<p>I don't know much about Syracuse except for it's private, it's great at basketball, and I get in pretty easily. Being a private school with reputation for being good at sports, I was wondering what northerners, especially New Yorkers, think of the college since there aren't many colleges like it in that area of the country. I could see it being the pride of New York intercollegiate sports or just another TCU with a better name. I have personally don't know very much about it.</p>
<p>All I know is that it’s Georgetown’s rival and that nobody I know goes there.</p>
<p>I’m a New Yorker! and i applied to Syracuse’s engineering program and got accepted but not going there since I had better options. Syracuse is a big time party school. There is a college around that area like Le Moyne College and this community college. Syracuse university practically takes up a big portion of that city. Their social atmosphere is very lively and active. They are pretty big in sports and school spirit. I did heard that there is a portion of students that are spoiled/ from rich families. They do have great programs and they are best known for the Newhouse school.</p>
<p>It’s big in sports but the general feeling in NY is that the school is not difficult to get into and it certainly is not worth 50,000+ per year. Last year kids from our HS were getting in with a 3.0 and 22 ACT. I was told that the communications school is excellent. This is just my opinion and the opinion of parents in NY that I speak to.</p>
<p>I graduated from LeMoyne College and my understanding was that local employers preferred LeMoyne grads over SU grads.</p>
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<p>I went there in the late 80s. Try to make it back to visit and go the NYS Fair every few years. Admission % usually hovers around 45-50% so I guess you’d call that “average” selectivity? Definately best knows for it’s business/management programs and Newhouse. Big on “rah rah”…school spirit is huge. I think it has a decent reputation for academics but you definately don’t have to be a straight-A student to be admitted. It’s a totally college town, the surrounding “city” is pretty depressed and industrial. Snows alot. Not the best choice for someone who suffers from seasonal affect disorder. 
I loved my years there, but if I could wind back the clock I’d have gone to a smaller school. Just my …02.</p>
<p>I know someone who was an undergrad bio major, graduated in 2002, earned a PhD, and is now a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute with publications in prestigious journals. Another person I know was a history major who now has a Masters in statistics. There are some very bright students at Syracuse who succeed after graduation. Syracuse city has the best Irish pub outside of Ireland! Colemans…where the traffic lights have green on top…seriously.</p>
<p>Syracuse is New York State’s flagship public university…except its private.</p>
<p>Great school!!</p>
<p>Its the University of Miami of Northeast. Private but big on sports. There aren’t many colleges like that. Its comparable to Rutgers and SUNY Buffalo.</p>
<p>Looking at the USNWR list – #56 Northeastern, Ohio State; #58 Fordham, SMU, Syracuse, Maryland, Pitt, #63 U Conn, Georgia, # 65 Purdue, Texas A&M, WPI.</p>
<p>Ummmm … actually this looks about right – these schools generally are peers to Syracuse and have similar reputations.</p>
<p>When looking for colleges for my current high school senior, I will admit that Syracuse wasn’t at all on our radar. One gorgeous day last fall,we were driving past it after a very disappointing visit to a nearby “prestigious” school. My daughter had finished sulking (we had argued about her reasons for not liking the other school) and was sleeping. I woke her up to ask if she wanted to do a drive by. Of course she argued (she, in her mind, was far too good for Syracuse).</p>
<p>Here we are, seven months later, and guess where she has committed. Syracuse. She was accepted at all other schools she applied to but once she had set foot on that campus, there was just no other school. </p>
<p>Syracuse was her “safety” school. Once it was time to make her decision, she struggled a little with the “prestige” issue, but after visiting for the third time, she was convinced it was for her. Our four day “Accepted Students” Odyssey where we visited three schools in two states was very telling. The differences between the schools she was considering and Syracuse was striking. She will be in the Honors Program at Syracuse and will receive extra advising which I’m happy about. </p>
<pre><code> Those of you who talk about its lack of selectivity (and I would have been the first to agree with you a year ago), I say give it a chance. My daughter is 5th in her class of 400+ and had SAT scores of almost 2200. Another student from our high school who will be attending has similar stats.
As New Yorkers from suburban NYC, again, we weren’t even considering Syracuse. I honestly don’t know why! We did our due diligence and then some - at several schools. I’m convinced that Syracuse will give my daughter every opportunity to learn and succeed. She may just have some fun while doing so!
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<p>She also looks good in orange which I don’t think is easy to do. : )</p>
<p>She will have an amazing 4 years! Do you know if she’ll be dorming at Brewster/Boland yet?</p>
<p>Hi keepingitlight - She has not heard. Dorms are one thing we paid very little attention to. After touring a gazillion colleges with three kids, we realized dorms are all pretty similar.</p>
<p>Many people from my high school (about 20-30) go to Syracuse each year and so it is thought of as an ordinary school. It’s known as a hardcore party school, but it also has pretty good academics. However, don’t go to Syracuse if you hate the snow–it snows like crazy there!</p>