<p>Which school is more highly regarded?</p>
<p>theyre not regarded very differently, just pick your favorite</p>
<p>Daughter accepted to both eventually chose UR</p>
<p>Colgate--remote location, LAC, great academics, very smart kids yet reputation as a party school due to strong frat culture</p>
<p>UR--outskirts of city, small highly regarded research univ., kids seem a little nerdy yet down to earth, was a better fit for daughter</p>
<p>Both schools made Newsweek's list of 25 "new ivies", but are very different.</p>
<p>Wow...I am so surprised at the question. I always thought that Colgate was WAY, WAY more highly regarded. Has UR changed that much?</p>
<p>spidey:</p>
<p>Check out the avg SAT scores of UR--they're quite high, though not as high as Colgate's</p>
<p>Colgate: freshman SAT scores in 600 or better verbal=86% math=90%
UR: freshman SAT scores in 600 or better verbal=72% math=82%</p>
<p>UR's endowment is close to 1.5 billion, which puts it in top 30 in that regard.</p>
<p>They are also very different in focus. Colgate is a liberal arts college, with very limited graduate programs. UR has a medical school, along with the Eastman school of music (which is right up there with Juliard).</p>
<p>Colgate's curriculum is very structured, while UR's is very open.</p>
<p>It comes down to a question of fit. Again, for my daughter, UR appears to fit her personality.</p>
<p>That is interesting - who knew? Good for UR! I do think though that there is this shine that some schools have over others, for example Julliard towers over Eastman in that regard. I'm not quite sure where it comes from - Tradition? Movies? Colgate definitely has more of a shine to it in terms of name recognition and sticker factor (that jazzed feeling parents get in their bellies when they attach the sticker to the back of their car). A lot is changing in the college marketplace, though, that is for sure.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your thoughts on this. My son picked Colgate and I was having second thoughts-- but he definately wanted a LAC-- so Colgate it is.
By the way Spideygirl, Rochester has come way up in the rankings since they reduced the size of their undergraduate school and introduced a more open
curriculum. And if I had to guess, it may have been harder to get into this year than Colgate.</p>
<p>When my daughter tells people she is going to UR next year, she gets one of two reactions: either a "Wow, good for you!" or "Is that a SUNY state school?" Colgate probably gets a more consistent reaction.</p>
<p>My daughter gets both of those reactions, plus "I didn't know you were interested in engineering" (from those who think it's Rochester Institute of Technology).</p>
<p>rochester rochester rochester!!! i love it here</p>
<p>and my dad teaches freshman writing there so you might end up with a pretty cool professor :)</p>