I'm wondering if the false information is from bad communication, lack of research, or the schools giving wrong information. Certain things about my schools information tended to be sketchy. First, it says there is close to 5,000 students on the campus. . . yeah right! There's MAYBE 4,000. When I was there there was 3,600. I know for a fact they were itching for housing at that point, and I know NOW that they haven't added any. There's no WAY they could hold that many students. Another thing that got me was the percent of students living on campus. They say 25%, yet it's a REQUIREMENT for students to live on campus, unless commuting, and there are very few commuters, most of the students that attend Shepherd are out of state students from Maryland. If I had to guess a percent it would be like 65% live on campus. 47% of classes are 20 or less, I'd say about 60%, 2% over 50--I've never seen a class over 50 there. A lot of the class rooms are tiny, smaller than my highschool class rooms--and my high school graduating class was 98. But the one that REALLY got me was the stats on Greeks. It was beyond off. They were correct in the number of fraternities and sororities as far as social organizations go, but they didn't include professionals, but number of fraternity members 1%, number of sorority members 1%. That is so wrong. I think the school provided that information because it's been known now for a long time that the school officials would like for the greek organizations to die out. Out of all students living on campus, I would say that 50% are greek, off campus students- 20%.
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