I have a graduate degree from FSC (now Framingham State University) and could not be more…read moresatisfied. I traveled over an hour every other Saturday to attend classes. The remainder of the program was online. The classes were small enough to allow personal instruction; the faculty was fantastic, professional, knowledgeable, and concerned to help each student realize their goals. There is a real sense of community at FSC, and I made life-long friendships. I paid the New England regional rate since I do not live in Massachusetts, but it was still quite reasonable. My graduate degree advanced my career; it was absolutely worth the expense. The campus is very green in the spring and summer with brick buildings. It's a beautiful campus. There is plenty of parking, at least on the weekends when I attended. It is very hilly and can get tiring to walk from the parking lots to the classes. I recommend this school highly.

I love FSU! They offer students a welcoming and engaging campus. It is a beautiful campus on a…read morehill, that provides a New England feel with Th convenience of being close to the city.

Excellent school for smart kids that need help with reading, math or comprehension. The teachers…read morehave excellent training. The curriculum and academics are on point. My kids loved the art and music program. They came to Hillside School not able to read. They returned to public school with top grades and studying skills. They are all going to attend college. We couldn't have done it with out Hillside.

Hillside encourages experience, learning, and getting better at sports. Although Hilllside is a…read moresmall community, it opens up to people to allow them to prosper. Hillside looses a credit rating because of the way that food is made. The food comes from Sysco, the company that makes window washer, and that's exactly what the food tastes like. On the other hand, Hillside's sports program is just a bit off. The Hillside motto, is that they will teach you anything you want to learn, but that's untrue. I had to sit out, because no one though I was good enough to Junior Varsity basketball. So, I had to sit on a couch for the whole winter, with no sport, doing my homework. It was honestly the most obnoxious lie I've ever heard from a school, loss of two approval stars.

Our son has had an absolutely amazing first three months at the Brighton School! He joined in the…read morethird grade, and we were initially a little concerned that he'd have a hard time being accepted because most of the kids had been in the school for years. However, everyone was SO welcoming, from the teachers to the administrative team, to the students. He's had a great year so far, and we can't wait for him to come home every day and tell us about all the great things he's done!

We have had all six of our children attend this school, including one daughter who just graduated…read morefrom MIT. You cannot beat a school with small classroom size, curricula adapted to the individual student and loving care from faculty.

I went there as a little kid and loved my time i am now in 7th grade and still remember the teacher…read morethere. they where so nice and they let my dad come in and talk to the kids about his job and they loved it. me and my family are still in touch with some of the teachers to this day and i will never forget them. from there i made life long friends and are still friends with them today.

as a first time mom, this was NOT a great place for my child. I picked her up one day and she was…read morebawling of being screamed at by the teacher, then there's was another time the teacher was ok with kids not including my child right I from of my and another mom she was talking to who actually laughed. No inclusivity it was a horrible experience. I'm glad I found a great prek and sending everyone I know of color to send their kids to the amazing prek I found not here.

Professional staff. Certified tutors with background clearance checks. Up-to-date material related…read moreto the ever popular common core.

I have an interesting insight into Dynamy and how amazing it is. My experience with Dynamy began…read morealmost ten years ago when I hosted my first intern from the program at a psychiatric facility I was overseeing. From my first experience with Dynamy, I could tell they truly cared about the students, the community and those they worked with. I loved it so much, that I eventually went to work for Dynamy. I spent 4 1/2 years there working with students, overseeing residential life and strengthening our bonds in the community. The culture, team and students made this easily some of the most memorable and enjoyable moments of my professional life. Fortunately and unfortunately, I moved on to pursue my bigger career aspirations. However, in my new role as a Director for a local Worcester technology company, I have made sure to maintain the connection to Dynamy. We host at least two interns per semester and the communication, follow through and genuine caring of the Dynamy staff toward the students and internship sponsors is still astounding. We love working with Dynamy and the interns have helped transform the way we are able to do business. Students work on web design, graphic design, content creation and more. Although I don't work at Dynamy anymore, I still consider it a second home. If you or your son or daughter are considering a gap year program, then Dynamy should be the first place you check out.

Our son just complete a full year experience at Dynamy. I cannot say enough positive about the…read moreprogram. It was just the right balance of support for growth in independence with scaffolding. Marcus had a great internship experience and learned much about himself as a member of the community in the process.

Very nice school to visit if you're going into the sciences. They gave a very informative…read moreinformation session where the really nice tour guide explaining about the different buildings and expectations. Some of the buildings were old and some of them were new... it's just nice to know that they put some money into the college. They were really helpful to show me to the information session even though we were late and it was raining out.

I never really thought about doing a review for a school/college until I noticed that one of the…read moretop reviews of the day was for Northeastern. Years removed from WPI, I still visit regularly and keep in touch with the many people that I became close to in my tenure at WPI. I was a student hall director/resident adviser for four years and feel like that gave me good perspective on what residents halls are worth staying at and which are worth avoiding. Basically the classic residents halls (not built within the last 5-years) break down as follows: Morgan/Daniels - Renovated in 2000 or so mostly 2-person and 3-person rooms, this hall was original built to be two person rooms, large floors Morgan is around 50 ppl per wing, Daniels 60 per floor, good for people who like to have a lot of acquaintances. Morgan is a clear view Hall, Daniels is more broken up and usually what happens is that three/four rooms clustered together in one area on the floor in Daniels become friends while Morgan with the open Hallway gives you more options. Riley was last renovated in 1995 or so, larger rooms, 5-6 people to the room suites, these are better for people that would like to have a close nit group of friends in lieu of acquaintances, the setting forces you to be close to your roommates which can be good or bad if your personalities don't match. daniels, morgan and Riley are all located on the quad and the closest to the campus. Stoddard is 3-buildings in a quad area, all floors are divided in the center by a bathroom and common area, there are 6 rooms on either side of the bathroom, the total number of people on the floor are smaller, usually there are a high number of exchange, long distances and foreign students in these buildings because these people are too far away to look at these dorms built in 1976, I don't believe these buildings have been renovated to date. Floor set up and numbers on the floor are good for developing a tight nit community. Common area in the center of the three buildings seems like it would/could be beneficial but seems like it is rarely used. Institute is removed from the campus in the vicinity of the fraternities, freshman assigned here usually complain about the walk to classes and the noise on weekends. The hallways are a little tight and the rooms are a little smaller, set up is akin to the combination of Morgan Hall and Stoddard in a sense. Founders was built in the mid to late 1980's i believe and has not seen a full renovation to date since being installed, larger suites than Riley with an added bonus of a common room good for groups of people going to college together that don't want to meet people outside of their group of friends. For classes the best recommendation that anyone can give you is to go to every class, sign up early for classes online in the event that you need to change and always sign up for ADLN options for classes even if you are on campus. The reasons for these area 1. some professors have a quiz that basically just consists of taking attendance, pretty easy to score 100%, pretty stupid to get a 0%. 2. Sign up for classes early because the popular classes and professors always sign up fast. In some instances required classes that are not your entry level requirements fill up almost immediately. 3. Sign up for ADLN because you always have the option to walk in and sit down in class if you fall behind but then also get the luxury to re-watch videos or even not attend the live class if you are unavailable. Construction in the area has been going on the for past 3-4 years which has made the already difficult parking situation on campus even more difficult, if you can avoid bringing a car onto campus and just walk or carpool with friends. Typically finding parking is easiest if you commute from WPI if you come in the morning and stay for that day. Word of warning if you are a parent, ALL visitor parking needs to be registered with Campus Police or you will be ticketed. Like most things in life, you will get out of WPI what you put into it and is not for everyone. There are a lot of programs, organizations, clubs, sports, activities and job opportunities available but like programs any where they typically don't come looking for you, so seek them out, try and go to a lot of things at least once to get an idea if it is something you would like to do and give things a chance. No one ends up enjoying college but just hanging out in there room all the time playing video games. Terms are 7-week terms, 4 per year, each term has different scheduling constraints based on the term, ie Calc 1 is only available A-term (fall). 10-day breaks in between terms with a month long break for x-mas (winter). Not many classes offered in E-term, like wise is a 7-week schedule. Typically 3-classes are taken per term. You can take 3-educational classes and one gym class a term without getting charged extra for the extra credits (full time student tuition).

Children flourish here, where they learn the most important skills of all: autonomy,…read moreaccountability, and how to be themselves in a world that would prefer for them to be quiet and to sit still.

I am a former student of SVS and unfortunately I cannot be proud of this affiliation. During the…read moreyears I attended and afterward I witnessed some blatant hypocrisy and violations of the school's stated philosophy, including by some of the most seasoned staff members. The claim is that decisions are to be made by the entire community via School Meeting, but the staff do in fact gatekeep and manage to exclude any ideas or proposals that they don't like without any discussion whatsoever. I personally have known quite a few people who were burned by the heavy-handed controlling efforts of certain staff members. Make no mistake: SVS is NOT a democratic school; it merely masquerades as one. If the founders don't like your idea (or don't like you), it won't be up for a vote; it'll be squashed preemptively. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with a school where students aren't in charge. But it shouldn't pretend to be what it's not.