Student College Review Websites

SnowflakeVT
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:49:30 +0000

Yes, charliesch, I agree that some sites let students post too anonymously, so a student with a grudge can over represent their view. I’ve seen that with my D’s current college when she was first looking at going there. My hunch proved true when I also found a YouTube video of a random student posting one of their performances from this college; on the video the same user (an ex-student of the college) was commenting multiple times on the video using the same negative phrases about the overall college that had been on that other site. Once I subtracted those comments out of the review, I could get a more honest perspective of the strengths and weaknesses of that college. My D is a junior there now, so in the end the reviews did help her see a realistic pro and con view of the college, and she accepted the negative possibilities as part of the experience.