<p>I need some insight about RPI... from classes to personal school life there and the enviornment...</p>
<p>RPI is excellent as an engineering/scientific/technical oriented university. So there's plenty of prestige here. It's a fairly small school (4900 undergrads and 1300 grads-which shows that it's an undergraduate oriented school). Small school with mainy undergrads means professors that care and small class sizes. You do find your share of really crummy professors, but mostly, professors do care, even if they sometimes don't have any teaching ability.</p>
<p>Studying is nice here. It's an engineering school, so everybody studies. You won't get distracted-too much at least. The workload is difficult, but isn't it that way in any tech school?</p>
<p>The campus is beautiful. Surrounding city is sorta a mixture of ghetto and hicktown. It looks like an urban center from the 1800s (the buildings are all victorian and in disrepair). Other than that, the area is a mixture of ghetto, hicktown, malls, and rural countryside (just like any other place in upstate NY). Albany is another ghetto.</p>
<p>Social scene is glum unless you join a frat. The incoming class is 78% male, and the few girls are pretty gross (like 1 out of 200 girls here are hot). There is a lot to do on campus, like clubs and stuff.</p>
<p>Weather-it's very cold and snowy and the winters are very long. It goes from a very cold winter from November to April, and then all of a sudden it gets very hot.</p>
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<h2>Social scene is glum unless you join a frat.</h2>
<p>That's not true, it's just glum if you don't know how/are too weird to make friends, which is the case for probably most of the people that go to RPI. I did join a fraternity, but some of my best friends are outside of it. The female situation sucks, it's compounded by the fact that girls know that the supply is much less than the demand. If you want some good advice date a Siena chick, and meet them downtown at the El Dorado.</p>
<p>One other item of note: Troy is a terrible place to go to school. There is little to do, and it is cold. However,if you want a top engineering education, you won't go wrong with RPI. Some relatives went there and love the education that they received. They now hold some high level responsible positions that pay reasonably well.</p>