@drewsmom17
A few factors were at play for me.
1.) Financial Aid. RIT was incredibly generous towards me with financial aid, and I actually may be looking at graduating debt free because of my internships. (Paying for school myself, not my parents.)
2.) The computing programs here are focused. We all still get a solid base coding skill set, but the programs become more tailored to what you want. A lot of people initially come in as CS, but then realize they’d prefer software engineering or web and mobile computing. For me, I was interested in UI/UX and accessibility. RIT has some great resources to help me with that and is top ranked for it.
3.) It wasn’t overwhelmingly huge. RIT is a big campus, yes, but I see familiar faces every day.
4.) I liked the atmosphere of the campus. Everyone seemed like they were happy and genuinely interested in what they were doing. Mid-semester tends to get everyone a little down with their classes, but I haven’t experienced that yet this semester for some reason. If you can, come out for ImagineRIT on April 28th! That’ll be cooler than any tour you could take. (Heck, I’ll take you guys on a private tour!) Imagine RIT is the day of the year that the campus welcomes the public to demonstrate all of our research and projects we’ve been working on.
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