Avoid this school at all costs. If you need any kind of financial aid, may God have mercy on your soul. I was on hold for 3 hours waiting for someone to pick up the phone today.
I'm going to spare all the details, but just know that it has taken a full year for my girlfriend to filed as an independent in-state student. She has lived her for almost three years. Every time we try to contact the financial aid office it take over an hour on the phone just for them to tell me that they need another document for me to submit to them. Sometimes when I contact them, and they realize that the call is going to take a while, they will just hang up on me, and won't call me back. So I have to wait on hold again for over an hour.
Also, can someone please tell the budget team to stop pooling all of our funds towards certain sub-par athletic teams instead of working on more practical investments for all students. i.e. making study abroad programs more affordable, dorm maintenance, and getting ADULT sized desks for us to sit in instead of me feeling like I'm in middle school every time I come to some classes with a table that I can only fit a bottle of water on?(I'm pretty tiny so I can only imagine how others feel).
The greatest research college in U.S.S.A. ! My son was graduated from there in 2002 and received a well rounded and grounded education. The campus is lovely and the Georgian people are the most adorable people embracing true family values. My mother was born there and I will always love her birthplace as my hometown and home state. Kudos to the state of Georgia for being home to some the finest educational institutions in the planet!! Thank you for your dedication.
This place is not worth your time and sanity. My advice to you is to pick somewhere else to go to school.
Top notch learning environment, with quality professors. The University embraces diversity and offers many opportunities for students and professors to get involved and succeed. However, their Financial Aid Office and Housing Office are mismanaged and at times can be extremely slow. Expect last minute holds, and to be frustrated.
I saw Roy Shavers, an academic advisor, and I think he has a strong personality and can be a bit disrespectful. Interacting with him felt more like going to court then an enjoyable encounter with someone that should be helping you. He did end up being helpful, fortunately. One example is when he said " oh you must have just picked a college and didn't know anything about the classes, etc etc.." Well, Mr. Roy Shavers, the point of students going to see you is to be advised on academics. My feedback for Roy is to be way more humble and have a spirit of servant leadership. This is lacking amongst GSU employees. My advice to other students, do yourself a favor, pick a different college.
I know the FA department is the bane of every student's existence no matter what institution but the one at State is especially impossible to deal with. Asking them questions is like repeatedly banging your head against a desk. They also frequently lose documents. I've been to a 2 year college that was more organized and had staff with better attitudes than the ones here. The only positive is that the wait times have been reduced significantly recently. Good job on that, seriously, 1hr+ waits were a bit ridiculous. Honestly all boils down to GSU taking on more than it can handle and not having enough staff to help or that are willing to, which is basically academic advisement in a nutshell. Of course there are more than a few faculty members that actually care about the students outside of $, these are mostly professors, but the majority of everyone else needs work.
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