I'm a 5th year senior this year at wmu and wish I'...

I'm a 5th year senior this year at wmu and wish I'd chosen a different school to transfer to after my 2 years at kvcc. I mainly chose western because living at home was the cheapest thing to do at the time, but I never expected it to be this bad.

It is a party school, so if you live at surrounding apartments or dorms, always wear shoes outside when walking to your car or anything else. Usually, there is glass everywhere.

Parking is super expensive with little parking spots for actual students, who by the way, are not allowed to park at parking meters if there aren't any spots to make it to class on time. If you end up going to western and want to find parking, leave for class 30 minutes to an hour early. Also, be careful driving around campus, especially in the parking lots, which students seem to be fine with whipping through as fast as they can.

Teachers aren't very adequate. There are some who are engaging and actually care about how you're doing in class, but most could care less if you pass or fail, as long as they get their paycheck. Some professors are really smart, but are boring and don't know how to teach the material. Also, most teachers will specify that the most reliable way to get ahold of them is via email, but I've had maybe 3 profs so far that have been quick and helpful with responding, all my other profs don't frequently check emails or just don't email you back at all, resulting in you asking them "did you get my email?" like an idiot the next class period you have with them.

If you do end up going to western, I would take Mark Orbe and Randy Ott. I loved both of these professors.

There are a lot of teachers I didn't really care for, but the worst are Katherine Propp and Onaiwu Ogbomo. Especially Onaiwu Ogbomo. All this professor does is copy facts from the texts and liters powerpoint slides with paragraphs upon paragraphs of text he reads word for word in a monotone voice, on top of his Nigerian accent. He is sometimes hard to understand and makes class very boring. He seems to be as unenthused as the students are to be there listening to his lecture.

Moving onto financial aid and what western calls "bronco express". They absolutely suck. If you're like a normal American student and have to take out loans, go through someone else. This is only my second time taking out a loan from them. The first I didn't have to worry about them splitting up between fall and spring semester because I ended up taking out my first loan in spring of last year. This year is a whole different story. Like I said, I am a senior and am planning to graduate after next semester. What wmu does is split up the federal loans you qualify for between both fall and spring, therefore I did not have enough to cover my fall classes because they won't let you put all of your loan money on just one semester. Soooo, my parents filed for a parent plus loan, which was denied because if something doesn't apply to you on the loan application, you're supposed to write "n/a" instead of leaving it blank.....which no one stopped to tell me when a bronco express employee was entering our application into the system right in front of me. They are EXTREMELY unorganized and uninformative. I've called multiple times the last week to see if the loan was processed and each time I was told "no", only to find out a week later, that it was denied the previous week. On top of them being slow and unhelpful, every time you go in to see someone, there is ALWAYS one or two people working, the rest are talking or ignore the students standing in line. Yes, I know they have other things to do, BUT helping students should be first priority. But....at WMU, the students don't seem to be a first priority in general.

I'm so ready to leave this school. That is, if I can find a way to pay the rest of my tuition off in time to register for spring classes so I can graduate..... -.-