<p>Has anybody seen this website, studentsreview.com? I wish I would have known about it before. My son's university, which I personally think is a joke, rates so poorly I never would have sent him there had I seen the input from alumni. Everything they say on that site is true. Just wondering if anybody else has looked at it.</p>
<p>I have read this website numerous times. The reviews by nature are going to be negative. No one who thinks positively usually is going to write a review. Take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Studentsreview is not perfect but I like it. If you are similiar to the reviewer it can be a help.</p>
<p>I'm with joev on this one. Seems to attract the malcontents. Not saying it's worthless, but should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Although the reviews can make for interesting reading. My favorite: "If anybody tells you that you should go here, punch them in the face. If you're a parent and your child says they want to go here, punch them in the face." Geez, don't be so polite and tell us how you really feel. :)</p>
<p>What's realy interesting is if you read the reviews of Bob Jones and the related evangelical colleges.</p>
<p>Is that the site that says you shouldn't go to MIT because the parties are boring and the girls are ugly? Or that you shouldn't go to Univ of Mich because it's so cold that the girls stay inside all winter and look like poler bears in the spring?</p>
<p>It seems to be worth looking at, although perhaps taking with a grain of salt. I think it's important to look at the number of respondants -- the more the better. If it's only 10-15 students making comments, it can skew easily one way or the other. But if particular negative or positive comments keep coming up, it's something to take note of.</p>
<p>The opinions can be suspect when postive too. I had recently posted on cc that Roger Williams recently had quite a few positive posts (I think more than most schools do in finite period). I am not saying that they are not genuine. It seems that perhaps a bunch of students decided to post positive comments to boost the reputation of their school. It seemed to me that the posts were not balanced enough (pros and cons).</p>
<p>perhaps it is because my daughters school is so small that I recognize students who have posted and because I have looked up schools that I am familar with and the general info seems to tabulate with my impressions, that I think it is a good resource- certainly you wouldn't want to limit yourself to similar resources but taken in combination with all that is out there- I think it provides a pragmatic look at some schools that concur with not first impressions but from students who have been able to look below the surface.</p>
<p>I think it's funny and interesting, and really should be taken with a ginormo grain of salt. I'm afraid that it turns off students from schools who would love it there...it started having this effect on me, so I had to take a step back from it for a while :)</p>
<p>I believe that a signficant number of the reviews on that site are written by high school students. I say that because the reviews tend to highlight guidebook "stereotypes" in a way that would not be common for current students.</p>
<p>For example, the school I am most interested in has nearly a quarter of the reviews written by "female students with 1310 SATS" all of whom, coincidentally, give it a D grade for academic quality. There only a handful of students with 1310 SATs at the school to begin with and, of all the negatives you could point to about the school, academic quality would not be one of them. It would be like writing a review of USC that gives low marks to its football program or reviewing Julliard and saying that the music program is its weak suit. So I am highly suspicious of those "reviews". I am also highly suspicious of a review that complains the school is just for "New York Jews".</p>
<p>A better way to get reliable information, often covering a range of perspectives, is to post intelligent questions on a school's LiveJournal site. Or better yet, do an overnight visit and ask questions hanging around the dorm at night.</p>
<p>How do you find a school's Live Journal site? I've found the blogs of students who have associated their blogs with particular school, but that seems rather hit or (mostly) miss as far as finding info.</p>
<p>Oh, now I figured it out --just click the community button!</p>