CampusScoop

About

Who runs this

A small team of Tulane students. CampusScoop started as a class venture in MKTG 4250, a Tulane marketing course, and the same team builds the site, writes the rules, and reads every post before it goes up.

Team: MKTG 4250 students

We don't list our names yet, but we're not hiding: the address above reaches the team, and a person answers it.

Some place pages also have a team roundup: a short summary we write of what's already been said about a place in public, with links to where we found it. It's clearly labeled, it isn't a student review, and it never counts toward a place's score or its number of scoops.

How is the “What students say” box made? Once a place has at least three approved scoops, its page shows a short summary above them. The score numbers (the average, how many people gave a score, the most common score, and the chart) are calculated directly from the approved scoops. The “most mentioned good things” and “most mentioned problems” are generated automatically from the text of those approved scoops, so they can miss nuance or leave things out. They are not written by a person, and they are not the team's opinion. They never name anyone, and they're rebuilt whenever a scoop for that place is approved or taken down. The scoops themselves are the real thing: read them.

Why we built it

Everyone arrives at Tulane knowing the version of it that fits in a brochure. The rest you pick up in pieces, usually a semester later than would have been useful — which dorm to avoid, which requirement to take early, which advice was wrong.

That knowledge already exists. It's just stuck in group chats and in people who are about to graduate. This is an attempt to write some of it down.

What we're not

We're not affiliated with Tulane University in any way. Nobody at the university reviews, approves, or endorses what's posted here, and the opinions on this site belong to the students who wrote them.

We're also not a place to rate people. You can say who taught a class, but a post is about the teaching, never the person. That line runs through all of The Rules, and it's the one we enforce hardest.

Get the app

CampusScoop works as an app on your phone, with no app store involved: add it to your home screen and it opens full screen with its own icon. Here's how, on iPhone and Android.

Talking to us

Questions, ideas, a place we got wrong, or a post you think should come down: campusscoopmktg4250@gmail.com.

You can also follow us on TikTok and Instagram (@campusscoopapp). For anything about a post, email is the reliable way to reach us.

If a post breaks the rules, you can also use the “Report this post” link under it. See how reporting works, and our Privacy page for what happens to the information you send us.