New Englanders - best driving route to RIT?

12dandelion
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:42:28 +0000

@Snowdog as you probably know the Rochester airport is not far at all from the RIT campus. Glad you found a travel plan that will keep you from being exhausted.

As I recall, we were done with accepted students day by 2 or 3 p.m., as we easily drove back home, and it’s about 4 hours for us. There was a general info session with everyone in the field house, then we broke out by colleges, then by the individual majors. Since my daughter is in the tiny museum studies program in the small college of liberal arts, we never felt crowded or rushed, but I assume it was different for the big engineering and computer science programs.

After a lunch break we could go on dorm tours (which D and I did) or a financial aid session (which my husband did). And I think that was it … there may have been another reception in the afternoon, but we wanted to get back since we had an even to attend at another school - in New England! - the next day.

You may have heard the campus is referred to as Brick City, and there certainly are a lot of angular brick buildings. Some folks are put off by that, but D seems to have adapted well and definitely wants to stay there. You’ll hear horror stories about ‘upstate NY winters’ but D hasn’t found it that different from our part of Northeastern NY, and you’ve certainly been through the ringer in New England this year.