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Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Rochester
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<p>D has got was she says is her final list. What are her chances at Rochester?</p>

<p>D is a rising senior from a relatively small, relatively poor, rural district in Texas. </p>

<p>2160 New SAT, 730CR, 740Math, 690W (same sitting), 32 ACT w/ a 36 Math. Currently 1/140. 4.64w,4.0/4.0uw.</p>

<p>Toughest courseload available including several college level (and EPGY BC Calc). School only offers two AP's for junior year, 4 in Lit and a 5 in AB Calc. 7 best in school awards: for Math (3 times), English (2), Physics (1),and Chemistry (1). (all honors sections, or AP)</p>

<p>4 year Varsity Basketball starter, 2 year Co-captain on Area Championship Team. Extensive Summer Basketball experience every year.</p>

<p>Marching Band and Symphonic Band Section and Line Leader on State Ranked Band (2 years officer, member all 4), State Qualifier -UIL Solo and Ensemble as a Tuba Player in a Bass Quartet.</p>

<p>Girl's State delegate, and minor elected official.</p>

<p>Regional Sixth Place Math UIL Competition and Math Team Co-captain (2 years)- District Champion (1), 3rd place large Invitational Math Tournament. </p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer (100 hours), community volunteering , school volunteering including tutoring at risk kids and hearing impaired kids for several hundred hours.</p>

<p>Part-time work: Raises sheep and goats of her own for her spending money. Lives on a ranch and performs general ranchhand activities for additional pay.</p>

<p>Normal boring Student Government, club, or organization stuff that probably won't make it to the app.</p>

<p>Rec's should be very good to exceptional, essays will be good.</p>

<p>Thanks, 5 more to go.LOL</p>

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<p>So we meet again Curmudgeon. My son graduated from Rochester in 2004 (I only have 2 children, so I can't help you with any other schools). He loved it, but he also really likes cold weather and snow. Their curriculum was perfect for him, with few requirements he was able to take the classes he really wanted to, and he was able to graduate with two majors (BA Math, BS Computer Science) in four years (he only had three APs). The resources available to the students for a school that size are phenomenal. I think your daughters stats would be great for Rochester and she'd be a serious candidate for a significant Merit Scholarship. Although it's been a few years and I know it's gotten somewhat more competitive, I think Rochester would be a pretty strong safety for her. Rochester is a fantastic school, but that said, weather REALLY is a factor (otherwise I bet it's selectivity would rival the most prestigious schools) and I don't know your D, but being from Texas I suspect it would be a major shock for her. Just curious, has she expressed any interest or are you just doing research?</p>

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<p>Nope. D's driving the bus. It may be that she's driving it off a cliff but hey-my job was setting the parameters. Her job-picking the schools. She has already sent info to the coach and e-mailed admissions and supposedly material is on the way. She killed Penn, added WashU and Rochester as more realistic reaches. Not her safeties , these are her reaches. When F/A is as important as it is to her, you make choices on different variables, and different planes all at once. Looks sloppy to the outside world but I sure hope it eats well. LOL.</p>

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<p>I wish your daughter the best of success (although Penn is nearest to my heart and my D will probably be disappointed to hear the band lost out on a tuba player). I don't think Rochester is as much of a reach as she seems to, unless she has her heart set on playing varsity, I don't know too much about that. Rochester does support Club teams that compete against other upstate schools (Cornell and Syracuse are two I remember) and many of the students participate in intramurals. I know of several kids who got rejected from Wash U. who ended up at Rochester, including one female recruited for soccer who didn't end up making the team. I lived in St. Louis for three years and their winters weren't anything to write home about either, cold and lots of ice storms. </p>

<p>Rochester also used to be very generous with the financial aid and with her academic stats she would have been guaranteed $10,000 yr. merit aid alone. But someone more familiar with the recent situation might know better, I noticed a few disappointed folks on this year's forum, and a few happy ones, hopefully one of them will reply. Well, I better stop posting or I'll have to change my CC name. (BTW, I'm an empty-nester, how do you find time to post with 6 kids).</p>

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<p>:eek:5 more schools to post chances threads for.LOL. Not 5 more kids.</p>

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<p>Lol. Ok, I'm a dork. I'm glad you don't have to go through this 5 more times - then you'd REALLY need financial aid. </p>

<p>On a serious side, you should check with her high school, they probably have statistics specific for her school for the stats of kids from there applying, accepted, rejected, waitlisted at different colleges which might be very different than the types of statistics you see posted here or which are in the college handbooks and would be much more appropriate for her to use. However, I also think with your daughter's stats she should just go ahead and apply to those colleges she'd like to attend, you never really know what type of aid they might come up with either - though in our case they stuck really close to the FAFSA/Profile for any need based aid.</p>

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<p>Lurkermom- hi, I just read your post above and wondered how son felt about the social climate on campus and the food. We visited a few times there and my son was turned off by the messy food areas and the inattentive staff in the food areas. (We were going thru the lunch line one visit and there were no forks available so I asked the checkout person where I would find them and she said if they weren't in the bin then they didn't have anymore...and then she just turned away.
Is this typical?
Thanks.
Rubyred</p>

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<p>My son says that the food wasn't bad, unless you're a vegetarian, but really overpriced. He says to only take declining $. After freshman year, he always lived in dorms that had kitchens in his room/suite, but always kept a minimum amount of declining $ for when he didn't feel like cooking or wanted to eat with friends (it can also be used for groceries). As far as social climate, it's what you make of it. There are tons of clubs, performing groups (incl. Eastman), student union, etc. available and it appears that many kids do intramural/club sports. My son has kept up friendships with kids from U of R from all over the country and a group of his friends are getting together for a reunion next month. That said, there's a LOT of snow in the winter, for my son it was a plus, but you need to at least consider it.</p>

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<p>I hear that the food at Rochester really is bad - bad service, aramark fed, lol, anyways - this is a major deficiency of Rochester - and they are doing a lot to make up for it in the past year. I live in a top tier 1 school , and when i eat on campus (this place is filthy damn rich , mind you) i get the same service and crappy food as i did at Rochester. I seriously think -any- campus food is lacking...except for a few schools who are really concentrated on food. anyways, UR is making changes - its all good.</p>