In response to (Message Deleted by Poster) (Lets Have More Professionalism)

Reply #31 on: June 09, 2009, 12:10:34 AM, by Raoul Duke

I would only add that, for my part, I did not work at this institution. However, as a long-term resident of Suzhou, I had a great many personal, real-time, in-the-flesh friends who DID spend time there...and ALL of them had much to say about this school.
This was not some remote, unsupported ax-grinding I read on the internet. This was over-a-real-table opining received from a substantial number of people whom I knew well, telling essentially the same stories over a substantial number of years. This falls into the realm of "local reputation"...and while it's not the same as direct work experience, I submit that it's a perfectly valid basis for forming an opinion about a school...perhaps even more valid and illustrative than the testimony of one single person who worked there and was lucky enough to have a good experience.
The first-hand accounts I received had little good to say. Complaints about the location and the administration were universal themes. I don't care to rip up a Suzhou school that hasn't wronged me personally- indeed, I'd love nothing more than to have a place there that I could unabashedly recommend to people- but I'd be remiss in my duties here if I failed to pass on such a large and uniformly-negative body of data...some of which is still less than a year old.

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