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<p>Well, this is a great problem with the Internet, in my opinion. You can find unfavorable reviews about most anything online with just a little bit of looking.</p>
<p>I can’t get this link to work for me, but I think it hardly matters. This sort of thing is the reason why my wife and I can’t make any decision comfortably any more. No matter what we try to do–help our daughter choose a college, book a vacation, shop for a car, find a contractor to fix our wet basement–we can find somebody writing about his or her horrible experience with whatever we’re investigating. Any business or institution or product that’s been around any length of time will have a mixed record of successes and failures. But anybody with an axe to grind can put a bad review online. Heck, if you post stalk me, you can find me expressing serious doubts about the quality of life at a university or two my daughter was considering. Those are just my opinions–based on some reading and a couple of campus visits. They don’t deserve any more weight than your own opinions, and certainly not more weight than the opinions of those same schools’ enthusiastic boosters, who haunt the message boards shilling for the schools they chose to attend.</p>
<p>As far as I know, Roger Williams is neither extraordinarily good nor extraordinarily bad. If you and your daughter have investigated it, visited it, and come to the conclusion that it might be good for her, then I don’t think you should give too much weight to the online opinions of some disgruntled 19-year-olds with Internet access. And most of the bad reviews of RWU that I’ve seen online (I went and looked at a couple of sites) have a pretty high ratio of carping and name-calling to substance. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if RWU is going to break the family bank, that’s a whole other matter.</p>