University of Arkansas — Attraction in Fayetteville

This is gonna be kind of long but it'll be entertaining I promise. I can say for a school located in a small college town in Arkansas the quality of life and inclusive atmosphere is admirable. I never really felt unsafe here and it was pleasant. The Dean made decent strides to have a diverse and an all in attitude. However! The allowance of on campus carry was the most outrageous thing to have happen in my 6 years at this school. Let's not get political with my review I will focus on the "FOCUS" of the school. Sports. If you are not an athlete or honors, etc do not expect TOO many perks. From the buildings to the funding. Everything is associated with sports. GO RAZORBACKS! We have a new addition to our stadium now...oh and we have a study area exclusively for student athletes (Incoming student athletes this is actually cool for you though not gonna lie). Anyways I was very happy for that because we don't need new faculty buildings for our teachers whose offices reside in apartment buildings and extremely far from their classroom locations because there is no room on campus....... ya...PRIORITIES ARE IN CHECK HERE. The Frat and Sorority student organizations pretty much make up the population (so if you like that go for it ayyyy). If you actually want to have peers who have a sense of mind. Don't. This is not to say that the members are uneducated (They have decent scores and I've met some who are actually brilliant and fantastic friends). BUT GENERALLY they just don't have the most basic life experiences (a.k.a spoiled brats)...(like 7 1/2 out of 10 are gross and they never tip.... who does that.. those are like actually trash humans (last part was personal I will admit sorry) ) THESE ARE MY OBSERVATIONS ON GREEK LIFE ! GO GREEK ! Enough time wasted on that ughhhh ...I'd have to say department/faculty wise is person to person.. department to department. Some couldn't be less helpful while others are extremely so. OH AND PARKING SUCKS it goes up more every semester! Have a paper to write or exam to study for and want to come to campus SORRY you have to wait till 8 pm when it's free BUT GOOD LUCK FINDING A SPOT BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS HERE AS WELL! whew...the parking really get's me. OH AND DON'T CALL THE PARKING OFFICE WOW they are grade A prime cut jerks ( I wanted to say something else.....) Like I have never been so disrespected by a school faculty member ever until I went there. It's a 30 dollar ticket Susan-Bob chill out. I will say though...the food on campus is not bad! It's actually pretty good! ALL IN ALL I can't say I hated this school...but I do wish everyday that I had made a different choice. Anyways GOOD LUCK! p.s. ---- the art department just got a huge grant as well so if you're creative you should take advantage of that... the teachers are pretty amazing and scary at the same time, but I loved em! They'll treat you decent....maybe not some but you'll have to figure that out...

My son really liked going to UARK for 1 year, but if you are a pre nursing student, I would heavily advise going somewhere else. On our initial visit, they told us that 50-60% of the student end up in nursing school. At Orientation, after we were committed, they lowered it to 35% get in. At family weekend, they said 25%-30% get in. January 2025 they told me 20% will get in and when my son met with his adviser, they told him only 108 of over 600 students would get in or only 18%. They simply lied to us and many other families we spoke with. They talk about how everything is for the student, yet they spent 3 times more time talking about plan B instead of plan A, like nursing. Since my son wants to be a CRNA, nursing is a requirement to get there. They told us that he should consider medical humanities instead of nursing even though he has a 3.9 in honors college for prenursing and missed a 4.0 because of an 88.4 instead of an 89.5 in one class. They are out of their minds. They admit 3 times as many students as they should and hundreds of kids will pass their course and all their tests with flying colors and deserve entrance to nursing school but will not be admitted because UARK over enrollment the number of orenursing students. They just want the money and doesn't care about the kid and that became very clear as time went on. Why go there if there is no realistic chance to get in? They told me and my son that if he didn't get in to just take the next semester off and reapply, where there might be 700 to 800 applicants for 108 students. At Baylor, OU, UMHB, TX Tech, if you pass all your classes and tests, then over 90% of those students move on to nursing school. They might only enrollment 200 prenursing students for 180 openings so yours chances are much better if you pass your course and tests. This is not about how good UARK's nursing program is, as it is no better than any of the listed schools, it is about how they systematically over enroll the number of prenursing students by a huge amount only so they can get most of those kids to change majors and not pursue their dreams. We transferred our son to one of the other schools listed above because UARK can't tell the truth about its nursing program and they know it. When brought up at family weekend with the department heads, they just deflected and suggested other majors. That...

I currently go here and I love it, but some things are simply beyond frustrating. Once such example was a couple of weeks ago. I park my car at a friends house even though I live on campus because the parking passes are so expensive. Where the problem comes into play is during move out then I needed to bring my car to where I live so I could pack it up. While I had it there then I received a ticket for not having a permit. Normally I would say 'Okay, I understand this' but it was during move-out, (which I scheduled through the University) and I still received a ticket. After I reached out to parking and transit to explain my predicament then they told me that I was supposed to acquire a permit. The thing is, is that the UA staff member in charge of our move-out never informed us about that and now because of that then I am stuck with an expensive parking ticket. In the photo then you can even see my car stacked with all of my belongings. Even after explaining to multiple people at the parking and transit office that I was never informed by one of their fellow staff members that this was required, then they are still denying me. Furthermore, just the appeal process alone has a $10 'processing fee' and even if your ticket is appealed then you do not get a refund on that $10. Last time I checked (and I have worked several months in the technology industry) then having a system that automatically processes online forms costs fractions of a penny. I like attending here, but things like this make this...