<p>I have been accepted to Finlandia University in Hancock, Michigan and, including scholarships and financial aid, only have to pay about $3000. If anyone has either attended, attending, or know about Finlandia University, please tell me about it. I would like to know almost everything regarding this school, from college life to academics to career services. Finlandia University is a private, non profit school. Thank you everyone.</p>
<p>If you want to know all about it, i suggest looking up specific student reviews elsewhere on the net. The chances that someone here will be able to provide you with everything you need to know about a small private school are probably not very high…</p>
<p>But i could be wrong</p>
<p>I live in Michigan, have lived here most of my life, and I didn’t know ANYTHING about this school until last year. </p>
<p>My best friend goes to another school in the UP and has visited Finlandia a few times. I could get some details out of him next time we talk. </p>
<p>What I do know: It is very, very tiny. Only about 500 students IIRC. It is almost entirely WASP students. It is virtually unknown in Michigan, let alone outside of MI. It is in the middle of nowhere and the weather up in the UP just generally sucks. The campus is very pretty though. </p>
<p>Wish I could be of more help. The best thing you can do is to visit that school. With such a small network, it might be very hard to find anyone who knows anything about it.</p>
<p>What does “WASP students” mean? Also, when you mean the weather in the Upper Peninsula is bad, do you mean it snows a lot or that it is simply very cold, and rains a lot? Furthermore, even though Finlandia is a small, mostly unknown school, if I supposedly earn a very high GPA while at Finlandia (meaning between 3.5 and 4.0), then would I be able to get accepted into graduate school or obtain a career position easily shortly after I earn my bachelor’s degree at Finlandia? Mainly, if I do good at Finlandia, then will I have relatively the same options for my future as if I had gone to a bigger, more renowned school?</p>
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<p>If you do well at Finlandia, you should be able to go on to bigger and better things. But you might want to check with students who have attended the school before.</p>
<p>Did you apply without knowing anything at all about the school?</p>
<p>I knew that the school was small, which is something that I like with individualized attention and small classes. However, I didn’t know whether or not which undergraduate school you choose could potential impact your future career and finding a job and/or getting accepted into graduate school.</p>
<p>I’m bumping this thread up. I don’t know if you’ve made a decision yet, OP, but I’d like to toss in my $0.02. </p>
<p>Finlandia used to be called Suomi and was once a two-year college. I don’t think they’ve been a four-year college for very long, and they do offer limited programs as a result. However, some of those programs do look interesting and it’s one of the few places you can go to take Finnish classes in the United States. I agree that the name recognition is pretty bad unless you stay in the Upper Peninsula. That’s not to say it’s a bad school, but if you say you went to Finlandia, people are probably going to give you a blank look and say, “Where?” </p>
<p>I’m pretty familiar with Hancock because my mom grew up there and we visit a lot. If you go to Finlandia, you will need a car. I cannot emphasize this enough. The college sits halfway up a large hill and walking to downtown Hancock might get tiring after a while. Also, there’s a limited amount of things that tend to appeal to college students in Hancock. It has some grocery stores, some hardware stores, a bookstore, and a few other little specialty shops, but it’s definitely designed as a town for blue-collar living and not college students. I think that’s one of the reasons I love Hancock so much.</p>
<p>If you do need the typical college social life experience, you can hop over to Houghton and visit Michigan Tech. It has several thousand students and Houghton tries to cater to them a little more than Hancock does. They have hockey games there that are pretty popular, as well as an annual winter carnival that draws people from all over the country. </p>
<p>It’s not quite fair to say that either of these schools are in the middle of nowhere, as the Houghton-Hancock area is pretty populous. It’s no Chicago by any means, but it’s not Podunk, either. It’s actually my favorite place to be and I wish I lived there. </p>
<p>If you don’t like winter, you might be unhappy at Finlandia. It’s not uncommon for snow to start even at the end of October (though I think November is more when it usually does) and continue until April. Snowfall rates each year tend to top 100 inches. Google the Keweenaw Snow Thermometer to see what the averages are. Now, if you love winter, there are so many things to do around Hancock during that season. Lots of people go snowmobiling, and there are trails where you can cross-country ski and snowshoe. Finlandia is not too far from the ski hill that Michigan Tech owns, Mont Ripley. You can also drive further north to Mount Bohemia and ski there, or take up ice fishing on Portage Lake. </p>
<p>When you arrive in the fall, the Keweenaw is absolutely gorgeous and the beaches of Lake Superior will be absolutely wonderful. Take advantage of them. </p>
<p>I don’t have a whole lot more to offer you about the college itself, and I don’t know if you’ve already decided, rendering this thread moot, but good luck wherever you end up!</p>
<p>I would suggest you look at the majors they offer and their class listings: <a href=“http://www.finlandia.edu/assets/files/Catalog,%20Calendar,%20Courses/Campus%20Catalog%202009_11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.finlandia.edu/assets/files/Catalog,%20Calendar,%20Courses/Campus%20Catalog%202009_11.pdf</a> (majors are on page 36)</p>
<p>They don’t seem to offer many classes. For instance, in Math the only “college leveled” math class they offer is “Survey of Calculus” which doesn’t sound like a legitimate Calc class to me. All the others are things you probably took in high school. I didn’t look into other subjects but I would think they are similar.</p>
<p>Mainly, the overall question is, what is the more important factor that employers and and/or graduate schools look at: Is it (the fact that Finlandia is a relatively unknown school) or (how well you do in academics, service learning projects and extracurricular activites that you complete while at Finlandia)? But, which one?</p>
<p>According to their website, only about ¼ of the students live on campus.</p>
<p>It’s not a GOOD school. </p>
<p>It barely crosses the boarder of what a 4-year college is, at best. The University of Phoenix is probably more respected. That says something - something very bad. </p>
<p>Help yourself out and don’t give them money.</p>