<p>University of Rochester - Anybody have good info about this school? Thinking about applying, not 100% sure if it's a good school or not.</p>
<p>Wow... this is a real hot school this year...
Rochester is an excellent school (underrated in many areas) and very well respected.
First off, Rochester is located in the suburbs about 5-10 minutes from the city and is completely surrounded (protected) on all sides (helps with the nervous parents). It is a beautiful campus...
Rochester is an extremely small school (the second smallest research university in the world), so you get a lot of attention. There is no instruction by TAs except for the recitation periods. Also, there is no core cirriculum, you just choose courses from the three branches of learning: Science, Social Science, and the Humanity. You take your major in one and you take clusters in the other two. It gives you the freedome to learn what you want to learn.
You need decent grades to get in... The average SAT score hovers in the 1300's and you should be in the top 25% with B+'s and A's.
<a href="http://www.rochester.edu/admissions/visit/video.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.rochester.edu/admissions/visit/video.html</a></p>
<p>Great school, I know someone who goes there, he's premed and loves it. He was also accepted at Cornell but chose Rochester because of they way he felt there. His mom loves it too, it's a great size, very safe and it has a "good feel."</p>
<p>yeah i want to premed there, but i'm afraid of the workload, anyone know anything about the workload overthere?</p>
<p>premed workloads are tough no matter where you go. Rochester has a strong math/science reputation and the faculty seems to want to keep that reputation so the students are worked pretty well. Large lecture classes in the sciences the first year or so. Pretty much the old adage applies here: you can do well, you can have a social life, you can play a sport/have lots of activities--you can manage only two out of the three at Rochester.</p>
<p>I know a guy at rochester who skated his way through the first semester. and i know a girl who has struggled enormously. It's not that the guy is way smarter than the girl, so i would guess that U. of Rochester is what you make of it.</p>
<p>If I hadn't gone to Rice, I very well may have ended up at Rochester, I applied and everything, and it seems like a really great school. </p>
<p>Since you are pre-med, have you checked our the REMS program? It's top-notch, and difficult as anything to get into.</p>