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thshadow
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 06:04:26 +0000

Can you comment at all about what the students are like, from a social point of view?

My DD really liked RIT, where the admissions officer said “this is not a party school”, and she liked the goofy nerdy maybe even awkward vibe she saw there… We also saw U of Rochester - which she strongly disliked. I think she thought the kids were too … preppy? She thought it was “Harvard-lite” - which she meant as an insult. When we toured RPI, the baseball manager gave the admissions talk, and all the talk about athletics wasn’t her cup of tea. But we didn’t get much impressions of the personality of the student body from the tour (maybe because it was raining the whole time).

I’m wondering if you can give some color about the type(s) of students at RPI. (She wants to major in CS, in case that matters.)