What's unique about UofR?

<p>So far, I love it's research and academic programs, but what else is really great about UofR? It doesn't have to be completely unique, but just relatively rare. What little aspects of UofR do you really like about it?</p>

<p>I can think of several things, as a parent of a new graduate. Here are 3:</p>

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<li><p>The curriculum. Look up Rochester Curriculum. Rather than core requirements, you take clusters of related courses in a field. These can count toward a minor or second major and that means a very large number of kids double major, have multiple minors, etc. The idea is also, in part, to make it so students take classes they want to take and professors have students who want to be in that class. This is generally true, though of course every major has its specific pre-reqs. </p></li>
<li><p>The extent of club involvement. According to the school, almost all the kids get involved in at least one campus club. These clubs are activities or interests and range from dance or juggling to politics. Clubs allow people to cross lines that would otherwise divide them.</p></li>
<li><p>Involvement in class / research. My kid is not unique in this. There are lots of opportunities for research. My kid and many others also acted as TA’s for intro courses, which meant running study sessions, preparing notes and a bunch of other things. By research, I mean stuff that can be meaningful. Again, my kid is not unique but had research presented at a major conference and ended up with a name plate on a cubicle in a research building. A researcher in my kid’s field spent hours editing the kid’s resume.</p></li>
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<p>@Lergnom I appreciate your response, and I acknowledge the rareness of the Rochester Curriculum, but those aren’t really all that unique. In fact, despite its name, I have found academic curricula similar to Rochester’s. where you choose different areas of study (clusters) as well as a major. Club and research involvement is pretty great at other top schools. So these points make UofR a great school, but it doesn’t make it unique among great schools.</p>

<p>I’m looking for unique details, and it can be really small things like free afternoon tea (Claremont Mckenna), but anything that’s really cool about UofR specifically.</p>

<p>I doubt there’s anything completely unique anywhere. So they bring puppies on campus every month for kids to pet - some other schools do. They have this thing called Boar’s Head Dinner - other schools have their traditions. There are traditions about going up into the top of the Rush Rhees dome - but again other schools have traditions. </p>

<p>So these traditions can be unique or rare to UofR, while traditions at other schools are unique to theirs. These traditions are exactly what I’m looking for, if they are rather unique. </p>

<p>Could you please tell me a bit more about them?</p>

<p>Here are some basic answers:</p>

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<li>Scroll down [this</a> page](<a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/campus/]this”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/campus/).</li>
<li>Some of these are gone but some continue. They do, for example, paint the tunnel. [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V62N3/feature4.html]Here[/url”&gt;Rochester Review • University of Rochester]Here[/url</a>].</li>
<li>And of course wikipedia: [url=&lt;a href=“University of Rochester - Wikipedia”&gt;University of Rochester - Wikipedia]here[/url</a>]. Meliora weekend is a really big deal, with speakers, events and reunions. My kid volunteered.<br></li>
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