<p>I clicked onto that other website. It is one of the websites where students review the school they attend. I clicked on recent reviews and then clicked onto Roger Williams. All of a sudden this school has many positive reviews and perhaps an unusual number of posts. Most of these positive reviews were posted within the last week. It makes me wonder about such reviews and their accuracy. Otoh, should they be genuine positive comments, I am impressed.</p>
<p>My son goes to Brown, and one night we stayed at a hotel and met a family whose son went to Roger Williams. This was a bright boy, but in need of more support. The family was very enthusiastic about this school and reported a great experience for this child.</p>
<p>I am not commenting about this school. I just find it curious that yesterday the site where there are peer reviews of schools, suddenly there were 19 positive comments about Roger Williams. Past reviews of that school were more balanced.</p>
<p>Northeastmom, this is why you need to take these peer reviews lightly. There could be some games being played by the college administration. The reason could be, which has happened at other schools, that the school makes an announcement to their existing students about the peer review site asking for reviews.</p>
<p>Take these with a huge grain of salt. Although at least one site I visit does make some effort to week out suspicious postings.</p>
<p>Edit -- looks like the site I had in mind is the same one you are talking about. Does look pretty odd. Might simply be a case of a teacher or administrator "beating the bushes" telling students to visit the site and say good things.</p>