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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would suggest visiting the school first.

Snow aside, the location (Rochester) is less than desireable to put it kindly.  It is a dirty, depressed, former industrial town that had its heyday in the post WW2 era and has been declining ever since.  The crime is not good.  The city was once pretty but is empty and a shell of itself.

My kid was accepted there and was offered a ton of merit, almost full pay.  But they couldn't get past the dinginess of the town and the crime.  For example, we saw a homeless guy threatening to kill someone they blocked into a bus shelter, at around noon on the perimeter of campus.  It is unfortunate that the town of Rochester is such a disappointment, because if it had been any other location with that program and the amount of merit given, my kid would have loved to attend the school.

You might not mind the town, but for us it was a deal breaker.

I really recommend visiting this school before putting it on your list, especially coming from a well run state like Florida.[/quote]

See we thought rochester was better than we expected.  My kid loves it there.  Yes, it's a gritty town but the crime is not worse than most cities that size.  Yes, you need to know that one of the "bad sections of town"/higher poverty is across the river from campus.

Perhaps it helps that my older kid attended a Jesuit university---those are located in urban areas, typically not the nicest areas as they are near the areas that need their help the most.  So relatively speaking, Rochester was a lot safer than my older kid's campus.  
Also, we live in a city, so we are used to what living in a city means.

Campus is beautiful, and it's basically a contained campus, with the river on one side, a cemetery on another side and the hospital on the other side (with a main road between them).  So it's not a Boston U smack in middle of city with no campus borders really

And yes, rochester is not Boston---but it's not Ithaca or Troy either---both of those are extremely depressing cities and under no circumstances did my kid want to spend a minute there.

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