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Syracuse University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityC+ Faculty AccessibilityB
Useful SchoolworkD+ Excess CompetitionB
Academic SuccessD+ Creativity/ InnovationC+
Individual ValueB+ University Resource UseC-
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyC FriendlinessA-
Campus MaintenanceC+ Social LifeD-
Surrounding CityF Extra CurricularsB-
SafetyB
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Closeminded

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

Female
SAT1380
Bright
Lowest Rating
Surrounding City
F
Highest Rating
Friendliness
A-
She cares more about Social Life than the average student.
Date: Jun 25 2005
Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time)
The social life here leaves muuuuch to be desired. If you're not into the Greek system, this is NOT the school for you. Almost everyone I meet is part of a sorority or a fraternity, both social and service. People say there's a difference between the two but they're all still exclusive and create loyalties to only those in the organization - not in one? You might be treated like a second-string friend by someone that is. To compensate, all the people here who don't go Greek are forced to join something else. These clubs are also kind of exclusive, or at least in my experience. My advice if you decide to come to SU is to definitely join a club or two pretty soon; don't wait. It will be veeery difficult to make friends otherwise.

As far as diversity goes, I'd say we're about as diverse as any northeastern rural school gets, but it's really really segregated. I see very little mixing going on between races, and I heard somewhere we were 8th to last on a list of schools for how much races mix. It sickens me. I don't come from the biggest town and the kids in my high school mixed more. It's to a point where it makes me uncomfortable.

People here have a lot of money, and they (mostly the girls) make sure you know it. Uggs are literally on every pair of feet, even when it's 75 degrees outside. These people have never held a summer job, never wanted anything their daddy couldn't pay for, and don't understand when this isn't the case for someone else. Maybe I'm just not used to being surrounded by people with money because I went to a public high school, but it just bothers me sometimes.

Aaaand there's the weather. Gray most of the time. Snow on the ground for the last few weeks of fall semester, right up until about April and a horrible windchill that made it feel like 20 below. I needed long underwear to get to class. I did get used to it though, and though it's the main reason I considered not coming here, it bothered me a lot less later on. You just get used to it; if you're having a good time otherwise it's not really an issue.

Sports are huge here, but a lot of fun. I had zero interest in sports before coming and I ended up at all but 2 basketball games. Definitely one positive aspect to the school, but if you're not into sports you won't have much else to do during game time.

Academics I typically had no problem with. It's like at any other school; if you want help you're going to have to take the initiative to speak to the professor. Most of them were pretty helpful, or at least tried to be, and they all made themselves really available. I had some good TA's too, don't knock them- they might help you with recommendations in the future. Watch where they place you freshman year, if you think a class they put you in is too easy/too hard tell your advisor.

Oh, and one more tip. If you decide to come, do NOT join the honors program, and if you do, get out early before they make you write a thesis on something entirely unrelated to your major. Their advisors are TERRIBLE and they're all freaks who sit around and eat popcorn to forget about the fact that they went nowhere in life and now advise undeclared students. You'll never know the class requirements because they don't either.

Wow, that was a lot more long-winded than I intended. Bottom line, I made a couple of good friends my first year, but if I could do it over I would and I'm still considering a transfer during my sophomore year. As negative as that all sounded I hope it helped, at least with the social life aspect.

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