Thoughts on Syracuse?

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Anonymous wrote:We did like the smaller size of it - as compared to say a Penn State. PSU at University Park has something like 10k students per year, so 40k undergrads total. Syracuse has 15k total - about 3700 per class year. The business school is even smaller - about 2000 students total or 500 per class year.

I know not everyone cares about that but there's def some appeal to NOT being treated as a number as has become common at some of the state schools.

While there is an appeal of kids being around other kids who can pay 80k/yr, keep in mind this isn't a highly selective school - something like a 50% acceptance rate. Though I guess better than JMU which is like a 75% acceptance rate. So yeah rich northeastern kids but not necessarily the highest caliber kids - though if it's about networking, caliber doesn't matter really.

Depends on the major. Newhouse (journalism and communications) is highly selective, as are some other programs..

Yes journalism is the exception but the regular liberal arts majors don’t strike me as super selective. The undergrad business school has about a 30% acceptance rate and architecture is about 25% as that tends to be more selective everywhere; I assume engineering’s stats are somewhere near architecture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMiami of the north. Fun mid-sized private school for reasonably bright kids with money who like to have a good time.

Winner winner chicken dinner. Spot on. It’s simply not where serious students with ambition choose to attend. Period.

Mommy had a nice stay at home job while Daddy has a big law job or some other business waiting for junior to get home from Syracuse.

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While Syracuse does just ok in the US News rankings, that’s not the whole story. It was ranked #4 in the annual Coppertone Best Schools to Avoid Skin Cancer list. Only U of Washington, U of Alaska-Fairbanks, and Northern Michigan University were ahead of it. Go ‘Cuse!! Woot woot!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UMiami of the north. Fun mid-sized private school for reasonably bright kids with money who like to have a good time.

Winner winner chicken dinner. Spot on. It’s simply not where serious students with ambition choose to attend. Period.

Mommy had a nice stay at home job while Daddy has a big law job or some other business waiting for junior to get home from Syracuse.

Gosh you are stupid. Sorry your kid was rejected by Newhouse.

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Ridiculously expensive for what it is. Anyone who would pay full freight for it has too much money and not enough sense. That's what I think of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UMiami of the north. Fun mid-sized private school for reasonably bright kids with money who like to have a good time.

Winner winner chicken dinner. Spot on. It’s simply not where serious students with ambition choose to attend. Period.

Mommy had a nice stay at home job while Daddy has a big law job or some other business waiting for junior to get home from Syracuse.

Obnoxious and inaccurate

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Anonymous wrote:Syracuse checks A LOT of boxes for my kid, but the weather is a definite concern.

Buy a good winter coat and he/she will be fine.

How about AFTER September?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UMiami of the north. Fun mid-sized private school for reasonably bright kids with money who like to have a good time.

Winner winner chicken dinner. Spot on. It’s simply not where serious students with ambition choose to attend. Period.

Mommy had a nice stay at home job while Daddy has a big law job or some other business waiting for junior to get home from Syracuse.

Beyond ridiculous. My kid is a serious student and really likes UMiami. If they didn't hate winter, I'm sure they'd be looking at Syracuse, as well. The large, state schools offer a great experience. However, we've also seen that mid-sized private schools have great resources to help their student succeed. SLACs are smaller than their HS and flagships are enormous. UMiami and Syracuse are a happy medium.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU is locally known and its star is rising. Syracuse is a nationally known institution

lol nationally known for sports and sh!tty weather.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU is locally known and its star is rising. Syracuse is a nationally known institution

lol nationally known for sports and sh!tty weather.

Nationally known for Newhouse School of Communications. Many famous alumnae.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine why you want to pay $85,214 a year to send your kid to Syracuse for business. If you're in Virginia send him to JMU.

I don’t know how to sugar coat this or say it nicely, so I’ll just say that some people prefer to pay $85k so that they’re around other people paying $85k. They’d never even consider JMU

That’s pretty weird since the average household income of JMU students is higher than Syracuse.

I looked this up to fact check it, and it’s true. But the other metrics are not even close (US News ranking, acceptance rate). So JMU is for rich dumb kids? I really have no idea. Is that the reputation? I didn’t think it was a rich kid school, or necessarily a dumb kid school.
We did tour Syracuse and loved it, fwiw. If you can take the cold!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Syracuse checks A LOT of boxes for my kid, but the weather is a definite concern.

Buy a good winter coat and he/she will be fine.

How about AFTER September?

I think whether a person will enjoy it there is an individual preference thing. The fall up there is actually amazing. Better than here. I went to graduate school up there and loved going apple picking. The area around the city is quite beautiful if you like rolling hills. It is not far to the Adirondacks. It is also not far to go west to the Finger Lakes region. There are many beautiful places to go if you like hiking and the outdoors.

But you do have to be prepared for long winters and lots of snow. I did not mind those things and found the area quite beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculously expensive for what it is. Anyone who would pay full freight for it has too much money and not enough sense. That's what I think of it.

Why does everyone always bring up how expensive Syracuse is? It's literally the same price as every other private college and University in the US.

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DC accepted there. Received a 10k “gift.” We still can’t afford and I’m not taking loans out and ROI is negligible. DC is JMU bound. In state.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculously expensive for what it is. Anyone who would pay full freight for it has too much money and not enough sense. That's what I think of it.

Why does everyone always bring up how expensive Syracuse is? It's literally the same price as every other private college and University in the US.

People are bringing it up because the OP specifically asked is Syracuse "worth it compared to what you can get in this area" (MD/VA) for business majors and the answer is clearly no.