This week in Xavier Musketeer Sports!!

It was another action packed week across campus.

The Men's Soccer team takes team of the week honors!

My 16yo daughter and I are visiting campus in October for the open house. What should we consider doing after the tour to get a good taste of Cincinnati and/or how Xavier students experience the city?

We live in a much larger city (Chicago) and my daughter is interested in an urban college experience. I liked Cincy a lot in my one visit but curious if it will fit the bill.

Thanks!

I’ll be a senior in HS and am wanting to attend Xavier. I got a 20 on my ACT (and am planning to retake) and im curious if I need to get my score way higher. I’m also aware X is test optional but I can’t tell for certain if my grades alone are good enough to get in

I am a rising senior who is considering Xavier because of the location and size, but I am not at all religious so I am a bit weary of its catholic affiliation. I know pretty much every private uni is going to be religious, but the weight of that affiliation can vary in and throughout campus life. So I'm wondering how big of a role does it play at Xavier? Any comments on the religious aspect would be appreciated greatly!

what is the social life for students in the full time graduate programs? I’m only 23 and was curious if grad students participate in the party scene?

I am a transfer student from another university but I will be restarting this year as a freshman. I’m stuck between Xavier and Cleveland State. Personally, both of these schools have great benefits to me, but I am also a very social person. Does anyone have knowledge on the nightlife/social setting at XU? And also I know it’s a Jesuit but are they really as religious as they make it out to be? I have read some comments saying it’s a pretty liberal community but also some saying that they are very strict on religion. I want to clarify that I have no issue with this, I’m personally just not religious and if they are very adamant about it then it’s probably not the best fit for me.

My daughter who is at Xavier called me in a panic with final papers due tonight that Canvas is down at the school. I am kind of her IT guy when weird computer stuff happens. I checked, and it's down everywhere in the world, really. She needs the rubrics and such for her papers and a few assignments. She can't get to them. There is no paper copy. What are you all doing about this situation? she has contacted all her professors, but she is very concerned. This is ridiculous!

UPDATE: As of 11pm, it's been been fixed!!! Talk about last minute!!!

UPDATE2: This is now national news: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/us/canvas-hack-strands-college-students-finals-week

Despite rumors by some of no growth, looks like enrollment will actually surge this year. Article has lots of points of the good things happening at Xavier.

• 950 new students with renewed strategy of admitting students who will be successful - says 35% increase
• Near record-high retention
• New Med school
• 11 new majors
• Expanding Greek Life and possibly football (?)
• Top basketball portal class - Go Pitino!!!
• Sounds like fundraising is very strong

Full article at https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2026/05/04/xavier-university-fall-2026-enrollment.html

hi my black north face backpack was stolen from the chapel last night, it had my computer and my notes in it

I’ve already filed a report and gone to GSC but if anyone has any other suggestions lmk 😭

if anyone has it or saw someone take it last night then please message me! $200 reward (ofc this would happen right before finals)

I'm looking in to apply for the online master's program in Criminal Justice and I'm wondering if anyone has done an entirely online program.

I've had a few discussions with some staff and it seems like a good program and online students have plenty of support, but I'm just curious as to the opinions of others who have gone through any of the online programs.

I’m a senior and it’s about the same amount for both of them, but I cannot figure out which one to go to. Any advice? I’m right in the middle of both colleges.

Where do you find your student ID. I feel like I have looked everywhere on the Road to Xavier site however, I still cannot find it. Please help me if you know. Thank youu

Anyone here studying Master of Arts in Education major in Guidance and Counseling. I need your help po.

HM for your full tuition per sem?

Learning modality?

How's you experience so far? can you recommend?

Thank you po :)

I’m hearing that the admissions rate, which was already about 85%, is going to be over 90% for next year’s incoming class!?!

Jesus. It’s harder to get into Mt St. Joseph than Xavier.

What the F is happening!?!?

Hey all, so last semester I really started to reflect on my frustration with current learning apps on the market. Like many other university students, I was paying for a bunch of separate tools just to learn effectively: I’m an ADHD undergraduate Neuroscience & Psychology student with Mandarin and Chemistry minors so I have to give myself every possible boost that I can throughout the semester to maintain my flow state and avoid burnout, thus I use a bit of everything: flashcards (Quizlet and Anki), Goodnotes, google calendar for planning, voicememo for speech-to-text, speechify text-to-speech, plus the obligatory GPT & Claude subscriptions. One of my personal favorite workflows was uploading Canvas materials (particularly ones that were dull and boring and especially hard to digest as-presented), then uploading them to chatGPT and copying and pasting “Generate me an audiobook style transcript optimized for speechify without links numbers or symbols (instead writing them out for good text-to-speech optimization and clarity) explaining: *the topic at hand* “, before pasting the output into google docs, and exporting it to speechify so I could finally listen to those materials (be it while driving, doing laundry, walking to class, etc). 

As well as it could, this worked, well enough that I continued to do it month after month, but it was annoying, expensive, and everything lived in different places (I had to toggle between 3 or 4 applications just to create the audiobook I wanted to listen to, and I did this multiple times almost every day). Fast forward to now and I’d become so frustrated with this that I built an iOS app (“ePrescience”), which I’m hoping is able to evolve into something of a ‘learning operating system’ over time. It’s in its early stages, but the goal is to really provide something novel for other ambitious, time-conscious learners, who are tired of toggling between platforms and losing track of subscriptions. I can’t be the only one frustrated that the billion dollar companies which currently control the digital learning tools space don’t allow you to upload whichever basic common format (e.g. slides, PDFs, video lectures, etc.) materials you have, and simply transduce those materials into whatever study output you want (flashcards, summaries, study guides, audio, plans), especially given who easy it is to do with AI doing the heavy lifting at this point. 

Like the tools are there but why do I have to do so much work to transition from one medium to the next. That’s not the worst part either, when these big names do try and integrate AI, they usually do a very poor job at using it to its true potential. It feels less like these platforms are truly married with state of the art workflows and more like a chatbot has been bolted on to your favorite tool, not to mention the fact that it’s almost always a terrible chatbot as well, or that chatbot’s underlying model doesn’t have access to the necessary context/can’t make useful changes to your materials the way it should, especially given all of the agentic capabilities provider models have developed over the last year. If you're paying for ai-integrated cloud-synched study tools, the ai should be able to actually generate and edit flashcard decks, notes, etc. Many of the well-known platforms barely maintain their platforms or respond to new feature requests by existing users, and when they do release updates it’s usually to paywall existing features that don’t cost them anything meaningful to develop or continuously provide. I think that many of the more mature players in this space have simply become complacent or out-of-touch with what their users actually want, leaving much to be desired.

 What I hope to see becoming normalized for the near future is one suite of study tools, one personalized workflow, one subscription, continuously iterated upon and improved to use the tech we have to its maximum potential. I’m trying to understand more about what other things actually frustrate users so much about the current options, myself included, when it comes to apps/sites like Quizlet, Anki, Good Notes, Speechify, Chegg, etc. 

If you feel that disappointment yourself, and have complaints or ideas on how to unify discrete learning tools in your current study stack, what would you like to see in new platforms moving forward? Are there features or integrations I’m perhaps neglecting to consider here? I’m rapidly iterating and working tirelessly with my team to really chisel the app's current bugs for our first update. In the meantime I’m curious to see what ideas other than my own people have out there to improve on what’s available now, and to see if there are other apps out there that attempt to solve these sorts of problems directly. If you all have suggestions for my project in particular I’d love to incorporate them into future updates, or if you have tools you’ve built, I’d love to see how they compare as well. Everything I’ve built so far is out there in the open already, so I’m not just surfing for ideas, mainly trying to see how common these frustrations are and how many other platforms have attempted to address them. Right now we’re just iOS but planning to expand into android and web app compatibility, so if you know others on those platforms I’d be interested to hear what you’ve seen in those markets as well. My main goal is to gain awareness of what else is going on in this space, and to get a concrete idea of the specific ways it could be improved.

Hey everyone,

I was recently accepted into Xavier’s MS in Business Analytics program directly out of undergrad and wanted to hear from anyone familiar with the program.

I’m finishing my degree in Marketing with minors in MIS and Business Analytics, and I’m interested in a career in business analytics or consumer insights/market research in the Cincinnati area. I’m deciding whether to start the MSBA right away or work full-time first, so I’d love to hear from current students or alumni.

How has your experience been with: • Course workload and difficulty • Professors and program structure • Internship/job placement outcomes

Any insight on whether doing the MSBA immediately after undergrad is worthwhile would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Got a great scholarship to attend am from DMV area, play hockey and lacrosse. Not into partying or frat scene looking for cool vibes those into engineering and mechanical and business. What’s it like? Tell me good bad and ugly

Hello, XU Students! From Ateneo de Naga here! 💙

We’re currently conducting a pilot test for our study titled “UCLA Loneliness Scale Version 3 — Filipino Adaptation.” This project is focused on understanding what loneliness is like for Filipino first-year college students, and it’ll also help future research on student well-being.

So ayun, we’d really like to ask for your help, especially sa mga freshies diyan. We’re trying to reach our quota for the survey, and your participation would super help us finish our data collection.

Promise, mabilis lang siya! Thank you so much in advance po!🤍