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The fall 2020 acceptance rate for Gallaudet University is 66%. That means, out of _____ applications received in 2020 , _____ students were offered admission. The number of males who applied was _____ vs the number of females which was _____.
What should every freshman at your school know before they start?
Figure out what your priorites are about the schools you attend; do you want a social life, discover your identity, work toward a career goal or the cultural experience from the city/area the school's in? Once you narrow those down you can look at which schools meet those criteria and go from there. Also a visit to the campus is strongly suggested- an overnight visit. That way you can get a peek of what the nightlife is like, even if it's from an outsider's point of view.
Also you could ask to meet with a professor and perhaps ask for a sample of a syllabus just to get a feel of what a course's expectations are like. That can make a difference for a syllabus can reveal the amount of homeworks, teaching style and rules in a classroom. Some schools are a great deal more flexible than others. Others impose more homeworks, projects or some prefer a seminar style discussion.
If you're interested in an extracurricular activity, go to their offices and find out how it operates and see if you can get involved. All of those factors can help one decide.
Read all 40 answers What do you consider the worst thing about your school? Why?
The worst thing about Gallaudet University : cost of education. The cost of education is expensive as compared to another colleges in USA. You are able to request assistance to cover the tuition such as FAFSA, scholarships, and grants. Approximately, 80 {4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} undergraduate students would be able to have some kind of assistance with financial aid.
Read all 12 answers Describe the students at your school.
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Read all 10 answers What's unique about your campus?
The best thing about my school is the fact that it is a very diverse school. people from all over, different backgrounds, different growing up cultures. Gallaudet is a university for the Deaf, it has students from all over the country most are Deaf or hard of hearing, some are hearing but have relations with those who are Deaf or hard of hearing. But one thing is in common with everyone in this school, they all know about the Deaf and its culture and history, they all understand the difficulties and advantages of Deaf and hard of hearing.
Read all 10 answers What kind of person should attend this school?
typically Deaf or hard of hearing students, and of course those hearing students who grew up with their first language as american sign language because their parents are deaf, or students who know american sign language and want to pursue a carreer in interpreting.
Read all 8 answers Describe your favorite campus traditions.
Our school is best known for being the only Deaf university in the world. We're known to be very accomodating towards Deaf people, and while we're not a perfect university, we do try. We have this awesome, tight-knit sense of community where everyone knows each other (wait...that could be a bad thing too!), and the alumni is very involved, since they were Deaf, too, and some of their kids attend Gallaudet also. We're also known for striking protests when our President doesn't meet our needs. We're, in two words, Gallaudet University.
Read all 6 answers Describe how your school looks to someone who's never seen it.
Strongly cultural yet lacking in promise for its students.
Read all 6 answers What kind of person should not attend this school?
A person who wants to avoid alcohol but feels weak in that area. A person who wants to focus on their academic career without distractions- there will be a lot!
Read all 6 answers What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?
I wish I had went to the YLC so I could have made friends prior to enrolling at Gallaudet University.
Read all 6 answers What's the most frustrating thing about your school?
There isn't any frustrating thing about this school.
Read all 5 answers Here's your chance: Say anything about your college!
Students associated in any way with Speech Science: Prepare to go up against a wave of resentment. You can either stay and fight, try to change minds and attitudes about what it means to be a culturally sensitive SLP or audiologist, or mentally disengage by shrugging and saying, "whatever. Not my problem." The rest of the student body will expect the latter.
Read all 5 answers What are the most popular student activities/groups?
I am not a good judge of this one - football games seem popular. There is a vibrant party scene. Gallaudet is in the middle of DC, though, a lot of people take their social lives off-campus.
Read all 3 answers What are the academics like at your school?
I am graduate student so my experience is probably not representative of the average undergraduate, but my impression is that the majority of academics have been really, really easy. As a rule, professors have been standoffish and not very interested in teaching. Homework assignments are often reading comprehension checks and there is rarely time for creative discussion.
Read all 3 answers What is your overall opinion of this school?
In the big picture, I believe Gallaudet is struggling right now with its image as the cultural Deaf Mecca where everyone signs pure ASL and attends Deaf Power rallies and the encroaching reality of a deaf world that is changing; more students coming from mainstreamed backgrounds with weaker signing skills, oral backgrounds, and avid users of amplification technology. There is a deep ideological clash between these two camps and it results in a very fractured social scene; over there are the hearing kids, here are the oral hard-of-hearing, there are the late signers, over there are the mainstreamed ASL-users, there are those who sign SEE, those have Deaf parents...and so on.
Read all 2 answers What is the stereotype of students at your school? Is this stereotype accurate?
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Read all 2 answers What are your classes like?
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Read all 2 answers What do you brag about most when you tell your friends about your school?
I mostly tell my deaf friends about, how many different kinds of sign language there at Gallaudet. Also, how there are diversity of people from all over the world and friends from different countries. I tell my friends, from home, how easy to make friends there and how the professors are flexable with the students. The university is really a awesome place to go for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and how we have our own culture in school and we have our own world there and freedom.
Read all 2 answers What is the stereotype of students at your school?
Everyone is Deaf and really into the Deaf-power movement.
Read all 1 answers Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?
Not really. The majority of the student population is audiologically deaf or hard-of-hearing, but they span the gamut culturally.
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