A little over priced.

Really expensive, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Very few majors. Few amenities. Almost unsatisfactory food. Outdated dorms. Terrible communication from administration. Nurse has unreasonable hours. Nurse and Counselors break HIPAA law. Administration runs on speculation and unstable business practices. Staff are hired not on skill or merit, but based on who they are related to or married to that already works at Montreat College.

I'll admit, I have some questions about where the money from our ever-higher tuition costs goes. New napkin dispensers? Paving Appalachian Way three times in a year? What about the leaky ceiling in the dorms, or the mold problems, or a new gym? Then again, I really don't know what goes on with finances. It's going to look sketchy from any outsider's point of view, I'm sure. I transfered from Houghton College (NY), and they cost roughly the same, but Houghton is way nicer as far as facilities go. So I don't know.

Montreat is a fairly expensive school (~$30,00) but it may be worth it depending on what you want. The cons are that the campus has a ton of mold in both the dormitories and some of the other buildings (McLeod, for instance) and that it is in need of some repairs (Anderson Dorm needs to be knocked out and rebuilt). The pros, for me, outweigh the cons: the professors are great, the staff is incredibly helpful, the campus itself is small enough to be a real community and, to top it all off, it is nestled right in the mountains. Some of the most breathtaking sights I've seen have been of the black mountains around here.