Drew University Top Questions

I wish that I knew exactly how useful it is to have a car on campus or have a friend who has a car, since you can't have one freshman or sophomore year. It really helps, mostly with groceries; it's only a half hour walk to stop and shop, but you don't want to have to walk half an hour with groceries or similar bags in your hands.

Before coming to this school, I wish that I had known and was more aware of the amazing oppurtunites and challenges that Drew has to offer. I wish that I had known some of the wonderful people I wound up encountering, many of which have guided and helped me along my academic journey throughout my freshman year.

People are really friendly and helpful and always use that to better your education along with building yourself as a person and take advantage of every opportunities and resources (especially with small classes and caring teachers), but don't ever take advantage of the helpfulness to the point that you become lazy and unproductive. Try your hardest, it's for a short time and your down time will be during breaks (such as a month and a half long winter break). Better grades, not greater credits.

The administration (not academic advisors) are not very helpful when it comes to your needs. The financial aid department does not offer much assistance when students are in need of help; this is especially bad because Drew costs 59,000 a year. Besides this, I love my school because the education I am receiving outweighs the problems that I deal with.

It is an expensive school

I wish I had known to keep applying to scholarships even though my freshman year wasn't going to be a problem to pay, that I should save the money I earned from my first job, and that some of the "lifelong" friends I would make my freshman year would turn out to mean nothing later on while others will make you wonder how you ever lived without them.

I wish I had known that I would not be able to gain as much financial aid as I need. I wish I had known that despite being on the Dean's List all two years I have been here, I would not receive more merit based aid/ scholarship. I am in dire need of more money becuase neither my parents can afford the tuition.

I wish I had known how difficult the language courses would be. I took three years in highschool, but I never would've taken the second semester Spanish course had I known that it would be so much more difficult than what I was used to. I would have stuck with the first semester rather than trusting the palcement test results.

The condition of the living spaces.

I don't know.