Syracuse University Top Questions

My classmates are friendly and they are willing to excel in class by forming out of class study groups and give any insights about how to study for the course that can help us earn best grades.

My classmates represent a diverse group of people with different backgrounds and interest.

Helpful, friendly, people I can relate to and share my thoughts and feelings with.

My classmates are motivated toward asking questions, learning answers, and obtaining new knowledge in order to find themselves in their career field of choice one day.

At Syracuse my classmates are very cliquey, rich, and homogeous; many have known each other since high school and are generally Jewish from New Jersey or Long Island and most are in fraternities or sororities; most of my classmates are very smart at the Whitman School of Management, however some are just at the school because their families have the money; if you are not in one of their cliques you generally will be looked down upon by a group; most of my classmates have good business connections in the city as well.

People aren't too religious. People don;t dress up for class, but they don't look like they rolled out of bed either. In a dining hall, you could find one table of japs in sweatpants, the football team, artsy boys, and plain jane girls. Students tend to stay within their own groups except in the dorms when different groups interact more because they're living with these people. There's not your everyday guy and girl on every corner either.

In my classes so far, my classmates have all been from diverse backgrounds and with different goals for the future, though due to the major-specific classes I've taken, many of us have had similar career goals.

I would say that we're pretty diverse. There's a majority - uggs, sweat pants, we're so cool that never got over themselves from high school. But I feel comfortable wearing anything to class, I haven't had any problems finding people who aren't like that, and if you're into that, not a problem. There are a lot of people from Long Island - fact. But there are also people from California so you're never locked into one type.

Since we're all in all of the same classes together, we've grown really close and I love them all.

Classmates vary...there are many international students who come very well focused and determined to succeed and have an American education? In addition you have students from economically disadvantaged families who have been given lots of financial aid because the university sees promise in them and has faith that they will succeed, as well as students from wealthy families...overall students care much about their education here.