Sonoma State University — Attraction in Rohnert Park

I would advise against going here if you want a quality education. By the way, what I'm about to say is not just my feeling, this is the feelings of many fellow students. Especially for transfer students, every other transfer student I have talked to all agree that our junior colleges were much better. If you do decide to transfer here don't bother going to the orientation, huge waste of time and money. Also the teachers are garbage for the most part, a few good ones, but not enough to make this a better school. Another bad part is you have to take a writing test before you graduate, it's called the WEPT, and from what I understand no other state university has this test to graduate and most people have to take it more that once to pass. Each time you take this test it costs 55 dollars. I could go on and on about all bad things at this school, but I don't want to write another paper if I can avoid it. I'm not even mad anymore, I'm just disappointed that I'll be graduating from here. Everyone I know had a great college experience and I was excited to come here and have my own. Now I'm just counting the days till I get my worthless diploma. In the future I'll tell people I went to a good school like Cal Poly or something, because I'm not proud to be a seawolf.

P.S. The town smells really bad a lot of the time because of the nearby agriculture. It smells like cow crap because you're breathing in cow poop. But nobody ever mentions that until you...

The ridiculousness over "religious intolerance" doesn't REFLECT the school. It reflects ONE person in a minor administration position. Seriously, learn facts. Anyway, SSU is small, cute, some departments are great like WGS and Hutchins while others are only okay. The campus is gaining in diversity(ie less 'white' kids) and evening out a bit in its gender ratio too. (At one point was something like 70% female) IT is still predominantly middle class and upper middle class white women but that doesn't necessarily mean anything bad. There are also a lot of so-cal students. Anyway, Cotati and Rohnert Park are average and somewhat cute suburban towns, it isn't far from farms and wine, Santa Rosa is a metropolis with shopping and the like, Petaluma is very cute and overall the school is far from bad. It isn't my personal cup-of-tea but it isn't a bad school at all. Their new student center and gym are both amazing! There are some issues with some students btw but nothing that should entirely stop someone from checking it out based off their...

I have been helping wife wife deal with enrolling in classes here as well as her homework and papers she has been assigned. I graduated from a CSU school down in Los Angeles - class of 17 and 21. Sonoma State is a TERRIBLE school. They have no money and therefore they have very few classes and professors; you are stuck with what they offer with no choice whatsoever. There is very little diversity of thought in the school and you will be ostracized if your opinion doesn't follow the "popular" narrative of the professor/classmates. Lastly, the professors and staff are not responsive to emails and they are largely unhelpful. It is a really pathetic school. In my view they should get rid of SSU and roll it into SRJC. If you have any other choice besides SSU, I highly suggest you give your alternative a good consideration. I feel bad for my wife that she has to deal with this place after the great experience I had at CSUN down in Los Angeles. Really pathetic. So...