Wichita State University — Attraction in Wichita

I transferred to WSU as an incoming sophomore, and I have attended this particular university for about a semester now. It has been one of the worst experiences of my life. I was told I was eligible for the highest academic scholarship WSU provides (and I am still currently qualified) due to my GPA from my first year of college. Once I decided to transfer (relying on that academic scholarship), it took three or four months of daily phone calls and emails to get myself ready for the upcoming fall semester. The admissions staff is beyond incompetent, and again, it took three or four straight months of pulling my hair out to become fully enrolled and ready to transfer. Once admitted and ready to move halfway across the state, WSU contacts me and notifies me that due to overpopulation, I will be moving into Shocker Hall (not my choice of dorm) and I will be the third resident of a room meant for two people. Upon my arrival, on "move-in day," Wichita State police searched through my luggage without reason while I was absent parking my car in the nearest parking lot, located half a mile away from Shocker Hall. In clear violation of my 4th Amendment rights upheld by the Constitution of the United States, the police claimed that my bags were left open and that is why they searched its contents. I can guarantee that my luggage was most certainly not left open. Nothing was ever done about this and the staff that I reached out to ignored my concerns. Following this "seamless" beginning at WSU, I found out that WSU will not be awarding me the academic scholarship I am ever so in need of as my transfer process was not completed before the deadline earlier in the year (even though it took me several months of prompting the admission staff to help me enroll and meet all of their requirements). I will never be able to receive that one-chance scholarship now, even though my GPA still meets its standards. Currently, I am paying a TON of money out of pocket each month just to stay in the dorm since my aid fell short. I am struggling to make ends meet and still unsure how I'll stay afloat and continue attending WSU next semester, but WSU wants the outstanding balances paid immediately and they refuse to work with you in any form. I have contacted at least a dozen staff members about my situation but to no avail. I live in a small room with two other roommates, I share a single shower with five other people, I don't have a closet, I don't have a sink, and I have an old broken dresser and desk while my roommates have new and functional furniture. All of which I have sold my soul for and I still come up short. WSU has made me feel unwanted, violated, and completely and utterly cheated. The admissions and administrative staff are supposed to make a student's life and transition easier, not hell. If you are considering attendance at Wichita State University, please, turn back while...

This school will find anyway to get money out of you, this year they stole $2000 from me because they failed to complete my financial aid when they said it went through. (My twin brothers went through with no problem even thought we had the same parent plus plan) I was told by the counselors that my aid was in and it will take a few days to go through. Well I learned the hard way to triple check anything the staff says. I decided to not go back to school my spring semester this year and I received a letter in the mail telling me I owed them $2000 in TWO DAYS even though I wasn't enrolled. I was confused so I went in as soon as possible to talk to them but by that time they already sent me a letter saying they were sending to to collections in 15 days. They didn't even give me a chance to go in to talk to them before threatening collections. That is something you should not do to a broke college student that fast. Anyways I went to talk to them and they said they gave me multiple warings last semester through their E-mail that no one uses instead of sending a leader or anything more urgent. The only way they said anything could cover it is by enrolling again and spending even more money at this school to cover the bill for now. I don't have that option right now so they told me well not you have to set up a payment plan and give us $300 a month for 6 months because they can't afford to make it any longer and if you even miss it by a day it goes to collections. Well that was pretty bad and I wasn't happy with it but I sucked it up and paid. Later that week I went with my friend back over to WSU so he could pay his bill that they messed up as well and the same lady who helped me told him that all payments are due on the 15 of each month and if you miss it it goes to collections. SHE NEVER ONCE SAID ANYTHING TO ME ABOUT THAT! I was thinking I would have to pay it the same day of the month I first started payments. If I didn't go back with my friend I would have been sent to collections with a 33.3% increase on my bill! Do yourself a favor and avaoid this school unless you have thousands of dollars to throw at this school when they (and they will) mess up to pay for to their incompotnet staff and teachers that hardly speak English and can't even answer a question...

I know countless people who have attended here and I have heard very few positive things. The number one issues seem to be the amount of work professors are giving and the professors and academics focus. I attend another college doing some of the same classes and the amount of work they are giving is almost double what I am having to do for the same credit. Another thing, the academic programs seem to be a mess.

They have had great losses of professors recently, leaving classes packed and class times limited, further stressing students. Student stress seems to be such a great issue. Students feel as if they are truly downing regarding coursework and lack of academic support in it. Ive heard people say it is "the most amount of work with the least amount of learning" by multiple people I know..

Before my college years when looking at collages to go to, I would ask people with degrees and currently in college about places they recommend, and what they thought of different institutions, and very rarely did I ever hear anything remotely positive about WSU, as it seemed to be mostly complaints and/or bad institutional policies. I currently attend Butler and have never had an issue with them, and I tell my experience to WSU students, and they almost always are shocked by, in their words "flexible, easy, and non stressful" it must be. WSU says they have an issue with funding, yet are building more and more while charging more and more on tuition. I dought their funding issue is because a lack of students, but rather mismanagement of funds based on making the school look good from the outside vs. actually making it good on the inside where students are directly...