New Englanders - best driving route to RIT?

oldmom4896
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:01:32 +0000

Another mom of a happy freshman here. We reserved via Hotwire and wound up here:
http://www.woodcliffhotelspa.com/
I think you can figure it out via the facilities offered on Hotwire and the zone on the map. It’s a lovely place, maybe 20 minutes to campus. And the price was great, less than $100/night for a room with 2 queen-size beds. And we were checked in by a very happy student doing his RIT coop there!

Another strong vote for the Facebook group for parents of incoming freshmen. Very helpful.

We also opted for lunch with my daughter’s college.

Check out the whole schedule. Other activities we found helpful were touring specialty houses (my daughter wound up in Photo House as a result, although her major is not connected with photography at all), and the meeting with the premed advisor. She answered many questions from students who were in several different colleges and majors and had premed ambitions, and there were upperclassmen on their way to medical school as well.

Someone asked about the local accepted students receptions. We live in Brooklyn, NYC and attended the one in Manhattan last year. It was a lot of fun. There were recent grads, current students, and of course the tireless Shawna Lusk, orientation director. My daughter had connected with other incoming freshmen via their Facebook group and once she found her friends, I didn’t see her again until we went home at the end.