Jessica -
06/17/2021*This review is from a prospective student/visitor* Though I may not attend TCU, I have been a fan of the school since my sophomore year of high school. I am about to be a sophomore in college this fall! I really want to transfer here after my sophomore year. I have liked TCU for so long and I even used to watch the 2019 campus tour on YouTube often, trying to picture myself at TCU. Who wouldn't want to attend the school with such a beautiful campus and amenities offered? The school spirit caught my eye the most! There is one thing that I've noticed based on other reviews and my own observations. The TCU student body is predominantly Caucasian, and I'm very much aware of the lack of diversity. The Dean of Admissions, Heath Einstein, has A LOT to do with this. He and his crew back at Admissions are the people deciding who will get into the school and who won't, and the racial demographics of the student body haven't fluctuated much in decades. I also feel like there\'s this image that most of the girls are just a bunch of bleach-blonde, blue-eyed mean girls. Even someone that I met at a restaurant told me that, so she decided to go to Baylor...These are simply perceptions I have of the school. I\'m not trying to discourage anyone, because I don\'t even go here! I just want to know that I\'ll feel at ease at school if I attend TCU. I\'m a very laid-back, optimistic, open-minded, outgoing, and happy person. No one should have to try to fit in, I mean, it\'s college, not high school!!! Again, these are just stereotypes that I\'ve heard of and I want to make sure that they\'re false. I feel like I’d thrive at a school like UNT, but I really like TCU as well. I want to know that I won\'t feel like an outcast. I like both schools, to be honest. Anyway, in regards to my visit on campus, I had anticipated visiting TCU for years, and I finally had the chance to attend the “Monday at TCU” with my dad in February of 2020! When we arrived on campus, I felt kinda at home. It\'s just such a beautiful campus and it\'s something I\'ve never seen before. Two nice girls helped my dad and me find the entrance for the assembly, and immediately there was a large diverse group of people there to tour the school just like my dad and I were! Of course, I noticed many TCU Representatives, some Caucasian and many others people of color. When my dad and I were checking in with an admissions counselor, she noticed our last name was Spanish so she immediately started speaking in Spanish to me and I felt really bad because I do not speak Spanish fluently though I am of Mexican descent. At that moment, I saw Heath Einstein watching our conversation unfold and I felt like he was judging us unless he was just impressed with the admissions counselor. That\'s when I first felt like he was weird. The tours throughout the day were nice and the tour guide that my dad and I had was super cool and she even had the same major that I was interested in at the time. Another weird moment that I felt like I had was when this white mom looked like she was judging me as I was putting on my sunglasses. I know, I\'m probably just paranoid, but she looked like a b**** a** Karen. The last upsetting moment of the tour that I\'ll mention was that I accidentally took my dad and me into the Nursing School assembly for when it was time to explore our perspective majors, and when I said that I was actually supposed to go to the Speech-Path tour, every kid and parent just stared at me as we walked out and I was like, “Is that necessary??” (These were NOT TCU students, they were just kids touring w/ their parents, but they looked mean lol). The AFROTC Recruiter was nice and walked my dad and me all the way to the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic. I\'ll be honest, it was kind of a long walk to me, but I had never walked a college campus that big, I don\'t think. It really is a small school with a big school feel which I really like. We caught the tail end of the Speech-Language Pathology assembly. The director of the clinic and professor, Lynn K. Flahive, Didn\'t look too enthused that I kind of interrupted the last of her assembly, but afterward, she did show my dad and me around briefly, pointing out all the amenities offered in the clinic. She looked kinda mean, ngl 💀 It\'s no lie the TCU really does offer top-of-the-line amenities, no matter what major you\'re in. My dad was VERY impressed. It\'s definitely coming out of the tuition! The very last thing that we did for the tour was congregate in the basketball arena and took a survey of how we liked the tour. I forgot what I rated it, but I don\'t think it was bad because it genuinely was awesome aside from the little things that I thought were annoying. They gave us Insomnia Cookies and they were really good lol. Lastly, I spoke to this really nice sophomore and she was really cool and told me more about how she likes it at TCU, being in a sorority, and coming from an all-girls school like me! That pretty much ended the tour, and I really enjoyed seeing the school in person because I had anticipated that moment for a long time. There are a lot of clubs that I\'d want to join because I love being active in organizations and I would also really love to join a sorority because I had wanted to for a while. Overall, it was a great tour aside from the little things, but TCU really does look like a well-rounded school. I just wish their image would change for the better because, regarding the racial demographic of the students, a college needs diversity. TCU has no excuse. It\'s all Heath Einstein and his crew! They\'re striving for a certain image that I think is so stupid. I\'m glad that TCU passed the RRI and has taken accountability publicly for the racial issues that they\'ve had in the past of their school. I hope that if I still attend TCU in the future, I will be surrounded by more people that are open-minded and aren\'t the stereotypical, conservative, rich white kid. I\'ve been interested in schools like UNT and the University of Miami for these reasons. The schools are progressive and have loads of diversity. If TCU wants a better reputation and a lot more student enrollment, they need to work on their image and provide more diversity. I am a very light-complected Latina. Not that it\'s anyone\'s business, but I’ve passed for white many times. I\'m only mentioning this because I don\'t think I\'d be discriminated against, but being on campus around a bunch of white kids might give me culture shock since I come from a predominantly Hispanic city in Texas. I don\'t want to feel like I don\'t belong, you know? If even I\'m feeling that way, that\'s not a good thing. That means TCU really needs to either find a new Dean of Admissions or Admissions crew OR grow the amount of student enrollment so more kids from different backgrounds can also attend TCU. I want to meet people from all walks of life. I know color shouldn\'t have anything to do with it, but I\'m just being realistic. Diverse college campuses are better college campuses and I wish the TCU Admissions Office would read this whole thing, pondering what they’re doing wrong.