Arts/Arch Majors at WSU

Wait, why do you want to go to community college for architecture?~

Youre right, its kind of like an elite community college~

the food in the cafeteria will give you the poops
if that helps

oh and i just looked at your profile
why the fuck would you leave colorado for washington?

^UW I could understand, but seriously, pullman?

hahah well i am applying to UW and others too. i didn't know much about wsu or pullman but i guess this helps....

If blacking out everyday from partying is your thing and living in a cum dumpster go to WSU

a guy in our program went to wsu for a year or so for architecture and said it blew. Now that wsu no longer has their 5 year professional program... not much reason to go there.

pullman is a miserable shithole in the middle of fields where depressed students resort to binge drinking to pass the time. Also no reputable ski area around for HOURS (yes hours)

go to UW, for the love of god

not really sure what most of you guys are talking about.  wsu is one of the top 10 schools in the country for arch.  i started in it but just decided it wasnt my thing and transferred to business.  in my opinion wsu is much more fun than uw because at uw everyone lives at home and everyone commutes to school so you dont get to hang out and meet as many cool people.  at wsu everyone there is a student and there is nowhere to go but to parties, so you meet a lot of people.  i know a ton of friends that love it so much they are staying there after they graduate.  i loved every minute of being at wsu, was on the ski team there, and would highly recommend it...


that being said, it is not for everyone.  but if you want some educated answers from someone who actually went there not just a bunch of morons that live in seattle hit me up with some questions.

You think everyone lives at home that goes to UW? Youve never been to the greater U-district area and actually kicked it.

And yeah there is nowhere to go in Pullman but to parties, (as mentioned before, you just re-affirmed that point). How can you meet more people in an environment where there are only students and they are all hammered? Seattle is one of the largest cities in the nation.

And lastly, I bet your friends that want to stay in Pullman after they graduate are either A) Alcoholic frat kids who will try to live "the life" as long as they can, B) have never been anywhere else, or C) never had friends before they found drinking with their brothers and are scared of the real world without them.

Go sing your fight song bro!

nah nah, WSU is not even close to top ten.

Top ten will include most, if not, all of the follow, regardless of what group/organization/publication ranks schools. Regardless of undergrad or graduate programs.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, MIT, cornell, UVirginia, Syracuse, UCincinnati, Berkeley, Penn State, Pratt, Washington University, Rice, UTexas Austin, Cooper Union etc

This below is a list from Design Intellegence journal from just a couple weeks ago. UW is getting up there, no sign of wsu. In order.
Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, University of Texas at Austin, Univ Cincinnati, Cornell, Virginia Tech, U Virginia, Berkeley, Washington Univeristy, Penn, Princeton, Clemson, Rice, Univ Oregon, Kansas State, Univ Washington, Texas A&M.

Hmmmmmm.  well this argument is pretty pointless since you have never been to wsu and i never actually went to UW so we are never going to convince each other of anything.

its totally personal preference, i visited the uw campus many times including western and wsu before i decided.  i would personally never want to go to uw or even wwu just because i did not really feel at home there. and no its not because i live in a hick town and want to continue it, i am about 20 min from downtown seattle.

all i know is i have like ten friends that went to uw and they said weekends were boring because most people would go home.  at wsu not everyone is an alcoholic like you think either.  i didnt drink at at until my sophomore year, and my five best friends there barely drink at all and one is in a frat.  yes wsu has a reputation for being a party school, but no one is forcing you to go party.  i had a ton of fun just hanging out hitting range balls going to work out, etc.....  there is actually a lot to do there if you are halfway creative.

anyway, it is pretty pointless to continue the wsu uw argument this girl just needs to visit them both and decide for herself.  also i would rather be 2.5 hours from schweitzer than 30 minutes from snowqualmie. 

and skier boy, when i started arch there it was 05 06, they said they were top ten but that has obviously changed.  either way its still a pretty good program i think and when i was in it i thought it was great.

YOU NEED TO GO THERE TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF, DONT LET ANY OF US TELL YOU HOW IT IS AS WE ARE ALL A BIT BIASED.  seriously tho, to the original poster, just visit both if you can and you will know which one you want to go to based on that, best way to find out.

^you're sure they didn't mean top 10 in the Pac10?

coming from the man whose location is ellensburg, please dont tell me you are making fun of wsu if you are going to central.......

ha, i could give a shit about what school im at, i ski over 100 days a year. think about that one.

Not tryin to hate, just trying to keep the clarity. wsu has probably never been in the top 20 in any arch ranking in the last decade or two. That being said, some really good architects have come out of there and done some cool things. Lots of success.

Top 10 undergraduate arch programs in '05 was similar to the above rankings. U. Virginia, Cornell, Syracuse, Cal Poly, U Cincinnati, U texas, Carnegie Mellon, Kansas State, Penn State, Pratt

U Oregon is pretty solid. UW graduate is getting up there.

I don't like to put down higher education, because I think that it is overall a positive thing for society, but comparing WSU to UW is like comparing a pinto to a ferrari.  Pullman does have it's advantages such as an endless supply of Busch Light, but it certainly is not in the same academic ballpark as UW in any field.  WSU makes the top 100 lists in certain fields, but certainly not the top 10 of anything.  When it comes down to it though, it's not the school, rather what you do at that school that really counts. 

yeah man no worries, sounds like the advisors that told me that when i was signing up for classes were kinda blowin smoke up my ass haha.  i guess i didnt really look into it i just took their word but yeah it seems like that might not be right, either way its not all that important anyway.

oh well, i enjoyed wsu, many people wouldn't but i don't think the uw would have been the right fit for me, thats why its great that there are so many schools there is one that everyone will like.

and to yommytacoe, you are so right, it has a lot to do with what you make of the school.  i mean as with everything there are the kids striving for perfection and the kids at the bottom.  there are a lot of cases out there where some kid at a lower "ranked" school is doing much more high quality and better work than a kid at a top ten school.

either way, both schools definitely have their ups and downs, but its just important to kinda decide for yourself since i know a lot of friends that went to a school for the wrong reasons and ended up hating it.  so to the original poster, i hope you find a school that you like and if you would like to know more about wsu i would be happy to tell you about my time there.  as far as arch related stuff it appears i am a bit out of the loop but it seems skierboy knows his shit so you might want to ask him about that stuff.

and to everyone, sorry if i sounded like a dick in previous posts i just get frustrated when people generalize about wsu when they have never been, so sorry if i offended anyone.

UW is really hard to get into, like, really hard while WSU advertises on late night television let's keep this in mind.

.....unless you are asian...........

If youe mean literally from Asia, then yes. UW is giving more and more spots to foreign applicants because they pay mad cash to go there