Brigham Young University-Provo Top Questions

What was frustrating to me was how competative some of the students are. All they care about is getting a good grade for graduate and/or professional school. I wish they cared a little more about learning the subject. Their competative natures led them to complain about assignments and tests that the professors would give. The assignments and tests were meant to show how much we learned. The competative students wanted a good grade for the least amount of work possible.

BYU has strict policies, which are wonderful to keep standards high, but can sometimes be annoying.

Grading curves.

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They take the best A students from all around, shove them in classes together, and then curve the grades giving grades A through E. So if you are not the best of the best (even though you are smart and hard-working) you only get average grades.

I would probably say the high academic stress that is present. The type of students that attend BYU are very dedicated to learning and doing their very best, so there is a lot of pressure to do extremely well academically. This is a good thing, but it can be frustrating when you feel like all you do is study and have little time to have a social life. This school is definitely a social bouncing place, however, the pressure to excell is always there.

Science tests can be intense an often last over 3 hours.

The politics of the school. The heirarchy of the school makes it so hard to get anywhere. I feel lost most of the time but I don't know where to ask for help.

The most frustrating thing at BYU is the lack of diversity. I feel that a lot of the people here are exactly the same, and it's hard to make friends sometimes or meet people who are different. A lot of the people here feel like clones of each other, all coming from sheltered Mormon homes. I myself am Mormon, but I feel the people here take our religion to an extreme level, one that even I'm not comfortable with.

The financial aid department is very unorganized. They require you apply for their financial aid, drag you out, and then after a couple of months, you ask them and they say there is no financial aid available. It's been extremely discouraging.