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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University of Rochester as a non-stem major. Got a large academic scholarship and was a multiple Gen legacy. I didn’t have much choice in the matter “back in the day.”

It was a fine experience but not the kind of ra ra make lifelong friends, intellectual type of college that others have.

Not something an 18 yr old would have known but my big regret is lack of name recognition outside NY. The expectation was that you would go direct to grad school. There was barely a career center and very weak alumni support.

I would not recommend for non-STEM majors, unless they plan to go directly to a brand name grad school. Of course, my DD wants pre-med so it’s on the list..

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My niece is a senior this year, interested in science, and both her counselor and I recommended this school. I was surprised at the lack of name recognition! It’s an excellent school. It is, however, a school much better known for its science and music programs. I compared it to Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon and maybe even Case. Did you find your education in a non-science area to be rigorous? And was the school hyper-competitive? [/quote]

Sorry for the delay. PP here - I agree it is on par with JHU, Case, Carnegie Mellon etc. non-science was good, loved most of my professors and took really interesting classes - the issue is that there aren’t as many humanity majors or investment so - the science building were state of the art, tons of science opportunities for research, internships, enrichment. Nothing for non-stem. Now it may have changed, I know they now have a big digital media program. But, even in DC where there are a lot of alumni - it still has close to zero name recognition for non-science fields. A little bit for Simon business school, but not to the degree it should based on rankings. [/quote]

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