About Berklee Housing/Meals/Operations

pdesmond
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:28:31 +0000

I have had extensive experience with Berklee administration. It is not like other schools. It is much worse. There is very little, if any, communication between individuals and departments. I have to triple check anything I do with Berklee. Over a four year period I have had to do this. Housing doesn’t talk to orientation. Admissions knows nothing about insurance. I have put other kids through other colleges and had issues but nothing like what goes on at Berklee.
For $62,000.00 a year I would send your kid somewhere else. Berklee has no athletic/gym facilities of any kind. And the few choices recommended for an additional fee privately are not great. It still isn’t clear if the newest building will have anything exercise when it is finished.
Berklee has no onsite medical anything. No nurse, no doc. I have been unable to find out if any of the rent-a-cops have EMT training. Just because the hospital is a mile away is not a valid reason not to have something. If you kid has a minor medical situation, it will cost you in a major way.We are talking about college kids. Drinking, drugs, infections. There should be something basic. There is nothing. A lawyers dream for lawsuits.
Berklee needs an office of assistance, someone to go to who solves any issue by coordinating and referring. Then Berklee needs to incorporate changes so the same issues don’t come back again.
There is a lot of competition now for what Berklee offers. Are you listening Roger?