Sara Shimmel is a junior from Lewiston, New York, working on a double major in political science and Spanish. She is a member of the Women’s Chorus and takes voice…

Jamie graduated in 2005 with a BA in Health and Society and a minor in Psychology. While at Rochester, she was an editor of the Campus Times and served as…

I’m not really sure how, but freshman year managed to end. I have found that people often spend so much time looking forward to things that, when they end up…

At my school, the music department takes a trip every year to some awesome place for competition. It isn’t really against other schools, because every group who performs gets a…

Leadership is more important than membership. This is related to the previous topic. When students apply to colleges and universities, we see their activities sheet—their résumé. There is also a…

By Justine Rumbel, Senior Admissions Counselor Every fall, my fellow admissions counselors and I visit high schools and meet with prospective students around the world to share information about college.…

Okay. Maybe that title is a little overdramatic. But really. I look on the U of R Class of 2015 Facebook page all the time and see how, one by…

A lot has happened in Admissions and on campus since my last post. We’ve enrolled the Class of 2015, we’ve seen the Class of 2011 graduate, and we’ve seen the…

Approximately a year and some months ago, no one ever thought the school year would be over so soon. From a freshman’s point of view, the year ahead looked very…

The end of May here in Rochester was all about the Lilac Festival. This is when everyone goes to Highland Park and walks around looking at the beautiful flowers on…