What can you tell me about North Carolina State U?

[Flaxbee]

My niece might get a v-ball scholarship to NCSU but my family and I know next to nothing about the university... anybody have any thoughts, comments, experiences, advice?

Thanks for any input...

[supernova]

1. What does she want to study?

NCSU is known for engineering and veterinary medicine, as well as crop sciences, etc.

They do have a sold English Dept too.

edit: Like Chapel Hill, it's a huge university. Will she like being in a big mix of people? Some kids like smaller schools, at least at first.

[Flaxbee]

4. she'd probably major in English or some other non-math-based

major...

She's from a mid-sized town, but isn't used to huge teeming masses of people. I think if she were part of a team that she could see as her core contacts, she'd be OK.

[supernova]

5. While the English Dept is pretty good

(my officemate is an NCSU grad -- we're both editors) I don't know about other Humanities depts.

NCSU is pretty heavy on the science and math. My mother once went there hoping to major in chemical engineering.

[Flaxbee]

7. thanks, I'll mention that to her..

I don't think she's given too much thought to what she'd like to pursue professionally, but now's a good time to start talking about it, I guess. She's only a jr. so nothing's official, she's just checking out the possibilities.

[BoX o BooX]

2. I heard they require all students to matriculate!

It's true! I read it on the internets!

[Digit]

3. My daughter did not like it...Psych major

She switched to a school up nawth.

[Flaxbee]

6. why not? Didn't like the department, or the school, or the area...

or all of the above?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. I attended NCSU , and I think Endangered Species is there now .

John Edwards graduated from there too ;)

I personally liked the campus . If she stays on campus I would prefer the center or western residential areas . Student life was good , the food was not so good in the dining hall although you have other places to dine on campus . I was a liberal arts major ( Political Science ) but like someone else said , NCSU is more of Engineering , Science , Computer , Mathematics , and Textile oriented school . Does she know what she wants to major in ? I suggest that she along with her parents tour the campus during an actual week of classes to get the feel if she wants to be there .

[Goathead]

9. It's an Ag school in Raleigh N.C.

Two of my cousins and my grandfather went there. I guess it seems pretty good, don't know that much about it academically. I went to a Dead show at Carter Finley Stadium once and had a friggin' blast.