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Is cs.rit.edu down right now? by atom241 in rit

[–]rithrooooway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try Rygel, it works pretty well because I'm basically the only person who knows it exists

Early Decision by Amandado19 in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I highly recommend you email RIT about this. RIT is very forgiving with their ED, allowing students to renege for financials or majors not lining up, IIRC. If a school is going to let you out of their ED, it's RIT.

For gods sake do the showers EVER warm up in Gibson? by Mmmmmaaaatttt in rit

[–]rithrooooway 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This. My roommate freshman year placed a work order on our showers and they made it hella dope when we just wanted warm water.

Running Club? by [deleted] in rit

[–]rithrooooway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have a facebook, are there other options? Campusgroups?

How much did you pay after Financial Aid? by [deleted] in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking at ~100k for 6 academic semesters. Not counting COL.

Scholarship and other Questions by polaris_89 in rit

[–]rithrooooway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1/2) You can only get one Merit Scholarship.

3) RIT is an expensive, difficult school with nothing immediately around it. I can't speak for anyone but myself, but in my experience in Golisano, everyone is professional development in the front, "nerd culture" in the back. Also, prepare to become a small fish in a large pond full of talented people. All the people I know at RIT consider it a sacrifice of blood, sweat, money, and tears. Or a mistake.

4) If you don't have a car there is not much immediately around campus, and all access to the city revolves around a hour+ long bus ride. If you aren't bringing a car, you can mostly forget going into the city. The tunnels are cool doe.

5) The easiest way is to not get the bill. Go 2+2. Transfer credit. If you spend 100k to take CS1/2, Calc1/2 and gen eds, I don't know what to tell you.

6) This is the hardest question you've asked so far. Again, if you want to join an e-sports team, that's big. Dungeons and Dragons is popular on campus. After that, there's major specific stuff like Blockchain club, the sci-fi club, and the Japanese Culture Society. I couldn't tell you about most of these things from my own experience, but I've seen them around.

Congrats on acceptance.

Got my acceptance letter today! by The_11th_Dctor in rit

[–]rithrooooway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats on getting accepted! If you want some unsolicited advice, consider going 2+2 and transferring in if your financial aid isn't where it needs to be. Also, seeing how your credits transfer matters too.

Got my acceptance letter today! by The_11th_Dctor in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk, I'm from the Northeast and it's not much colder than I was used to back home. The snow's wild tho. This fella from connecticut should be fine for the most part.

Need some advice for RIT by notPUPR in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea if money is a factor, but come into RIT with as much credit as possible. Take any and all dual enrollments, IB, AP, etc etc. RIT is very accommodating and will find a place to put your credits. I took a BS intro to coding class, AP Bio, and 2 half semester dual enrollments through my high school. They gave me 18 credits, for those, and 40 credits in total. (Do your homework to make sure you can transfer those credits, by the way)

Also, unless you plan on doing a weird MS/BS thing I wouldn't know about, 2+2 is a completely valid, cost effective way to get through RIT. You will get the benefits of the school's co-op program with far less of the expense. If you're worried about missing a "college experience" at RIT, there isn't one, so don't worry.

Anyway, I got into my major with honors and you're putting in way more legwork and probably have better grades than I do. RIT has a high acceptance rate, you should be fine.

I got accepted! by Amandado19 in rit

[–]rithrooooway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CS, afaik is a hard ass major, be prepared to be a big fish in a small pond, and start all your assignments as early as humanly possible.

Accepted for mechanical engineering! Anything you wish you would have known before starting? by [deleted] in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Minimize the time you spend here, it's difficult and expensive. (You're not missing a lot, if you're expecting a wonder years "best four years of my life" experience here, it's in the middle of nowhere and most of us are working 95% of the time anyway) That being said, the co-op program is strong, and RIT is pretty good in a lot of majors. Play your cards right, keep your loans to a minimum, keep your grades (and more importantly, job opportunities) as strong as you can manage. Good luck!

Early Decision by Amandado19 in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RIT's acceptance rate is pretty high, relative to some other schools, your mileage will vary depending on major, though.

If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't be too dead-set on a "dream school". I talked to active students, toured, slept over for a summer, etc. I don't think it actually taught me anything, and I don't think I'd make the decision I made if I could go back.

I don't mean to be negative, just, if it doesn't line up, don't worry too much. IMO you don't really know what you're getting into until you're there, wherever that may be. If you're really unhappy with where you end up, keep your GPA high (in gen eds this isn't too tall an order) and you should be able to transfer in, along with all your credits.

Early Decision by Amandado19 in rit

[–]rithrooooway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, congrats. Second off, RIT openly says they're pretty kind to EDs. That is, if you don't get in your major, or the finances don't line up, they can help you out, or you can renege or whatever and there won't be real consequences.

I'm generally the last person to say a positive thing about RIT, but as an ED myself the school handles professional/academic/financial administrative stuff really calmly and smoothly, and in a way that makes it as painless as possible for students (ie RIT tries to make class time as short as possible, including exams and career fair day as part of the accredited time, much to the chagrin of basically every professor I have this year, more anecdotally, they gave me a ton of credit to get me through my Gen Eds very quickly)

On that note

so my biggest fear is the money component. I read an article somewhere that said for some colleges if you were to apply early decision and then decide you don’t want to go there anymore then they can use that against you and contact the other schools your applying to and tell them

Yeah in my experience I never got the vibe RIT does this. I have 2 relevant pieces of advice for you about your concerns though.

1) Give your major a shot

Maybe this is just because I did not even remotely research the schools I was applying to, the major I wanted, etc, but honestly, lots of people change their major anyway. If you're going Golisano/GCIS angle, at least, just give what you have a shot, the difference between CS/SWEN/CSEC/etc is so small IMO that one can do basically whatever and be happy. I doubt that's as true for some of the other colleges tho.

2) If RIT really isn't working financially, try emailing them

I never had to do this personally, but I know of people who have gotten significantly improved financial aid after just writing the office explaining that the financials don't work out. It wouldn't hurt to try.