Eastern Florida State College

To start off, I graduated high school at the age of sixteen, and enrolled in BCC when I just turned 17; I'm very intellegent. I'm not angry because I was too unmotivated to pass my classes. Going to BCC was a waste of my time. My Communications teacher, who of all professors, should speak English, didn't. At all. She assigned at least an essay a night. Not a page long essay, oh no, she assigned a 1000+ word assignment EVERY CLASS. Because I was seriously injured in a car accident, and was forced to withdrawl in the middle of my second semester, they revoked any finiancial aid I might be able to be granted, but there's a catch. In order to get my financial aid back, they forced me to take 19 credit hours in one semester. That's six classes. I was 17. Working 35 hours a week. The hag who called herself an advisor, who I belived was helping me when she said "I will register you for teacher's with a laid back reputation", screwed up any chance for college I might have in the future. She convinced me to take communications 1, world religions, college algebra, general bio, sucess strategies, and speech comm, all in one semester. These teachers had me AUTOMATICALLY withdrawled from the courses if a student missed more than one day.

Good luck on getting any financial aid questions answered. Every semester, they seem to get even more rude and hostile.

Buy your books at an online bookstore; they are out of almost every textbook within two days of registation days, and they seem to think it's funny to "forget" to order books.

Campus security would rather chase down people smoking cigrettes, then handle real security issues, such as the criminally insane man in my speech class who told everyone in the class he was going to hurt us. word for word.

What else is wrong with this place?hmm.... oh yeah! dont let any "professor" hear you talking about any of your personal problems. they will try and pry into your life like they know you. DON'T GO HERE.

1st Year Female -- Class 2014

University Resource Use/ spending: B+, Innovation: F

Don't go.... and if you must NEVER TAKE A LOAN FROM THEM NO MATTER WHAT THEY PROMISED ABOUT THE LOAN OR EDUCATION. You do not need to take a loan to qualify for grants!

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

I attended BCC as an out of state student, hoping to establish residency while paying out of state tuition and living there for a year. Upon my first visit to register for classes, the snobby lady at the front desk who yells at people and treats them like garbage did not set the greatest first impression. She was not just having a bad day. She is like that all the time. The whole pick a number system is completely ridiculous. For this place to be called a college, that system is a disgrace. A 6-year-old could have come up with a better system. The advisors tell you to take all the wrong classes, and the placement exam is probably rigged to squeeze an extra buck out of you. How does someone who passed Pre-calc, Physics, and 4 years of English in a Northern Virginia high school with an "A" end up in remedial math and reading improvement where they teach you how to factor polynomials and read faster?

BCC is a joke. I don't understand why the administration staff has to be completely arrogant. Even the guy running the testing center has no regard for students! When I went in to take a scheduled exam, I had to wait for 20 minutes for him to get off the phone. There is a waiting area outside of his office, and while I was waiting there in plain sight for him to acknowledge me, and all he did was get up and said, "You need to wait outside, in the main lobby... I'll come and get you when I'm done." I went out to the main lobby and the watched the bastard walk out of the testing center with his jacket on like he was going to lunch and never saw him again.

The teachers there present little/no challenge, except for the humanities teacher I had who didn't actually teach anything. He just stood up there and talked about random things completely unrelated to the materials needed to be covered in the course.

After having lived there for a year, and getting ready to register for my 3rd semester, I was still considered an out-of-state student because some bill was supposedly passed during the year that I was not notified about. I spoke with the Dean, just to be treated like a bigger piece of garbage, and finally had it. I wised up and moved back to Northern Virginia and attended a real community college. If you are considering paying out-of-state tuition here, hold on to your money. Wait for a year... or wait... more than a year, and maybe, just maybe if you're lucky, you can get residency. Having the connections at the job that I did have, the Dean of Daytona Community College offered me to go there with in-state tuition because he said that I did indeed qualify, and that there was no bill or whatever kind of non-sense BCC was making up, however, I decided to go back to Northern Virginia anyway to actually challenge myself.

1st Year Male -- Class 2007

Campus Aesthetics: A, Education Quality: F