We would like to visit University of Rochester and would be driving from the Hartford, CT area. Is there any kind of app that gives you colleges from point A to point B? (If not, someone should invent one!)
In the meantime, if anyone can suggest some, that would be great. I can see from the map that we would be driving through Albany and Syracuse and could maybe get to Colgate on the way, but wondering if there are others. (We are interested in looking at medium-sized schools, so Albany and Syracuse wouldn’t fit the bill anyway.) Thanks for any help!
The Fiske Guide iPad edition has a map feature. In each college’s entry, you can choose to see it on a map. Said map also shows other colleges in the Fiske Guide.
if not Albany and Syracuse, the rest are smaller liberal arts colleges. Skidmore in Saratoga Sprs, Union College in Schenectady, Hamilton in Clinton, Colgate in Hamilton. For a side trip, you can hit Ithaca College and Cornell in Ithaca, about 1.5 hrs south of Syracuse. Also, there are Smith (girls only), Mt Holyoke (girls only), Amherst, UMass, and Hampshire college all around Amherst, MA, and you can do a brief side trip to hit Williams College in western Massachusetts. From Hartford, you can get to Wesleyan within an hour and Trinity and U of Hartford are in Hartford. What is your D/S interested in studying?
Really depends what you are seeking, there aren’t many schools that are U of R’s size up that way, more over towards Boston. We did the same exact trip from Hartford last summer, hit Skidmore, Union, Colgate, Syracuse and Rochester.
SUNY Geneseo, Binghamton, ESF (in Syracuse) are others. Also Vassar, Bard and Williams, but those and the 5 college consortium schools are close enough to be an easy day trip from Hartford. How small are you willing to go? When we toured, my kid wanted to look just at medium and large schools but after 2 visits is excited to be headed to a small school this fall (2000 students) and regrets not having applied to an even smaller one with 1500.
Hamilton and Colgate are right off the NYS Thruway within 30 minutes of one another. In Syracuse, you can visit SU, Lemoyne, and SUNY ESF. If you want to head south from Syracuse on Route 81 then you can see SUNY Cortland, SUNY Binghamton, Ithaca College, and Cornell. SU and Cornell are huge schools. They are in two completely different cities that your dtr might find interesting.
We stopped at Geneseo, RIT, and The Univ of Rochester in the same day.
If your school uses Naviance, check to see if it also includes the ‘College Maps’ feature. Not every HS uses/offers the same Naviance features. I can click on Colleges That Accepted Our Students, Where Our Students Are Attending, and Top 20 Most Popular Where Our Students Applied. You can zoom in to have highways appear.
Using Exit 33 (Verona), Colgate is at the most 35 minutes south of the Thruway. Really the only other “medium sized” schools I can think of that would be convenient would be RIT (especially if planning a STEM major) and SUNY Geneseo, which is 35 minutes directly south of Rochester.
“Colgate isn’t exactly " right off the Thruway”–it’s a good 45 minutes south of Utica. IIRC, Hamilton is much closer to I-90."
That is why I worded it “Hamilton and Colgate”. Hamilton College is right off the Thruway and less than 7 miles from the exit, and then the ride to Colgate takes about 30 minutes from there.
If you’re willing to go an hour the other way out of Hartford, you’ve got Connecticut College, Wesleyan, Quinnipiac and Yale. Could easily do a southern loop over to Bard, Vassar, then up to Albany and over to the Syracuse, Cornell, Ithaca, Hobart etc area on the way to Rochester.