University of Maine Top Questions

Financial aid is not as easy to handle as the university says it is.

The University of Maine is a great school with clubs/organizations for every type of person, classes and opportunities to help a student get further in life, and ways to make dreams come true. However, what I would change is the location. While Maine is lovely, the weather is freezing and not enjoyable to walk in. If there could be more parking, then maybe this would not be as big of a deal, but as of right now, it is really cold.

I dont know what the worst thing is. I like pretty much everything about it

The school has very low diversity and parties are everywhere.

The worst thing about the University of Maine at Orono is the class sizes are a bit large. Why this is a bad thing is because it is hard for your professor to give you attention to help you learn as they are teaching to over a hundred other students.

The dorm life is the worst thing at UMaine. Some dorms are really nice to live in, typically the engineering dorms and the ones farthest from the parking lots. Many of the others have reputations as party centers and you typically don't want to go near the bathrooms on a weekend.

The worse things about my school is the lack of racial diversity but they do a good job in trying to establish groups and programms to increase the comfort levels of minority students. As a Hispanic student, I didn?t think racial diversity was going to be important because college is about expanding your education, but I have learned that there needs to be some social aspect to college to make life easier. Having students of similar racial background gives you someone you can relate to on a cultural level, which i believe is important because your're not overwhelmed.

The worst thing about my school is there are not enough entertainment venues outside the campus setting.

nor enough financial aid

The thing I would consider the worst, for me, would have to be the drive. The drive is 4 hours long and i don't have my own car so I have to get a ride home with someone else everytime. I would have bought a car, but my money had to go towards funding my college education.