I want to clarify something from toward the end of the video - I did use door locks of course and highly recommend them. My footage around talking about issues with noise/roommmates made people think that I should've done that one simple fix. But the issue for me was actually noise from outside my Sim's dorm room and nothing could be done about that. You can tell them to stop but not make it completely halt as they seem to have violins in their inventories. I'm not keen on dorms, but many others will be. Any other play i have with this pack will be either in Britechester dorms (better location, less frustration and bike usage) or from a home lot. I felt a need to try dorms even though I wouldn't likely be a big fan - so it's just not for me. I think the roommates system is fine and a lot of people will love it. Take the Research and Debate skill and you might find new ways to order them around :)

When you care more about your sims’ education than yours

U have to admit the annoying noise,and hard free time is pretty realistic 🤷🏼‍♀️

At least roommates don’t shave and leave their hair in shower like mine did my first semester.

Time to tigermom a toddler until they're college-material. Just like in real life!

My sim literally went from skinny legend to having thighs larger than my ego after just one semester hahaha I can’t

'You took my radio? Time to play the violin!'

A tip of my own: if it’s a ‘holiday’ like Winterfest on the day of your final exam (ie your last class), your Sim won’t go to their class on their own. You HAVE to click go to class or you miss the exam and ruin your GPA! Found this out to my detriment!

my first time playing, i enrolled my sim in 3 core classes, 1 elective, a early morning part time job as a barista, and a member of the ubrite spirit corps..... i thought everything was going to be fine.......

Another tip regarding going to class. If you live off campus, they’ll disappear right at class time and just go to the class rabbithole like they would for a job. It eliminates the need to try to walk to the classroom in time. I honestly wish it worked that way if you live on campus too because I was constantly late for class when I lived on campus just because of how long it took to walk from the dorm. 😂 Once I moved off-campus and let the game pull me automatically into a class rabbithole, I was never late again!

Imagine only having ONE of: a term paper, a final project, a final presentation. I'm in my fourth year of university (5 courses), and this semester I have: - 3 final exams - 5 final projects - 3 final presentations

Your dorm mates bring home cooked meals to the dorm as well so you can find regular meals to eat for free, and not have to live off of microwave meals, especially if you don’t have the money.

I’d like to thank you for the subtitles, I don’t have great hearing, and being able to read what you’re saying is very helpful.

I really like this format; I wish we'd had that for every pack.

My roommates at foxbury were so passive aggressive. My actual roommate had a bladder problem and went everywhere and people were so passive aggressively mad about it. They left notes by her bed and I would lock her out. She eventually moved out mid semester. Sims university is so savage

The site pages look super useful, but that's to be expected from you, eh? ;) You're a gift to this playerbase as always

Having just finished my first run through University I would strongly encourage maxing R&D before starting. You get through the work much faster. I also created a “Dorm Clean Crew” club and invited all my dorm mates. While it didn’t eliminate all of the nasty stuff, it did keep it down to more bearable levels. Also if you use rewards points from aspirations to get “never weary” and “forever full” rewards and that saves a ton of time.

Thank you for these tips!! I got straight As in college IRL... but flunked out of Sims University because none of this is explained up front! So I was just confused why I wasn’t doing well in any of my classes the whole time lol 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

10:30 My roommate somehow kept having chicken delivered so I just kept eating my roommates chicken 😂 it was nutritious and saved me time as it was ready to eat

I would just like to say please continue to do your reviews. You give valuable information and since I've begun following your channel I've found that I'm more confident in my Sims4 purchases in regards to my gameplay. Keep up the good work. I look forward to your future reviews.

This reminded me soo much of my college days that I ended up stressed. So I signed my Sim for 3 lessons and one elective, at same time he was working for gigs in the acting career since that's what he is pursuing plus trying to be famous through public appearances, social media management and forging friendships with celebrities. Each course has daily homework, +project presentation + thesis paper +final exam. There's also extra lessons if you wanna take them and once you wrote the paper you wanna re do it to get better quality. Same for the presentation + practice it. It's very difficult to manage everything imagine each homework takes like 2-3 hours.

I need a mod to change the prices of University. To be honest, the prices of everything in the game needs changing.

i have a sim that got into uni, started dating don lothario, he convinced her to move out of the dorms and quit uni all together, then had a toxic relationship, broke up, then started uni again, started dating her bff’s cousin, continued uni, got pregnant, gave birth, got married, and only had one term left of uni just so she can become a lawyer. she’s in language and literature distinguished degree in britechester, living out of campus yes, I am losing my mind

I want a gradeschool and highschool setting.

I totally got 3 As and 1 F on the first semester. Getting to class is difficult. The need to improve that. Also not knowing how you are doing is difficult. These classes are like real college and don't forgive mistakes lol.

I agree with you that they should’ve had a metric on the careers tab to show how you’re doing in class, like they do for high school and for careers. It was quite a shock when I nearly flunked out my first term; not even realizing I was doing poorly until the final grades came in!

honestly im shocked that they even had some features that bleed over into other packs like the roommate system, because the sims 4 hardily ever crosses over systems like that.

So we can be sure there will be a "No More Instruments In Dorms"-Mod by next week ;)

Carl!!!!! I never thought you had a UKposts Channel?! Ever since I found out your Website, I ALWAYS get back there whenever I get stuck (especially when my sim decided to be a Physician lol!) Keep being you, legend!

my hot take about graduation being a rabbit hole: my irl graduation was SUPER boring, really long, and stressful. it wouldn't make for fun gameplay, so i'm happy they left it out. the more important and fun part is what you do AFTER the graduation ceremony; often people will have little parties or go for dinner or something! and that's totally possible here! (: similar hot take with classes being rabbit holes, classes are boring and if i could ever skip a class, i did. most of the time you're just copying down a ton of info without actually learning any of it (obviously, this isn't ALWAYS the case -- some classes are more discussion based or hands-on, but the majority of my classes were your boring everyday lecture). the learning comes when you're at home studying and working on projects, and talking to your roomies or friends about your classes. never thought i'd be actively defending rabbit holes in the Sims 4, but here we are!

Every sim in my game bring cooked gourmet meals to the dorm so there's always food around to eat lol. I just shove it in the fridge and it keeps longer which is good.

Thank you! I preordered the game, so I've been playing a family with top-notched toddler, and did all four child aspirations. Waited to age to teen until after the game goes live. Love this format too.

I agree with everything you've said! I've downloaded new lots for the entire new britechester world. Another tip, when you're sims are either studying, writing essays, etc. make them listen to music at the same time so their joy doesn't drop to the floor!

Thank you for your college scheduler! I had no idea what skills my Sims needed to be a Lawyer or what selection I was needed to look for...my handy second screen with Carl's Sim Guides helped me again. Hugs. Can't say how much I appreciate your hard work.

I enjoy how bad the way classes are displayed is. Sims 4 has been pretty easy to get through and this adds so much challenge in a hellish way. Took two classes and one elective, accidentally took on the Athletic scholarship, not realizing that would mean joining the soccer team. My Sim barely has time for ANYTHING. It's a micromanagement hell and I love it.

Great content as always, Carl. Thanks for helping my first experience with Discover University a lot smoother!

Your guides help so much when I get stuck. To make my life easier I always ALWAYS have my sims kids max their toddlers skills, complete all the child aspirations and do the scouts activity. It allows them to start their life being able to gain all skills so much quicker. It’s so much easier

In preparing the Sim, it is good to spend 1 week finishing as many aspiration points as possible, and get the Observer trait (good to see all your roommate’s traits at once) plus Steel Bladder trait. Steel Bladder will save yourself Uni Life. It is pretty easy... I usually skip around the different aspirations to get points quickly.

The violin playing in the dorms drove me insane

Thanks for the great review as always, Carl 🤩 I can’t wait to play

I can imagine now bella being a wizard while on university...

Thank you for the guide, I have shared this video on my Facebook fan page. I really appreciate the work you put into your guides.

I played it legit and I’m just now finishing university degree, man this pack definitely adds that depth element that you were looking for I hope 🤞

I wonder if the Peace and Quiet lot trait from Jungle Adventure would help with the dorm problem...?

Excited to play tomorrow, thank you for the review. :)

Great vid! I’m soaking in all the subtle shade you’re throwing 😄

Thank you for your videos, Carl. You definitely give important tips for gameplay ♥ Looking forward for the next videos about Discover U!

Did NOT know you could drag the class schedule thing up - helps so much!!

Out of all these years your channel is the only one I come to for sims 👌You're the only one that speaks the truth

I freaking LOVE your guides!!! Thank you so much!

Whenever I enroll my sims and let them live in dorms, I make sure they're either a spell caster or vampire. Preferably a vampire since the "vampiric run" is super helpful in getting to classes or doing anything at all. Whenever I command my sims to study, homework, or read a book to learn skills, I notice as a normal being they take 20 mins (in game) getting out the object and then roaming around getting a chair to sit and read or study when there's literally a chair in their room or bed to sit, and they repeat their seek-and-study thing for anytime they study or do homework. So being a vampire with vampiric run really helps them getting around and speeding up their animations. Of course spell casters can teleport to class but they still struggle to move around the dorm finding a seat to study or read their book. And also I find that a vampire sim can max 2 to 3 skills in a night just by having the scout trait from collecting scout badges as a teenager, having the night owl, speed reader, and servant in rewards trait, in addition with the university study spot and peace and quite place lot traits, vampire sims can max their skills super fast within a night if they too have their upgraded "master of darkness" passive ability in their vampire skill tree. And not to mention their OP ability "compel for deep drink" ability in which I use for those annoying violinists in my dorms, just click vampire-> compel for deep drink on any violinist and they all pass out after a good sucking time (I might have ruined their GPA by making them sleeping past their classes, but who cares I didn't enroll in for my distinguished honor just to hear them faking tourrettes with their violins everyday)

Nice! High quality as usual.

This is a really good review, thank you! I liked the sarcasm too. In the future I'd find it even better if you scaled up your UI a bit, I like to pause to read the game text but I couldn't for this video because it was so small on my laptop screen. I look forward to more videos on this when you've had more time with the pack. A secret society video would be cool :)

Thank you for making this! 🌸💕 You’re the best 🌸 Bless you

I am so relieved to have a basically super vampire that never worries about needs for university, everything was already available to my eyes and I found it quite easy, especially flying as a bat in Foxbury saved me a lot of time, I chose the more expensive campus housing and it didn't auto give me a roommate, I was rarely there though as the homework does take awhile

Very helpful review. I’ll be buying it soon & you had some great advice & tips I will be using for sure! Thanks! 😃

thank you!! i just finally got this and im so excited to start the application process.

So glad you got early access!

Carl , you do a great service for Sim's players. You help so much.

Great video as always! You’re my goto for anything Sims! Keep up the great work!

I’m so happy that I have found your videos!! I always google my sims issues and I always go to your page!!

Thanks for the info! I will pick up the pack but will wait for a sale. Looks like there are a lot of things to explore which is great. I wonder if the new careers have "special rooms" you can build in your house once you max the career. I'm glad there is a scholarship for scouting, another reason to have your kids to do scouts.Lots of great possibilities for legacy players.

Amazing review as usual. Thanks for your content.

Thank you for this video it was very helpful bc I just stared playing sims 4/discover university

Literally the most helpful sims video ever🤣‼️ thanks!

Thanks Carl. As always, very helpful.

This was a great insight to the pack, can’t wait to get my hands on it! 🥳

Thanks for the review. It was informative.

Thanks dude! Helpful as always.

I'm excited for this pack. One of the things I did most with Sims3 was to send my sims to college.

Great overview. The tips look really useful. I’ll be playing the pack this weekend so they will definitely come in handy.

As someone who liked dorms...The 'auto family addition' pisses me right the hell off. Didn't they do something like that in Sims 3? Live in a dorm, suddenly have control over EVERYBODY in the dorm building? Makes me long for the systems from Sims 2. That said I did really enjoy Sims 3 not having a lot of rabbit holes on campus. You actually went to classes and such. That was awesome.

My uni campus was very similar to Foxbury - it was built on the top/side of mountains so my legs got an epic workout walking from building to building. My roommate actually drove her car from one side of campus to the other.

I just stared playing Sims 4 and bought University and this is so helpful!!!!

Your UI is so tiny that I couldn't read what all the pop-ups said, lol.

I love ur guides. Ur dont just complain and complain. U share ur veiw point, not yelling at other people. People have been wanting this for years complaing because they dont have it. But when they get it they STILL complain

And I was really surprised that the pro-tip from a SimGuru to start your term in mid-week (e.g. Wed or Thur) in their 2 hour review video is not working out as well as starting on a Friday night. I am testing play for different start days. And I am on my third Sim right now. So far, Friday night is the best time. It gives you time to see your dorm, get a bed, buy supplies and apparel, fill up your form, say Hi to everyone, and spend the mornings of Saturday and Sunday finishing all homework, start writing Term Paper and Presentations, and go to all of the weekend Sports, Spirit Week, to set up your Sport/Organisation. And in the following term, you feel happy on the Friday, shift out of one form if you like, and start doing homework again on weekends. Plus, using the “free” weekends to go home to family is SO important! Entering on Monday and starting on Tuesday is the worse ever. Entering on Tuesday and staring on Wednesday is so-so.

The sarcasm is strong with Carl... LOL, I live for it with your videos. I agree, having Geoffrey Landgraab show up in the magic realm, or the mermaids going to college with you (and that weird flipper animation/sound they do, ugh) is not a great point for immersion and that's why typically I just delete all the pre-made sims unless I'm playing one of the default worlds without going to magic realm or Sulani. Sometimes I like to play with them but most of the time I'm happier to have randomly generated or sims I have downloaded from the gallery (with MCCC mod to help generate saved bin sims as townies). This makes the variety of sims a little better and will probably be mandatory for me with University since I expect my sims to be meeting new people from all over the world there, not the same townies over and over. Thanks for the tips about Foxbury being a bad layout with the dorms, I will probably have my sim live off campus to focus on the robotics. I have to have the robots! Great video as always!

Here is a tip. Enroll Vampires and Servos into four classes spellcasters can work with the fill all needs potion. They can handle this for the most part. Though the servo is the most difficult due to increadibly long recharge and self repair times. If you have a sim who can tend your servo up it takes way less time.

Great video and thanks for the tips!

My husband found it on sale for Ps4 so he shagged it for me (and movie stuff). I am so excited to play! He is getting the chance to play his new game first so in the mean time I will Watch Carl's guide on it of course. Thanks Carl!

I honestly waited for this expansion pack for years. I'm so happy with it, but I wouldn't live on the campus. I like that you can accomplish the degrees from home. So now I have my degree, run a vet practice, and simultaneously have a full-time career that started off with WAY more money because of the degree. Love it.

I noticed that not all careers are linked to degrees. Mixologist doesn’t have one. I wonder if there are others.

I think you have a great voice for story telling.

There’s also dining halls at the Draper Den and grills outside in Britechester so you can make food and put it in your mini fridge from your inventory

Great vid! I’m so pumped up for this expansion. Bicycles was number 1 on my wishlist for the Sims, so your tip about housing placement was surprisingly prescient. Lol I hope you give us a video on the new professions next. Will you be doing any coverage for the community chosen pack?

I love the sim in the thumbnail!!

That’s life for you in real life even though I don’t have the game , I think they could’ve done much more on the map and make more room because it’s a university but clearly they want to make it small which is a little upsetting but thanks for being awesome 👏🏼

The roommates are so messy! I always have to hire a maid! It’s like I’m their mother, always cleaning up after them 🤦🏾‍♀️ Someone play Jennifer Lopez

The being in the dark part is definitely my problem with this, especially I don't know what the "Study" action really does, it doesn't build any skills and my sim studies for so long and he was still told that wasn't good enough by the professor :(

good tip for unmatching music from speed, didnt know you could do that. thanks

I was about to cry ut when I placed on ground MY pingpong table and soccerball. I was so craving for more sports stuff for this gameplay

I took 3 classes in one term plus an elective, my sim literally go to school without sleep, seems legit as an univ student like me haha

the first time i played the university pack and got accepted, and get to choose the subjects or courses ur gonna take.. i was so happy atm das why i chose the 4subjects or majors smthn like that.. n now that i get to really play it, i am bombarded with her hws lol i cannot, to my future sims, we'll make our lives easier nxt time

I bulldozed a lot in the center village and built a Tiny Home designed for students and have all of my students move there when in school. This is fairly realistic as many college towns have small homes that are nearly always rented by students. I constantly have to kick out Townie squatters every time I want to use it though

You don't have to be focused in class to get a 4.0 GPA. Just finish your homework and take notes in class and you'll be fine. My sim is rarely focused. It seems to just help build skills faster. I even flubbed a class one week where I forgot to finish the homework one day and forgot to tell her to take notes once she got there, and she still got an A+ at the end of the week.

Thank you so much for this!!

this is super helpful. hopefully I won't be too much of a disaster when I play DU for the first time tmrw..

The moving in the dorm part I’m sure is fixed because I play now and I move in by myself and only my sim is the only one that shows up, no more extra sims in your household, I’ve noticed to that it’s a lot easier now then it was before to do anything, and I’ve learned how to use my time and get my school work done.

What I’m doing is having only one class per term so that it won’t be to harsh for me. My Sim actually is F in all of its subjects so I took only one and it got an A+. 🤙