January 2011 admission

WayOutWestMom
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:15:21 +0000

Oddly, I recently met a young woman who was a January 2010 UR admit at a wedding I attended in early March. She was a friend of both the bride and the groom, whom she had met while doing a fall semester abroad program.

I had a chance to talk to her several times. (I mean I had to! What are the odds of meeting a UR student in suburban Denver at a wedding of the son of dear friends? Also she and I both were staying at the same hotel and I ended up driving her to the home of the groom’s family several times.) I told her my D was a UR sophomore and I asked how she was settling in at Rochester. Although she seemed to be a fairly shy person, she told me that while it was a bit strange to be starting classes in the spring after a semester off, she had felt welcomed at UR and had not been treated as leper or second class citizen by either the administration or any of the students. She said that the orientation was thorough and useful, and that her new roommate had been welcoming and helpful. She had no problem in ‘getting into the swing’ of things at her new school.

Like your son, UR was her first choice and she too was disappointed that she wasn’t accepted for fall term. She said that while to decision to start ‘late’ was a hard one, it’s one she’s glad she made because UR was worth waiting for.

I put her in touch with my D (who was at our home in another state on spring break), but the two girls quickly discovered they had absolutely nothing in common.