U. Rochester Class of 2027 Official Thread

TB125
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:58:47 +0000

Yep, I should have looked more carefully.

We’re from out of the area and did a swing through NY and MA visiting schools that give merit aid. I saw you on the Syracuse forum too…UR and Syracuse were my kids two favorites. It’s rather sad UR relies entirely on need based I guess like the other elites that don’t have to discount to attract top students. Good for UR since I guess they can fill their freshman class anyway; sad for middle class folks like me that feel shut out. Honestly, I feel kind of sad as the Welcome! and Events! emails from UR roll in, but the kid is fine and has moved on. Hoping for Syracuse, we’ll see. Kid is just a science major not Newhouse or such. SU isn’t cheap without merit aid either.

Kid has UMass with plenty of merit aid but I suspect will decide on a good public school nearer to us.

Good luck to your kid and you. But you know as well as I that, even though it sounds like self-consolation and rationalizing in the face of disappointment, it’s far and away what he/she makes of college not the other way around.