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If any college students read this, would you say that the student reviews of your college/university are pretty straight on or do the reviewers exaggerate?

Websites like college powler and students review are kind of scaring me now with their negativity….

I will usually look at ratemyprofessor, just to see what people thought about the person. After doing it for quite a few semesters, they can have accurate and inaccurate posts. Some of the posts can be subjective, for instance:
"Teacher x is almost impossible, I struggled to pass!"

Sometimes I would see people say something like that, but then do absolutely fine in the course. You kinda need to ask yourself, "what kind of people go to my school"?.

Overall, I will read the posts for a general idea… but I don’t take them very seriously.

I did a Google search on Binghamton and I read some student reviews online. Most of them were really negative and it’s disheartening. I was so positive that this was my first choice school and now I’m second guessing.

Some of the comments that kept showing up definitely applied to me. Should I really trust what people are saying?

If you go to Bing. or have been there, what did you think?

Thanks for your help (:
Most of the comments were about the lack of a football team-which I don’t really care about, the "ugly" campus-which I thought was pretty, how Greek life dominates campus (this doesn’t make sense to me, only 20% of students are in frats/sororities), and how it’s a huge party school. The "party school" comment is bugging me since I don’t party and I don’t plan on it.

The majority of the time, no.
If you can find a trustworthy website, then maybe.

From what I’ve noticed, many of the students who write the reviews have never actually been/visited/studied at the school and are basing their assumptions on rumors they’ve heard. I actually understand how you feel – my school previously had a huge strike which somehow tarnished it’s reputation a little, this brought about insults and rumors of it being a "crappy school" with a "poor educational system" even if the strike had nothing to with the academics, but the prestige only. If one is looking for a prestigious school, then I would never suggest mine. However, if one was asking for a decent education, I would highly suggest mine. My professors are amazing and we’re learning the same things a student in a more prestigious school is learning.

My advice, ignore them. ESPECIALLY if the review is something like, "the professors are crap! They mark so hard!" or "The parties here suck!" Do some research yourself. Visit a lecture you’d be taking if there, if you want. If you liked the school, so be it. The students who wrote the negative reviews obviously had bad experiences there themselves and are biased. Who said you’ll have a bad experience as well? Anywho, I’m not quite positive about SUNY Binghamton, so I can’t tell you about that school specifically.

Hope this helps though!
Good luck.

Edit: Haha, yeah. In that case, don’t bother taking any of those comments into consideration. A football team, an ugly campus, and parties don’t have anything to do with the quality of education, which is the most important factor. Btw, the people who mentioned the "greek life" are probably involved with the "greek life" themselves lol, again, which is why they said that – because it dominates THEIR lives. Also, honestly, almost every university is a "party school." However, you shouldn’t be worried since it’ll only be a "party school" for you if you actually bother to attend the parties. If you don’t go to any parties, then there isn’t any problem. My school is considered one of the biggest party schools in the country – however, I only attended like one of them (not my scene either) and I know people who haven’t gone to any whatsoever. You can make friends with non-party-ers as well (sorry for making up random words lol). All in all, you can have fun without attending parties and you shouldn’t take their stupid comments too seriously.
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The last professor had us to use tax act demo for our final exam. However I was able to use the demo but when I had to save it on my pc to send it to him by e-mail.

I got a window poping up saying to buy the full version. So I never was able to turn in my final exam. That is the reason I failed else I would of gotten a C in that class.

Any ways, I am looking for websites to help me review accounting principals and also Federal tax.

I remeber struggling in that federal tax class. The professor never really help us out. When I asked a question he refered me to pages never explained anything. Some students start buying that Federal tax for dummies book.

I would like to know what I should do to help prepair for this second attempt at federal tax class. I also need to brush up on what I learned in accounting. I am forgetting accounting 2 stuff some stuff.
Like the shares of a company etc.

any help I would thank you for it.

You can try IRS self-calculating forms at pdftax.com. They are free and you can print them or email them. Tax info can be found at IRS.gov. I would look at Publication 17.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p17.pdf

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