UR vs. Colgate/Greek Life

Ratzer
Fri, 18 May 2012 21:33:50 +0000

My daughter is going to be a senior. Time flies so fast.
My D has loved the social life. She is in a sorority and plays club field hockey. She tends to participate in a lot of intramural fundraisers that have a sporting component. She is in the minority there.
The orintation groups at UR are done very well. They consist of boys and girls. The girls in the group all live next to each other in the dorm. Their roommates are in a different group. This facilitates them knowing the people around them much faster. My daughter settled in quite quickly.
The only fault I have with the school is the registration process. You register with your whole class even if you have more credits. Everyone logs on and registers at 7am on a certain day. Not everyones goes through due to the heavy traffic. My D went in with a lot of AP credits so essentially needed to register for upper level classes. The good professors and times were taken up by the upper classmen and she got the less interesting and visiting professors. She taught herself a lot of the subjects her freshman and sophomore years due to poor professors. It was a frustrating time academically. My other child is at Elon and they have a much finer breakdown in registration times that rewards those that go in with some credits. He was able to register before the majority of his class did. Education should be the first reason you go to school right? I tried to get her to transfer many times. Circling back to your question - she loved the school and social life too much to change.