SJCSue

I am thinking about transferring to GU in the fall. I was born with a bilateral mild hearing loss. I know a tiny bit of ASL. Does that make difference in attending GU? Is Gally a good school? What kind of neighborhood is the school? Are there any current students, former students or graduates on this board?

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Cousin Vinny

As a Gally grad, I may be somewhat biased.

Gally has an ASL program during the summertime for new students to undertake if they do not possess the requisite knowledge of ASL. Granted, this 2-3 week program is still inadequate and most new students will get lost initially in his/her first semester at Gally. However, the vast majority of such new students should eventually get better and become adequately proficient by the year's end.

As for your question about the general quality of education, it really depends on what line of study you are contemplating at Gallaudet? If it's Deafness-related, you've come to the right place. If not, then Gally is just like any other liberal arts university with strengths and weaknesses.

Overall, the undergraduate student body's educational acumen is lower than student populations across comparable universities. Thankfully, the university's graduate student body more than makes up for the shortfall.

If you are feeling a little bit adventurous (sp?), you can contact the university and arrange for a personal meeting with a recruiter or an alumni representative. This should help alleviate your concerns about acquiring ASL in midst of your studies and the quality of the university's academic offerings.

Endymion

I think Eyeth brought up some great things. If you are into a deafness-related field, I highly recommend you attend Gallaudet. If, however, you field is something like Computer Science or Comparative Literature, you'd probably be better off elsewhere. RIT and CSUN may have programs suited to your major.

I am slightly biased in one way: I usually think that people should attend one of the 120 Tier 1 institutions (Stanford, University of Georgia, Washington State University, University of California-Santa Cruz, etc.--I have a list if you want it), and I am somewhat saddened by the fact that none of the major deaf schools are first tier schools. I wish at least one was a Tier 1 school, that way deaf people may have even more career prospects.

deafdyke

Well she's going into audilogy That is a Deaf related field lol

Sugar Addict

I think not, once immersed into the deaf culture, one picks up really fast on ASL, if youre worried about that in that department

On a different note: Yes I agree with Eyeth about setting up a visit. It makes a huge difference in your decisions of attending or not. The environment plays a huge factor in your everyday life and to jump into the water without testing it is taking a huge risk.

Liza

Let's see.. I graduated in '02 from GU...

There is the ELI... they give sign language classes to deaf people, I think. I don't know much about it, though.

Do be warned, though.. I have heard common complaints by transfer students to GU about how some credits from the old college didn't count at GU... they were pretty steamed about it! Just be sure that GU will accept all of your credits before making the decision.

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