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Synopsis
College guides written by students for students.
Syracuse University Students Tell It Like It Is
On the fence about your college decision? College Prowler's student-written guidebook to Syracuse University will make you feel like an insider before you ever set foot on campus! Find out all the things the students think should know before you make your choice of school.
On Weather - "All I can say is get ready for a type of cold you have never before experienced. There is sporadic snowing in May!"
On Safety & Security - "The city of Syracuse displays a strong dissemblance to the campus of Syracuse when discussing safety and security. Although some robberies occur on the outskirts of SU, more serious crimes like shootings, burglaries, and gang activity occur mostly in the inner-city."
On Campus Strictness - "I'm actually an RA, and we do a lot of the enforcing. Personally, I am not too strict. Some RAs are, but in general, the attitude among the RAs that I know is to discourage abusive drinking."
On Drugs - "Getting drugs on campus is as easy as ordering a pizza."
Some of the Best Things About SU :
Midnights on Marshall Street
Kimmel Food Court at 2 a.m. on Saturday night
Nine prestigious undergrad colleges
Some of the Worst Things About SU:
Windy afternoons on Marshall Street
Dining hall food
The very average football team
Find out if Syracuse truly has something for you, straight from the students' mouths.
Visiting campus isn't enough.
Read our Syracuse guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
Discover if Syracuse is Right For You.
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About the Author
Welcome to College Prowler®
During the writing of College Prowler’s guidebooks, we felt it was critical that our content was unbiased and unaffiliated with any college or university. We think it’s important that our readers get honest information and a realistic impression of the student opinions on any campus—that’s why if any aspect of a particular school is terrible, we (unlike a campus brochure) intend to publish it. While we do keep an eye out for the occasional extremist—the cheerleader or the cynic—we take pride in letting the students tell it like it is. We strive to create a book that’s as representative as possible of each particular campus. Our books cover both the good and the bad, and whether the survey responses point to recurring trends or a variation in opinion, these sentiments are directly and proportionally expressed through our guides. College Prowler guidebooks are in the hands of students throughout the entire process of their creation. Because you can’t make student-written guides without the students, we have students at each campus who help write, randomly survey their peers, edit, layout, and perform accuracy checks on every book that we publish. From the very beginning, student writers gather the most up-to-date stats, facts, and inside information on their colleges. They fill each section with student quotes and summarize the findings in editorial reviews. In addition, each school receives a collection of letter grades (A through F) that reflect student opinion and help to represent contentment, prominence, or satisfaction for each of our 20 specific categories. Just as in grade school, the higher the mark the more content, more prominent, or more satisfied the students are with the particular category.
Once a book is written, additional students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team—a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project—are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the book accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the 200-plus schools College Prowler currently covers. Each book is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every school that we cover. It’s no easy accomplishment, but it’s the reason that our guides are such a great resource.
When reading our books and looking at our grades, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each school are not uniform—as a result, it is important to assess schools on a case-by-case basis. Because it’s impossible to summarize an entire school with a single number or description, each book provides a dialogue, not a decision, that’s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!
Review
"This is the kind of information kids really want to know before they pick a college." --Michelle Slatalla, The NY Times, March 9, 2006
"...get viewpoints on a variety of topics from the student body, which is where the Prowler gets its roar." --Melissa Kaplan, Boston Globe, May 23, 2004
"There is information on which schools have packed computer labs, which dorms are studious or riotous, ..." --Ben Gilbert, The Washington Post, April 27, 2004
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- PublisherCollege Prowler
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1427401438
- ISBN 13 9781427401434
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages180
- EditorAdam Burns, Kristin Burns, Kimberly Moore, Jon Skindzier
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