Old Dominion University Top Questions

That they do not have track and field.

I hate the way this school does advising and class registration. You are forced to see your advisor every semester in order to get a hold lifted so you can register for classes. In my department there are basically only two advisors and if you don't manage to see them in their open hours before its your time to register then you probably aren't going to get any of the classes you need.

No football team.

Even though the administrative staff are friendly, sometimes they mix things up and lose important docuements. I've had some trouble getting my bill straight over the summer(2008) which was very frustrating. My advice to other students is to make sure your tuition is paid in full as soon as you can pay it.

Wish there was more of a community feeling around campus.

I consider the worst thing about my school is the city surrounding it. The school is amazing and I truly love it. However, the surrounding city isn't the best place to hang out in. There have been shootings and robberies regularly and I do not feel safe going out at night. On campus is very safe, but about three to four miles off of campus it can be a really rough area to be in alone or even with a few friends. I would highly suggest living on campus or commuting from a safer area.

gangsters that live around campus

The worst thing about this school is the lack of social activities accesible to commuting students. Most clubs meet late at night making it very inconvenient for students that commute to attend.

The worst thing about our school is how it seems to only cater to faculty and staff. There is such a ridiculous amount of stress to get an account hold fixed or housing errors fixed, or any kind of financial error fixed. It took my boyfriend two months to get the school to fix his financial aid problem. Its November now and we've been starving for 2 months because he had no refund and doesn't make a lot of money at his job. ODU starves people.

Being able to live on campus is very cutthroat, and off-campus housing is either really crappy or really expensive. Either way It's hard to find somewhere to live.

The worst thing about this school would have to be its location in the city. The reason for this is because of the recent robberies.

construction

The commute, the parking and that very rarely you have classes with the same people.

It doesn't advertise many school activities. student have to inform themselves instead of being informated by the different clubs.

Parking is a nightmare.

parking issues

The worst thing about my school is that they are currently undergoing construction on several different areas and they have a partially constructed monorail spanning campus.