Traditional college experience?

JoBenny
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:52:41 +0000

During my son’s college search last year RPI was definately a front runner. Maybe because my son was being recruited for a sport…but we got a great impression of the sports vibe there. Every sport benefits from the D1 hockey program. Their athletics complex was by far the nicest, newest and most impressive of any (predominately D3) program we visited. They have some good rivalry games (I know Union is a big one for football) and they make for really fun games. I know when Shirley Jackson took over the helm she had two major priorities - sports and the arts. On the arts side of things the EMPAC was also one of the nicest and most impressive buildings we saw during his search. Easy to pick up on the effort to make RPI more than “just an engineering school.”