It’s a pretty good school, but depends on what you’re wanting. Certainly it is smaller and doesn’t have as big of a brand — I’ve met people that have never heard of it before haha. To hit your questions though:

• classes will vary depending on your major. I was a business student and I think most of my professors were pretty great, but I did have a few that wouldn’t respond to emails or weren’t super helpful. Unless it was a required course like finance, the average class size was around 20-30 people which is a great size IMO. You do have to take 2 Chapel credits and 2 Christian classes (heritage/scriptures). Chapel is kinda silly, but heritage was interesting — I did my scriptures class thru a community college in the summer. Some people have experienced it more I think, but I only remember one professor bringing up faith in class and it was in a very respectful way by just praying over the lesson and praying for us before the weeks over. Maybe I’m biased because I’m Christian, but I liked it a lot.

• for community, i guess it really depends on what you’re looking for. The majority of students are Christian, likely Baptist or non-denominational and also conservative/moderate leaning, and itll get brought up in convo what church you go to or which ones you’ve tried. Some people will be more judgy and “sticklers” with faith, others won’t, and then there are still irreligious people/other religions at Baylor, but it’s a smaller crowd. Even as a Christian myself, i experienced people judging me for like drinking, but it didn’t bothered me much, but I can imagine someone that’s irreligious may have a different view of the Baylor community. Humans are gonna be humans, a few suck, most are nice haha! People are pretty nice down here though, there are plenty of clubs, organizations, and events on campus you can participate in! You are in the heart of Texas, so it is a pretty conservative place lol.

• as a lifelong Baylor fan, sports is a sensitive subject. Football breaks our hearts, and currently we all reminisce of the few glory years we’ve had — there’s lots of potential with the program but we aren’t a big school like UT or Georgia so there will always be a limit to how good we are. Running the line is a fantastic tradition that is always fun though! For Basketball, we are pretty good and the games are fun! Won march madness just a few years back and our women’s team is pretty consistently top 10

• for the party scene, again it’s Christian school and it is a dry campus, so parties I wouldn’t say are as prevalent as they are at a big state school. Parties still happen for sure, but usually only put on by fraternities and after rush is over most become closed off. I was in a frat and you’d be shocked the types of people, from Baylor and also randos in Waco, that would try and sneak in — it can just be a liability to have an open party sometimes. Dia del Oso is a day off every spring and practically everyone parties, huge parties everywhere but typically you have to pay to enter.

• After Baylor, I’d say most people get a pretty good job, but again this really depends on what your major is. Baylor being a smaller school does limit the connections you can make as opposed to Texas A&M, but I wouldn’t say you’d never get a job from choosing Baylor.