ex0tic

I remember a year ago around this time when I was a senior in H.S and as anxious as many of you are to hear back from schools, UCONN being my top choice. I remember being ridiculously anxious and driven nuts about this whole college process. UCONN was my #1 choice, I was desperately wanting to be admitted and it was nerve wrecking waiting to hear bac. Because I too was once obsessed with this forum, I am offering to answer any questions you guys may have.

I am a freshman at UCONN. I am currently going into my second semester at UCONN and i absolutely love it! I am so glad I chose to come here, it is truly a wonderful place

BEST OF LUCK EVERYBODY!!

BTW: My best advice to you is you'll never know, have faith, and believe in yourself. because 9/10 people told me there was no way i'll get into uconn when i ask them to 'chance me' on this forum. but hey guess what, my first semester done at uconn and i am getting high grades, i am deeply involved on campus, and a contributing member of the community.

dank08

What were your stats. I know all too well about the, "don't waste your money applying there."

lehcar

Hi...I'm a senior in high school and I was just accepted to UConn's Honors Program. I was wondering if you knew anything about it. do honors students live in honors dorms all 4 years? are honors students secluded from the rest of uconn? does the honors program make much of a difference in the overall uconn experience?

Any info you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch

ex0tic

Wow, thats awesome congrats. First year honors students live in SHIPPEE. I have a couple friends in the honors program and i often go there to visit. It is a very nice dorm and the benefit of being housed together is that you get to live with students similar to you. Which is by no means separating the honors kids from the nonhonors kids. Most classes you take with everyone else. Its just that there are certain requirements for honors kids. Also, after the first year you are free to live anywhere else on campus.

GoldShadow

There are also many honors-only sections, and some classes altogether (eg, Chem 129/130) are honors only. Honors kids get to pick classes earlier than other students, and have other opportunities available that non-honors students do not. There is an honors thesis that all honors students must complete before they graduate, so this means you'll have to do research or some kind of independent work.

Shippee rooms are amazing, but the dorm is as far away as it could possibly be from the main part of campus. Shippee's also got a lot of interesting people in it... and even more annoying people. I guess it comes with the territory.

viperm90

I dont know if financial aid was one of your concerns..but it is mine...so do you happen to know how good Uconn is with need-based aid...and maybe even merit?

achang1990

hey, could you tell me about UConn's pharmacy? I was accepted for pharmacy, and I can't decide betweeen UConn and Pitt.

lehcar

exotic & GoldShadow- thanks for the helpful information

Keshav

how would you rate the campus and facilities in terms of cleanliness?

are the science labs new/modern/state-of-the-art?

are several buildings old and need to be rebuilt in your opinion?

the school is in storrs, which from what i hear is in the middle of nowhere. how is that "nowhere"? is the scenery depressing?

cnp55

AS compared to Cornell being in the middle of nowhere -- UConn is practically in downtown Hartford!

It's not terribly far from Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester. The Interstate makes Hartford and Boston, to a lesser extent Providence, not terribly far away.

Eastern Connecticut is a lovely part of the world -- and while it's rural compared to many parts of Connecticut, it's not totally isolated, low-income rural. You'll have to visit as YMMV.

(UConn '77 grad, son is Cornell '10)

Jlime18

You are completely wrong, CNP55.

UCONN is way more rural than Cornell. Cornell is in Ithaca, a nice college town with a big commercial center and actual venues and stuff. Storrs however, has virtually NO town at all, there is NO comercial areas, NO where to shop, NO where to hang out "in town". UConn is entirely isolated. There is nothing outside campus except farmland. And I wouldn't say that being a half hour from the city makes Uconn "in downtown Hartford".

buffalowizard

How's the food?
More specifically... how's the pizza?
Is there good pizza? Is it abundant? Is it cheap?

Halie

I used to live right near UConn.

It is VERY rural, but it isn't a hick town (obviously. You're in Connecticut).

The town that I lived in had 2 elementary schools, no newspaper and shared a mayor.

Get used to driving places, because you'll have to.

GoldShadow

I would say everything is pretty clean. There are trash cans in most places (including outdoors), and just recently they've put recycling bins for bottles and paper in virtually every building.

Most of the newer science labs are "modern" and very good, at least what I've seen.

A couple of the older buildings need to be torn down and replaced; specifically Arjona, Koons Hall, and Monteith... and the West dorms are pretty bad too. They did tear down the old pharmacy building and they're currently in the process of replacing it with some greenery! But the newer buildings/expansions on campus are awesome (especially the new Student Union).

The scenery isn't depressing at all; I like it in fact. There's greenery, there are buildings. If you go out on the edge of campus, you can see farmland and cows for miles; not sure if that's "good" or "bad".

There's a huge variety of food on and around campus! Dining halls (which are part of the meal plan); South is the best (everyone agrees on this), then Towers and Northwest, then North and McMahon. I've never been to it, but I hear Whitney's horrible.
If you want to spend cash/points, there's the Student Union with its food court (Dining Services' little restaurants, which have pizza, pasta, grinders, mexican, macaroni, chicken, salad), Wendy's, Panda Express, Blimpie's. There's the Union's restaurant, Chuck and Augie's, which you might want to go to a couple times a semester or if you have points to burn... the food is amazing. The Co-op also has a nice restaurant, their breakfast bagel sandwiches are amazing. Then there are restaurants around campus, many of which deliver (Domino's, Subway, Dunkin Donuts, DP Dough, Sgt Pepperoni's, Willington Pizza, Wings, and everything else).

Pizza quality is top-notch. The Student Union pizza is the best; $1.99 cheese slice, $2.99 veggie or specialty (changes depending on the day). The dining hall pizzas are okay as well (and part of the meal plan). Then there's all the awesome pizza restaurants near campus (many of which deliver)! Slightly more expensive, but worth it.

Here's a link to all the restaurants around campus that deliver:
Storrs Restaurants - CT, 06269, University of Connecticut, Order Food Online, Campusfood.com

buffalowizard

Thanks, GoldShadow!