College Application Advice From Current Students
The fall of senior year is like riding a roller coaster. You are expected to stay on track with college applications, rigorous classes, extracurricular activities, work, and so much more.…
The fall of senior year is like riding a roller coaster. You are expected to stay on track with college applications, rigorous classes, extracurricular activities, work, and so much more.…
As you all know, it’s application season! You must be wondering if Rochester is the right fit for you and application deadlines are getting closer every day. Around this time,…
Pictured above: UR Habitat members in October 2022 at the build site for the home they cosponsored. Credit: Flower City Habitat Do you enjoy volunteering in your community? And do…
College is hard, especially in a new environment and possibly a new city. Even though the University of Rochester is not that big, it’s a significant transition from high school.…
8:45 a.m. My alarm goes off, and I blearily emerge from a cocoon of blankets to jump up and silence it. I’m not blessed with being a morning person, but…
Like many other students in the class of 2020, I initially struggled to adjust to university life. Orientation and most first-year events were moved online due to COVID, and all…
As a way to better understand how to write a great application supplement, it’s important first to define the difference between the personal statement and the application supplement. These styles…
If you have taken any time looking at the University of Rochester’s humanities departments you’ll see that there are several different areas of study. Full of programs, professors, libraries, even…
It’s September so you know what that means: college application season has arrived! As you are narrowing down your list of schools and sending out your applications, those letters of…
Maybe you are a person entirely engrossed in history and you can’t stop visiting museums. Maybe the class “Science, Magic, and the Occult” sounded appealing to you. Maybe you wanted…