Overview
College guides written by students for students.
Your ultimate source for honest, unbiased information, College Prowler delivers an inside look at the top colleges and universities in the United States. While writing our series of college guides, we felt it was critical that our content was unbiased and unaffiliated with any college or university.
We think it’s important that our readers get honest information and a realistic impression of the student opinions on any college campus—that’s why we intend to publish information about all aspects of a particular college, even the terrible parts you wouldn’t find in a campus brochure. While we do keep an eye out for the occasional extremist—the cheerleader or the cynic—we take pride in letting the college students tell it like it is. We strive to create a college guide that’s as representative as possible of each particular campus. Our guides cover both the good and the bad, and whether the survey responses point to recurring trends or a variation in opinion, these sentiments are directly and proportionally expressed through our guides.
College Prowler guides are in the hands of students throughout the entire process of their creation. Because you can’t make student-written guides without the students, we have students at each college campus who help write, randomly survey their peers, edit, and perform accuracy checks for every college guide that we publish. From the very beginning, student writers gather the most up-to-date stats, facts, and inside information on their colleges. They fill each section with student quotes and summarize the findings in editorial reviews. In addition, each college oruniversity receives a collection of letter grades (A through F) that reflect student opinion and help to represent contentment, prominence, or satisfaction in each of our 20 specific categories. Just as in grade school, the higher the mark the more content, more prominent, or more satisfied the students are with the particular category.
Once a college guide is written, additional college students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team—a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project—are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the guide accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the nearly 300 colleges and universities College Prowler currently covers. Each guide is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every college that we cover. It’s no easy accomplishment, but it’s the reason that our college guides are such a great resource.
When reading our guides and looking at our college rankings, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each college are not uniform—as a result, it is important to assess colleges on a case-by-case basis. Because it’s impossible to summarize an entire college with a single number or description, each guide provides a dialogue, not a decision, that’s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!
Synopsis
College guides written by students for students.
Texas Christian University Students
Tell It Like It Is
Some slang you need to know before moving to Fort Worth:
* Ain't - Is not, am not, are not
* Big D - Dallas
* Cowtown - synonym for Fort Worth
* DFW - the Dallas-Fort Worth area
* Fixin' to - going to, about to, preparing to
* Howdy - Hello
* Metroplex - the metropolitan area consisting of Dallas, Fort Worth, and the outlying areas
* Y'all - The plural of you; a conjunction of "you all"
There's a lot more to a school than a brochure can tell you, and College Prowler's got your back! Find out everything the students think you should know before you make your college decision!
"TCU isn't a stuffy church school. It's a place where students are encouraged to spread their wings, try new things, and branch out."
"With 28 Greek organizations and nearly 40 percent of students involved in Greek life, fraternities and sororities definitely stake their claim at TCU. Most students do not feel pressured to join a Greek organization, though some feel it is vital in order to really take part in the social scene."
"The professors seem to know what they are doing at TCU, and they understand how to teach, except for a few exceptions... Small classes create an intimate setting between professors and students, which makes the whole learning process more personal."
"TCU is not known for diversity-most of the student body is Anglo-American. However, despite the lack of ethnic diversity on campus, the student body is open-minded, and students can't recall any significant cases of racial prejudice atTCU."
"From the stickers on their cars, to the sold out football games, TCU students clearly take pride in the school. It is not uncommon to see the student section at sporting events as a sea of purple, especially during football season."
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Read our Texas Christian University guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
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