture, veterinary medicine to name a few). The university focuses on writing, which is very important for new graduates. Critical thinking focal points in the curriculum will help people in the future.

The smaller the class size, the better the experience. In the larger classes such as lower-division chemistry and biology, there's almost no individual attention and sometimes the lecture is very fast paced and you may not have time to ask questions in lecture. Summer session has treated me wonderfully this year. The class sizes are very small, you attend class daily, and you get all the credit of a normal 16-week semester done in four to six weeks, depending on the class. I got a two semesters worth of Spanish done in eight weeks. I couldn't be happier.

Most of my professors know my name, now that I'm out of the huge freshman requirement classes. Once you get into your upper division and major classes, professors interact with you on a one on one basis. Developing relationships with professors is crucial, because it can help you with your grades, and especially internships and job searching when you graduate.

I like some of the professors here, but compared to the ones I dislike (who most people also detest) they are an extreme minority, barely making up one percent of the total. Grades are not competitive and studying is a rarity. As far as intellectual conversations, you can hope for one every blue moon or so, but the general populace is much more likely to tell you about how smashed they got the night prior as opposed to their views on politics, scientific research or ethics. Education at WSU is supposedly geared toward producing well rounded students, which is essentially a way of saying you aren't getting out until we waste a great deal of your time and money. Within science majors there are a fair share of good professors, but there are also some that should never be unleashed upon the public, much less set in front of a white board and put in charge of someone's grade.

well there is a reason why WSU lost thier athletic scholarships. because the academics suck. well they are really good, but the teachers are given inscentives to make people fail. and its hurting them. I was in a physics class with an A- and the entire class had A's because it was a new teacher and he made the class to easy, and so since everyone had A's they took the lab scores from everyone and docked them by 40{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} which screwd evereyone and gave me a C+ in the class because they needed to fail people. What a joke

It took me almost a year and a half before I really found what I wanted to pursue. I found that once I finally was in my element and focused on the goal of graduation, my academic life was a lot more positive. It was a challenge through those first couple of semesters when I really had no idea about what I wanted to do.

Even after graduation I have kept in contact with several of my professors, and I have made it a point to visit them when I am back in Pullman. Not only were they amazing in class, but they got to know you outside of class; what you were interested in, what you would be doing during the summer, and what they could do to help you succeed. My professors worked hard to find us the best summer internships and full time positions there were available.

the students amongst the science departments are very competitive. Especially the pre-health professions. As for the arts and humanities. they don't know how easy they have it.

Exploring various subjects ranging from film studies to the Chinese language has been very eye-opening and exciting. There is also a range of types of students at Washington State. Some study 12 hours a week or more while others may call it a week after 3 hours. Some majors and classes are more competitive than others. In my classes I have found that interaction with the teacher is emphasized more than competing with fellow students.