Help! Should I really go to Syracuse (Newhouse school)?!

Deuga7
Sat, 24 May 2014 06:00:21 +0000

My son will be a freshman at Syracuse in the fall. He was accepted to the Newhouse School - Whitman School of Management dual program. We toured SU for the first time just a couple weeks ago after the May 1st deadline for first year students. For first year students, Newhouse received 5,000 applicants, they accepted only 800 of them. Out of the 800, 397 accepted. Hence, if you’ve been accepted to Newhouse, I wish you a hearty congratulations!

Newhouse is three buildings combined into one. It’s a rather impressive and huge compound. Like many of the colleges and the main library, it’s got a cafeteria built-in. If you end up taking Marketing courses at the Whitman Management School, it’s equally impressive in a very different way and is two blocks from Newhouse.

1) Weather - yes, it’s going to snow over 100 inches during a typical winter. It’ll get down below 25 degrees. You can walk from any building to any other building on campus in 10 minutes or less. It’s not a sprawled out campus. If you decide to go anyway despite your lack of tolerance of cloudy weather, Philips makes a special light called the goLite. It’s supposed to help overcome problems like you’re describing. If you were to go visit the place now you’d find it deceptively gorgeous.

2) Only around 25% of the campus is greek, though it does have a reputation as a party school. SU has a well developed system of learning communities. Students with common interests can live together, share common interests and common classes.

3) Check out the Adverting School website. They claim to be top 5 in the US according to one study.

4) It seems you haven’t presently got USD as an option (though it sounds like you expect to get in). You can always bide your time until your transfer commitment deadline to decide.

Best of luck.