Grand Valley State University Top Questions

GVSU lacks diversity.

The worst thing about my school is how much it costs to go there.

The thing I hate most about Grand Valley State University is the paper thin walls of the dorms! I'm only half joking, but in all seriousness there isn't many bad things I can think of. I can honestly say I don't have any major concerns. The only thing that comes to mind is that I can't understand some of the teachers because they have heavy accents. I have to teach myself certain lessons or concepts because I focused my time in class on trying to understand them.

At Grand Valley State University, I consider the bus commute between the two campuses, Allendale Campus (located in Allendale, MI) and Pew Campus (located in Grand Rapids, MI) to be the worst thing. Since my engineering classes are located at downtown GR and most general education classes are in Allendale, I must take the bus to travel between classes like many others. It would be more convenient for me as well as other students to have general education classes at Pew Campus instead of wasting half an hour to commute between the two campuses.

The worst thing about my school was the mixed messages they gave to Computer Science students, who were working in the dedicated CS lab. This was a place dedicated to exploring computers and networks, and we were encouraged to use and abuse the network. However despite this, if a student was too involved in this process, and was truely learning and exploring every aspect of the network, they would get reprimanded for breaking the rules.

The worst thing about Grand Valley is that it is a dry campus so everyone assumes that it is not a fun place to be, so most of the frehsmen leave on the weekends making it hard to meet people and interact with your classmates.

I'd say the worse thing is that the school waters the sidewalks and plants trees that smell awful in the springtime.

There really was no worse part about GV. Honestly, the school is a great environment for scholarship, friendship, and school spirit. In my opinion, the only improvement GV needs is to appeal to a more diverse community of African American and minority students.

I can hardly identify the "worst thing" about my school since I willingly choose to attend and pay for it every day, though I cannot say I actually like the price of attendance. Overall, it has been an incredibly valuable experience that I may not know the full value of till I have graduated and begun a career.

The worst thing about Grand Valley is that some of the biuldings are a little old and the heating and cooling can be the extremes. This can make it a hard learning environment.

Academic advisors are never available.

Grand Valley State University is a very good school and I have enjoyed going there. The professors are good overall and there is a large variety of programs as well as extracurriculars in which you can get involved in. The one thing I have noticed though is that it is always under construction. I can't remember a time when something wasn't under construction. I am glad that the university is always trying to expand and improve but it can also get frustrating after awhile.

They charge for parking.

The worst thing i think about my school is that it is a complete ghost town on weekends (on campus). A lot of the freshman go home and or go to toher universities instead of getting involved and meeting other students here on campus. It's best to stick around, theres lots to do and lots of great people to meet, and freshman year is when you create the friend group you're most likely to carry with you your entire college career.

I attend the School of Engineering, which in my opinion is excellent. However, the liberal arts colleges are lacking. Many fields at Grand Valley are known to be easy, only slightly above a community college level. Grand Valley needs to focus more on academic excellence in their liberal arts colleges if they are going to stay competative.

It didn't challenge my mind enough

The worst thing about my school is that the walls are so thin in the rooms that you can hear everything going on in the rooms above you and in the hallway. This makes things very distracting sometimes and hard to do work.

The one thing I dislike about my school have to be that it doesn't offer Graduate classes in Music. I would love to stay at Grand Valley during Grad school, however GV does not offer any music grad courses. GVSU's Music Department is outstanding, so offering graduate level music courses would be the one thing I would like to change.

I absolutely love that we have an intramural tennis team, and that there are outdoor courts; however, Grand Valley should also have indoor tennis courts. I want to play on campus year-round. We could improve our team dramatically, and compete with other local schools.

In my opinion, the worst thing about Grand Valley is how incredibly expensive it is to live on campus. With the financial aid that I was granted, I am able to attend classes, but I would need almost $7000 in loans in order to live on campus. Luckily, I live close enough to Allendale that I am able to commute from home, but I would definitely have to say that the cost of living on campus is the worst thing about Grand Valley.