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We're visiting colleges right and left this summer and enjoyed this one the best to date. DS is interested in engineering and with being on the east coast, traveling through NY this seemed like a great break/stop.

 

As we traveled through Troy the skies opened with rain so hard we could barely see the road on either side of the car let alone the city. We arrived before lunch and grabbed a bite in their student union. On the tour the student guide repeated several times that the student union is run by students. The food was quite tasty.

 

We joined about 50 other folks for an hour admissions talk. The man talked without notes and without any visuals. Quite poor. The room was not set to accomadate visuals either. He would talk for a little bit and then ask if we had any questions. Of course we all had questions because we had no idea where he was headed in his talk. Then suddenly he was finished talking he did not ask if we had any questions and just ended his talk, told us to take a break, turned his back on us and walked away. Everyone else we met was wonderful so maybe it was his first talk or he was having an off day.

 

Oh, homeschoolers are required to provide as much information as possible to convey the depth of study the student has had. SAT or ACT test scores are required. SAT2 tests are not required.

 

Our student guide Valerie talked a mile a minute, is finishing up her sophomore year and referred to herself as a nerd at least 2 dozen times. We did the walk through buildings seeing a large lecture hall, visiting a dorm room, the eating/commons area, and circled around the campus.

 

As for DS he liked how spread out the campus is and how the guide described classes, classmates student life. DS is a fish-out-of-water around most other hs'ers he knows and certainly related to the guide's descriptions. He is a bit concerned though about the 70/30 M/F ratio.

 

Carole

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I graduated from RPI in 1993. It was a wonderful and amazing place. I finally felt like I found people like me there. I met my husband there. I learned so much about myself and my place in the world. It was literally life changing. And I learned a ton of academic stuff too. If you have specific questions I would be happy to answer them as best I can.

 

Sometimes I wish I could go back there....

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We visited RPI when my ds was looking at colleges a few years ago. We didn't do the info session or official tour, but we walked around and peeked into a lot of the buildings. I also remember the friendliness of the people and the yummy cafeteria lunch, lol!

 

Dd is considering it for next year; maybe I should mention that 70/30 split to her?!

 

~Kathy

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