For the cons for BYU-Hawaii, number one, the school is kind of far away from downtown Honolulu, so it's kind of like 25 miles away, but if you don't have a car, you probably use the bus a lot, and it might take about like an hour and a half to get there, so it's really dreadful. And the second one is, you're going to get a lot of assignments. If you really want to come to BYU-Hawaii, you gotta be prepared, and plus you have to go to work as well, so time management is really, really important, and you have to be prepared for the weather. Some might be like windy, some might be like rainy, and so you have to get ready for the hurricane, so just be prepared.

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I found that the biggest cons for me of attending UIU-H had more to do with the expense of living in Hawaii than actual school. The school itself is great. I loved the program I was in. I was in the intercultural peace building program. Love it, but it's expensive. It's expensive to live there. The food is expensive. Travel is expensive and that was definitely a big challenge for me. Another con, and this is very specific to me, is I like having a change of seasons and that does get hard when it gets close to Christmas time and you want it to be cold because you're used to being cold at Christmas time and it's not cold. But I think there's pros and cons to that. I think for sure the biggest con for me is the expense of living on the island.

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Some of the biggest cons I can think of in regards to going to BYU-Hawaii, my first one is how expensive it was. I spent nine grand in one semester and that wasn't on anything fun except a five dollar t-shirt. It was on tuition, transportation, housing, and food, and so that's a big con for me. Another one is I feel like there are some broken systems throughout BYU-Hawaii. I do think they're actively trying to fix that and rectify that, but it takes getting things done, getting a job, getting just classes switched, things like that, a pain and a hassle. And then my last thing that I would probably complain about would be just like getting around the island. The bus is great, it helps out, but it is still time intensive, especially if you barely miss the bus. So those are probably my top cons.

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I would say that a con about BYU-Hawaii is that sometimes the administration can be kind of hard and what I mean is that the different offices like financial aid, the registrar, academic advising, they don't communicate well with each other and so they might think that academic advising does a specific thing but they don't and so they send the student there and you kind of get sent on a but you eventually get it figured out and it turns out okay but just hold on to documentation or keep a copy so that if something does get lost you can easily replace it.

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For the cons of BYU-Hawaii, there's only two that I can think of. The first one is very, very obvious. Everyone tells you this, Hawaii is an expensive place to live, and yeah, like there's no getting around it. It's super expensive, and you just kind of scrape by, but I mean, at the end of the day, you're still living in Hawaii, so that's great. And the second con is one that I've heard from absolutely everyone that's ever gone there and graduated from BYU-Hawaii, which is once you leave, you will always want to go back, and you'll always want to live in Hawaii again, so yeah.

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Everything is expensive. The living cost is more expensive than usually would be probably on the mainland and the food is more expensive. Even the fruit or the milk is very expensive so you have to look around the prices and what you can get and probably to cook more for yourself if you are married student. If you are not then you get the meals on the campus. Well, if we're talking about stores the domain was quite far away from the campus itself so one of the cons I would say being as a student in there.

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The bugs. It's a fact of life here, but it's a price that people are willing to pay to live in paradise. Another is when there isn't wind and you don't have any fans. It's kind of a death sentence when there isn't that breeze. We really rely on that to keep things cool here. But if you've got fans, you're doing good. The other downside is just it's away from a lot of city life. It's a small town and some people don't like that. But for others, it's a great thing to have that small town community feel.

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Some of the cons that you may experience is if you want to go shopping to a store, there's only a local pharmacy and a local grocery store nearby. So if you want to go to Costco or Target or Walmart or whatever, you will have to find a ride or ride the bus all the way to town, which can be over an hour one way. And so you have to like plan with roommates or friends or family. If you want a grocery list from Costco or something like that, it's something that can be an inconvenience, but you just have to plan out accordingly. And the other thing is things just cost more, but the experience is worth it.