<p>When I went on the campus tour of RPI, students in the dorms would throw open their windows and shout at us, “DON"T COME HERE! IT SUCKS! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GO TO A STATE SCHOOL!” I found it funny and charming that the school would have this quirky tradition.</p>
<p>It took me about 2 months to realize they were serious. I stuck it out. We had some fun mixed into the years of misery. Go to Drexel and enjoy your experience, but try to get the folks to allow you to live on campus (a good friend of mine at RPI was from Albany, another from Troy). The co-op experience and the ability to keep a reasonable GPA, in the long run, will be more important than the slightly better name recognition of Rensselaer.</p>
<p>By the way, Russell Sage is now co-ed so the male:female ratio is even worse.</p>