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What is the TAKE FIVE SCHOLARS PROGRAM? The T5 program complements the University’s vision of a creative and flexible liberal arts education. Students have a tuition-free year to fulfill their…

Oops! Our reading season and biggest-ever class were such wonderful distractions this past year that we accidentally included information about Rochester’s annual unofficial second-chance Early Decision option (EDII) with a…

It's been almost two months into the fall semester and things have gotten quite interesting in France, where I am doing a semester abroad with the IES Business and International…

It's that time of the year again when the semester seems to moving forward at breakneck speed and classes start getting harder. Reading is piling up and activities are overwhelming.…

Seeing as it's mid-October, I will fully admit that it took me an embarrassingly long time to jump back on the blogging horse once I got to school this fall.…

Classes have been going for a while now, and I’ve found them to be incredibly interesting, and the workload has been manageable. My professors have been quite inspiring as they…

Jon Burdick writes the fourth part of a four-part series (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) on Rochester’s new “test flexible” stance for undergraduate admissions. Rochester readers review testing as something…

Hey, everybody! My name is Pedro Pablo Vallejo Ramirez, I am an international freshman here at the University of Rochester. I was born in Bogota, Colombia, but when I was…

Hi, everyone! My name is Heather Alico and I am a senior, brain and cognitive science (BCS) major. My focus in BCS is on neurodevelopment and language. I hope to…

Hello there, Welcome to what promises to be an eventful semester. It is great to experience a little bit of a campus whose liveliness stems from the activities of its…