If I could provide a 1/4 star for this institution, I would have indicated so. Unfortunately, this is one school that has been around for over one hundred years (yes, it's true) but has barely managed to grow beyond strip-mall status. Meaning, there is a location in Stockton and one in Modesto - in (you guessed it) a strip mall. :) Your guess is as good as mine, perhaps the price to lease space was too good to pass up. Humphreys College: 100 years of Progress and here we are, here to serve: In a strip mall. Way to go!
Ok, so for starters, this school seems to accept anyone into its undergraduate program. I went to visit this place and when I went into the library, suffice it to say that I would not for one second leave my car keys, let alone an expensive (or not even expensive) laptop out in the open (which is understandable) but here, I was overcome with the feeling that "it" wouldn't just get stolen, but that "I" might get shanked. I was concerned that if I sat in the library too long, I would come out with a whole new outlook on life: gold front tooth, pants down to my mid-hamstring, and everythang gone be aight!
Seriously, on its face - don't take my word for it. Go see for yourself. Also, the law curriculum is typical 30% mandatory flunk. If you go and take a look at the graduation photos (in the law office), you'll see about 10 or less than 10 students per graduating class. Enough said. More than 50 begin the program. Additionally, the support staff hem and haw and pretend they don't know what you're talking about or asking for (and I'm being generous here -- they're "pretending," (wink). Kudos to the overweight gal who I was told was at lunch with the IT guy for a long long long time;). I guess I picked a good day to come out.
Ok. So, so much for my initial experiences with this school. Apparently, it might have a semblance of regional respect, but if you're from any cosmopolitan area or civilized region of the world, please reconsider. Take this as a warning - ok, a suggestion. A foreboding. Look elsewhere. The school has one library printer for all students.
Ok, so if the following don't influence your decision not to 1) Call this school for information 2) Not visit 3) Avoid choking on the bad air or 4) get mugged by someone here (most likely a thug-like student) and be subject to one of the zombie-like staff who will just stare right through you unable to help.
Then the following information should raise some red flags for you:
1) The staff are not well-informed. They will give you the run around. On top of the debt that you will most likely incur, you will be faced with brick-walls posing as people (they are called staff here). I saw this with my own eyes and ears as I wandered around the library and the law office.
2) The facility is one large middle school at the main campus, and strip-mall office space at the other location, located on a very (extremely) busy strip of highway (highway 99) in the middle of pesticide-laden cow town. I literally gagged from the smell. I'll describe it: dairy cow feces wafting across a very hot parking lot as semi trucks whiz by and 4 x 4s mow down errant random McDonald's paraphernalia.
3) This is one of those TTTTTTT schools that has a mandatory flunk-out rate of 35%. Gimme your FAFSA gangsta. Buh-bye.
4) I don't think that there are any (ok, "1" full-time staff members) full-time professor / lawyers.
5) Ok - the school has provided one printer for both the undergraduates and the law students -- in the library. Pssst -- the printer is over there, it's broken or malfunctioning or out of paper but the paper's guarded by a grumpy old man and a blathering young man (idiocracy) websurfer - both, zombie bricks whom they call "staff." I think the students are afraid to ask for more ink ("please sir -- may I have some mmmore...") or paper. It appears the school rations its students despite whether tuition is paid or not. Tough cookies for students, who I was told (by staff - ssssh) "don't complain," aiyt gangsta?
6) There are a bunch of lockers the size of shoe boxes that are leftover from when this place was a junior high, I think. Y'know, with the twisty combination knob. They're rusty and suffering from disrepair. Hmm - some law schools actually provide their lockers for students to "use."
7) There is more security staff at this school (because it's in a bad neighborhood and it's not out of the realm of possibilities - that the ghetto-type undergraduates might go gangsta on yo *ss), and I'm told it's because there are a lot of registered sex offenders in the neighborhood (you can actually see this if you google sex offender search by zipcode).
8) More security than say, oh, quality staff and students (lightbulb)
9) Your law class will have science projects in the same room while you're participating in the Socratic (because literally - some of the rooms are undergraduate lab rooms).
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