<p>I've been researching schools for what I want to study (cognitive science), and it seems like this school is perfect. It has a great cogsci department, it even has a study abroad program designed for that major! It's in a great location, has undergrad research opportunities, etc. Also I've read that the academics are on par with the Ivies.</p>
<p>Not to obsess over prestige, but how come this school isn't more well-known? I've seen on the Rochester forum that people are saying that the school could be their safety or their backup. Is the school as great as the website and reviews make it out to be?</p>
<p>I visited over the summer and loved the school. Part of it, like Lawrence or Rose-Hulman, could be the un-alluring location. I can’t really explain it; people are just fickle.</p>
<p>For some unknown reason the PR didn’t include it in the “best colleges” book, even though it is clearly “better” than MANY listed therein.</p>
<p>It seems like a great school to me. It is true that it is used as a safety by a lot of top students–because they realize that it’s a great place and they would get a good education and be among a group of smart people.</p>
<p>UR is and excellent school. I think that some people consider it an IVY safety but I think this is unfair. They have some excellent departments including one of the top music conservatories in the country, Eastman, which adds greatly to the overall culture of the school. They also offer merit aid.</p>
<p>lol ^^^^. He means Rochester Early Medical Scholar (REMS). Just like it sounds it is an early acceptance into medical school for undergraduates. Just like Brown’s PLME and many other combined programs</p>
<p>More proof that while rankings aren’t necessarily meaningless, the way they are employed in most conversations about a particular school’s quality or assets typically renders said rankings irrelevant.</p>
<p>@ GoBlue81,
The Take 5 program is one thing that a lot of students are taking advantage of in the school. It was originally created for engineering majors but later expanded for everyone else.</p>
<p>The workshop program is really great. It is in place for almost every class in the school. I took Spanish this fall and there was a workshop. So beyond the teacher teaching in class and you doing the assignment, the workshop forces you to interact with your fellow students by practicing ongoing lesson in spanish.
You will def find it in all the science classes which is extremely helpful.
And yea it was developed by U of R faculty.</p>
<p>the reason that the University Of Rochester wasn’t in previous Princeton Review books was that it must have refused to let their students participate in the survey. Some schools have pulled themselves from the Princeton Review surveys because of the negative reviews they are getting in the book (example: Washington & Lee, they got bad reviews about greek life, partying etc…)</p>