Berea College
- 4 Year
- BEREA, KY
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Berea College Reviews
Rating 3.24 out of 5 466 reviews
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I can always feel a vicious, genocidal mentality floating around. You are there to do what "they" want. You are there for them to experiment. Only two classes (History of China, Intro to Psycho) advanced my knowledge. The rest were incredibly toxic.
STEM classes are watered down to the point of homeopathy. Profs are very lazy. You are punished for their bad teaching. Courses have five minutes of usefulness in an entire semester. Consider watching a movie at 100x slower speed. Would you remember if I asked you the plot in the end? Identity politics is everywhere. Their TAs will give you failing grades if you belong to the wrong demographics. Opportunities are given 1:1 for men and women, while the student ratio is 1:10.
In life, you have to compete with people who are far ahead of you. The only people who get jobs are those covered by quotas and those who know the materials even before they come here. Others work for minimum wage jobs or take a gap year to do the "real" learning.
STEM classes are watered down to the point of homeopathy. Profs are very lazy. You are punished for their bad teaching. Courses have five minutes of usefulness in an entire semester. Consider watching a movie at 100x slower speed. Would you remember if I asked you the plot in the end? Identity politics is everywhere. Their TAs will give you failing grades if you belong to the wrong demographics. Opportunities are given 1:1 for men and women, while the student ratio is 1:10.
In life, you have to compete with people who are far ahead of you. The only people who get jobs are those covered by quotas and those who know the materials even before they come here. Others work for minimum wage jobs or take a gap year to do the "real" learning.
The college overall fosters an excellent learning environment where professors are always enthusiastic to support students. It has immense resources. You just have to tap in and take advantage of them. Did I mention that it is also tuition-free? Every admitted student receives a No-tuition promise scholarship and thus it is competitive for students to get admitted to Berea. The Food services are not the best but with the amount of money one invests, it is definitely a good bang for the buck.
The college is a cartel of professors and staff. The board of trustees is some self-perpetuating body that rarely meets and has little power. The faculty and staff make all decisions to benefit themselves at whatever cost to the students. Imagine it has been going on for 200 years. The result is Berea College, a plantation in all but name.
You need 32 credits to graduate. The "general studies" alone takes about 12 to fill up so many blotched departments that no longer have students. For what? To give professors a job. The classes are bland and useless. Each professor gives out 8 hours of busy work every week to occupy your time. They think of your time as "their own" that must be occupied. If not, they feel like a slave owner not putting her slaves to work.
You need 32 credits to graduate. The "general studies" alone takes about 12 to fill up so many blotched departments that no longer have students. For what? To give professors a job. The classes are bland and useless. Each professor gives out 8 hours of busy work every week to occupy your time. They think of your time as "their own" that must be occupied. If not, they feel like a slave owner not putting her slaves to work.
Great option for those who come from low income households. The town itself is very conservative and Berea College serves as a open-minded bubble that encourages advocacy for those oppressed. Located in a very small town, there's not much to do unless you drive to Richmond or Lexington. I'm happy for the four years I spent here.
Help give me the fullest and most exciting life imaginable!!! Coming from poor rural West Virginia I dreamt big and Berea college helped me fulfill those dreams!!!
Berea college offers you work experience while getting a high quality education. It allowed me to meet so many great people and introduced me to futures i never thought possible for myself.
Berea does not normally offer online classes, however with the state of education right now, the college has learned to take everything tot he web and done so very effectively.
No net connections at all. Not only that, most professors take "no connections" as "excuses". Some get failed for this.
It was horrible. Net connection is sporadic. It's not because of anyone, but the department is incompetent. It usually takes days to get everything back online. But the time, assignments were missed. Despite knowing all this, most professors won't accommodate you. I have seen some people get failed based on this: completely out of their control.
This is a great school with many oppurtunities. It's small but has a big reputation with its No Tution Promise Scholarship which helps low-income students have a chance at an education. With everything going on with this "pandemic" they are having a hard time answering and getting info out to students. Nonetheless, this school overall is one of the best out there.
The only thing this college has going for them is the no-tuition promise. The professors are okay; the dorm life is terrible. There is not much to do since they do not allow cars on campus unless there is a particular circumstance. If I am honest, the only reason I decided to attend was that I am poor and could not afford anywhere else.
Berea does not offer online learning so I did not have to worry about that. We did, however, get switched to online because of COVID-19. I did not learn anything during that time.
Berea College, while I wasn't the most enthusiastic about it as a freshman has really come through for me. The people there are amazing and have been invested in seeing me become successful after my time there. Going to Berea has taught me that just because I come from a poor back ground that doesn't mean I shouldn't have nice things and be successful.
Challenging at times. Some students do not have the same resources at home as they do on campus. This could've been considered.
Great professors! The campus is beautiful and has a variety of spaces for students to study. I miss it!
Great college, a remarkable environment to grow and learn. I received a quality education at no cost and all four years, I made life-long friendships and memories. The only drawback I can think of is how major recruiters ignore Berea College.
Like all students, Berea Students love to complain about Berea, it's one of our favorite things to do. Berea is in the middle of nowhere, the nearest mall being 40 minutes away, and because parking is so limited almost no-one has a car to get anywhere. Berea has no party scene and alcohol isn't allowed on campus. The food in the lunchroom isn't great and we all have to work on top of our crazy hard school work.
But despite how much we complain about the school, we all love it. Berea is the place that had hope in us, that saw us as more than poor sad kids doomed for nothing, they took a risk and with their help, we are going to succeed.
But despite how much we complain about the school, we all love it. Berea is the place that had hope in us, that saw us as more than poor sad kids doomed for nothing, they took a risk and with their help, we are going to succeed.