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Liberty University

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Date: Mar 31 2016
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
Where to begin? I hate this school for so many reasons. I will start out by saying that I came to this school for the main reason that I was offered a full ride valedictorian scholarship. Also, my parents highly encouraged me to attend to strengthen my dwindling faith in Christianity. I have since come to regret my decision to come here, and honestly even the fact that I am getting my education for free does not make up for the hell this school has put me through. This school has destroyed all my remaining faith in Christianity and religion in general. I will explain:

1. School administration is a nightmare. For example, I have a sleeping disorder and was having an issue with my dorm situation being extremely loud. I went to housing to find it being run by students who forced me to move (with a 24 hr notice) several times in a hunt and peck attempt to find a better dorm. Only after being moved three times did someone suggest that I visit office of disabilities, which has specially reserved housing for people like me, and which I wasn?t told existed before then, or I would?ve gone there first. Overall, this was a 6 month process, through which I developed severe health problems due to lack of sleep. This pretty much sums up the level of efficiency and caring with which this school is run

2. Residential life is a nightmare. The first thing that makes it miserable is the long list of rules students are forced to abide by, which by the way, anyone on a sports team is basically exempt from because in order to enforce the rules, word would obviously get out that a team member got in trouble, making liberty look bad. As it is, if they did enforce the rules, the entire football team alone would be expelled by now. I have PERSONALLY witnessed many of them drunk, high, and trying to convince girls to have sex with them. Now it is true that students do sign a contract to abide by these rules, but I would like to mention the fact that the full rules cannot be viewed without a student account, which can?t be obtained except by officially becoming a student. In other words, one signs the contract without much idea what they are signing. I only found out about the ridiculous dress code, curfew (sometimes as early as 10:30), forced convocation three times a week, censored internet, and stringent moral code when I was moving in. Secondly, the fact that liberty literally expects you to maintain their dorms for them via strict cleanliness checks when they don?t even care enough to build dorms that hold up for more than a month is ridiculous. Literally, I moved into the brand new commons the first semester I was here, and barely a month in, paint was FALLING off the walls because the cheap labor Liberty hired had not bothered to prime them. Thirdly, Lynchburg has an insane lack of things to do. There is nothing here. Fourthly, If you get a power obsessed RA, you are screwed. This is because a lot of the rules have gray areas that are up to RA interpretation, for example, what constitutes a clean dorm room. I have literally had a roommate that was fined for a single drop of water on the bathroom mirror. Another good example is how far they take the no men in the girl?s dorm rule. I can?t count how many times I?ve needed a guy?s help carrying heavy groceries and dorm furniture only for my RA to tell me that men are not allowed to help. It also should be mentioned that never once in this situation has an RA offered to help. The last time this happened, I ended up at the doctor?s office with a ripped tendon from attempting to carry a heavy load up three floors. Lastly, this school does not build up Christianity, it wastes your time with it. All the classes are needlessly bloated with it even though there are a ridiculous number of required theology courses as gen eds. Convocation is an hour long church service three times a week that literally focuses more on how awesome liberty is than anything else (more on that later). Not only that, but it frequently runs late and students are not allowed to leave early to make it to class on time because convo is considered a higher priority than learning and because it ?disrespects? the speakers, without regard to the disrespect of the students and their time committed by convocation running late.

3. The course work is a nightmare. The teachers are not included in this, as admittedly, the teachers are one of liberty?s only strengths. I have yet to have a teacher that did not care about the students, and that did not do the best they could with the material they are given. That being said, they aren?t given much. They and the students are forced to work with an outdated program called blackboard because liberty is too cheap to upgrade as most colleges are apparently doing now. The assignments themselves are a total waste as they are too focused on brainwashing the student with liberty?s version of a Christian worldview, and not enough on actually teaching the material. This is true no matter the degree, and I can honestly say I have learned very little in the two years I?ve been here. And sadly, the school isn?t hammering a Christian worldview because it cares, but because they wish to advance themselves as the largest Christian school in the country.

4. Liberty doesn?t care about students, only about money and image. Liberty loves to market themselves as a school that cares. As a matter of fact, they love to market themselves in general. CFAW abounds with false advertising. The food is always much better, and students are generally discouraged from sharing negative views of Liberty with visitors to the extent that a student can be fined if caught. And it doesn?t stop when you are suckered into enrolling. Hardly a convo goes by without a promotional, self-righteous video about how wonderfully Christian Liberty is and all the amazing things it?s doing and sponsoring, and without our campus pastor brown nosing the Falwells. But this school cares nothing about the students at all. There is a lot of evidence that makes this clear. For example, they purposely oversell parking for the sake of making more money, even though this means students usually end up fighting to even park on campus, and are being shamelessly ripped off. Also the fact that convo is considered as a higher priority than classes, that students are forced to give up what little parking they have for parent weekends, football games, alumni weekends, and their dorm space for CFAW for the sake of making the school look good to attract new students, and the fact that students are accused of disrespect and punished for any view that opposes the views that liberty markets are just a few more things that make it obvious what the school?s priorities are. Liberty makes plenty of money, but they are too cheap to upgrade the program they use to educate, too cheap to hire real builders that actually do a good job on their residential buildings, and too cheap to upgrade their outdated and overtasked servers and routers, making using internet on campus a nightmare. I could go on for a while about the many ways Liberty fails to live up to its image.

To sum up, this school is run on hypocrisy. They brainwash students with their Christian views, but prove repeatedly that they do not run this school on the Christian attitude they preach. This school has disgusted me to the point where I want nothing to do with religion ever again. I can?t for the life of me understand why anyone would pay to come here.

               
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commentDont give up on Christ. Its not about what others think but what Christ thinks. The world is full of crud but Jesus is always a friend. Remember how he had to deal with hypocrites? Im sure He feels the same way. In your life will be many trials but He has overcome the world.
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commentI totally agree with the author. I too am currently attending Liberty because of the Valedictorian Scholarship. The administration is easily the most frustrating part. Somehow very few of my friends seem to find it as annoying as the author described, but I think that is because they are being brainwashed by the whole "Liberty is Amazing and anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about!" atmosphere. In some ways it has strengthened my faith, but for the most part the school's administration, policies, convocations, etc are just annoying. The funny thing is, students are known in the community as being anything but rule-following goodie-goodies. We're actually sort of hated. If you visit, do not be fooled by their impressive public displays, features, and facilities. They care more about their new recruits than current students. Even then they don't care about recruiting individuals, they just care about the masses.
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responseWhat a big cry baby!
commentThanks for the information. This helps me to have a better understanding of some things. I think there may be more to discover here. Please dont give up on God, because of how someone or something uses religion supposingly in the name of God. Remember, they are not God. But most importantly, remember God loves you.
responseThis is quite a review. In commenting on it, "Where to begin?" summed up my own thoughts. Whoever wrote this isn't lying. Or if they are, they don't know they are. This has got to be one of the longest reviews I have read on this site and I've read a lot of them. No way would anybody bother to fabricate this much.

Many hypocrites and liars hide behind the mask of righteousness, religious and otherwise. There are some disgraceful excuses for Christians out there. I can understand how this bad an experience at Liberty could turn you away from Christianity and religion for good. I don't think anybody could rightly blame you for that. But I would urge you to consider that if what you describe is what you found at LU, then that isn't Christianity you found there. Those were not true Christians or true Christian values.

This is a helpful and highly informative review. I believe that the author is telling it just as they experienced it. Everyone who attends a college or university, whether their experience is good or bad, should write as detailed a review as this one.

commentI attended some classes at Liberty and will say I heartedly disagree with your post. I can tell your comment would like to improve options for the student and teaching offered in the classroom, that is commendable. Some of the administrators and professors are, emotionally detached I would say. When approached away from or with classmates present, they are actually helpful. I know you had a bad experience and I 'm sorry about that . I feel pretty sure you wuld say you would want a relationship with some of your classmates and professors.
commentI agree with some of your review and think some of it is extra judgmental. You have to see that founders, teachers and board members of lIBERTY University were foster parents and part time ggrad students. I agre this makes them seem un caring and detached. :) This does not make them, "hypocrites." I really think that you can clarify ( which your peers and professors understand) is you want fair and equal opportunity and cnsdierattion beyond all GR.E.'s, interviews and transcripts. You're learning about the world and what participattion and leadership involve. When I saw the double standards occurring, I leraned to bull shit the gate keepers and fair haired children. I think the world of your courage. Good luck and Best wishes.
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