Idaho State University

I'm a sophomore here at ISU. I have had NOTHING but horrible experiences here. The housing is garbage, over priced, and boiling hot most of the year. This is a cheap university so you can't expect much, but we deserve more than what we get. Don't even get me started on the food! If you are reading this and are having trouble deciding where to attend school, DO NOT ATTEND ISU. Go anywhere else but here. The peope running this place are a bunch of greedy criminals.
1 7 years ago (23-04-2018)

These people are criminals. They are only after your money. I came from a private school that when I dropped out never asked for a cent. These people, however, charged me up the wahzoo for being an out-of-state student (whatever fair I wasn't in Idaho for a year yet). I find out in the middle of my first semester that I can get a tuition waiver, so I waddle my 8 months pregnant butt down to financial aid and find out what I can do to get that. First, they tell me the ONLY way to be considered an in state student is to work a full time for a year. Come to find out, that's not even true. Anyways, I get the waiver for next year. Well come April, I have my baby boy who has a cystic lung. He requires major surgery at 4 months old to remove that part of his lung. I try to schedule the surgery before school starts, but the surgeon only has certain times available. I have to schedule it when school starts. I'm now behind. Plus, I have my infant son who just had major surgery and I've been in the hospital for days. My husband is also gone for work a lot, so I have this brand new baby who is very sick, a house, a car, myself, and school to all manage. It's too much, so I decide to drop down. I email all my professors and advisor. Turns out I can't because the waiver has a credit requirement. So I have to drop out because I can try afford the extra charges. Well fast forward to Dec (that was Aug) I get a letter saying I owe 7000 to the university for dropping out. I get ready to call them and bam new letter saying if I don't pay it by Jan then it's going to collections. This is the first I've Heard about it. I call the University and I have to petition them in order to get it refunded. It is now in the middle of January. I have finally found out that they have only refunded a portion of that money. So I am responsible for about $2000 still. They also have suspended my financial aid meaning that I have to do another petition and order to even get financially and write an essay about how I can be more successful this time around. It is just 100% the most ridiculous and corrupt University I have ever dealt with. The headaches never end.
1 7 years ago (05-02-2018)

They did absolutely nothing to help the students whose on campus apartments burned down. They lost all their belongs, including laptops, and the school has done nothing. It's sad that these students spend thousands of dollars every year here, and the school could care less about them. It makes you question their policy and morals. It's just sad...
2 7 years ago (09-04-2018)

Don't expect to have any rights here. Staff treat you like dirt! Administration is run like a criminal gang. Stay far away! Don't be tempted by the cheap tuition, low cost of living in a boring ass town with Soviet Police, or low entry requirements.
1 7 years ago (31-01-2018)

Yep, some of the reviewers are saying the right thing about ISU.
3 7 years ago (07-05-2018)