tell me what you know

jangel86
Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:12:50 +0000

I’m a senior in highschool, but I’m taking a full freshman courseload at WPI:

Strengths:
+Projects Program (3 real-world projects, look great on resumes and give real experience)
+good engineering programs
+Quarter schedule, which means you take 3 classes at a time, for 7 weeks
+No classes Weds. (or just labs), which means partying on Tuesday night
+Pretty big Greek scene
+A week off in October
+Dorm rooms are pretty big compared to other schools, but Freshmen are really the only students that live on campus. (5 freshman dorms, and one upperclassmen dorm, plus some on-campus apartments)

Weaknesses:
-Not very strong humanities
-7 week terms, so a lot of work is compacted into a little time, making it almost impossible to miss class, or else you are way behind
-If you’re not in a frat/sorority, there is nothing to do on weekends
-Sports suck (although this year the men’s basketball team made it into the NCAA Divion III tournament for the first time in 20 years)
-3:1 male/female ratio.
-Worcester- it has nothing to do
-very small campus, and only about 1200 undergrads
-Freshmen can’t bring cars unless they have a job or special circumstance

If anyone has any questions about ANYTHING having to do with WPI, feel free to ask. And by the way, I’m not staying at WPI, I’m going to Georgetown next year.