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Hi, I'm curious about Henrietta because I'm interested in attending RIT for graduate school. How is it? Does it have good public transport so RIT students can ride into Rochester? Why is RIT in the middle of the suburbs instead of the city anyways? I'm asking because I'm tired of schools that are in the middle of nowhere that you can only access stuff if you have a car.
RIT used to be in the city, in fact it was in downtown Rochester for the first 140 years of its existence. But by the 1960's the school had outgrown it's city campus and needed more space for it's growing student body, so they built a newer, much larger campus out in Henreitta as the city really had no more open space on which to expand anyways.
Maybe they could have built on the bend of the river where UofR is now and stayed in the City if UofR hadn't beat them to it in the 30's! lol
If you want to be in the city and don't mind the possibility of being around a bunch of UofR grad students, you could still live in the Park Ave area and commute to RIT. It wouldn't be more than a 20 minute commute. Not ideal but it's not a terrible option and I've heard that a lot of RIT students to so for the same reasons you seem to be hesitant to live in Henrietta.
RIT used to be in the city, in fact it was in downtown Rochester for the first 140 years of its existence. But by the 1960's the school had outgrown it's city campus and needed more space for it's growing student body, so they built a newer, much larger campus out in Henreitta as the city really had no more open space on which to expand anyways.
Maybe they could have built on the bend of the river where UofR is now and stayed in the City if UofR hadn't beat them to it in the 30's! lol
If you want to be in the city and don't mind the possibility of being around a bunch of UofR grad students, you could still live in the Park Ave area and commute to RIT. It wouldn't be more than a 20 minute commute. Not ideal but it's not a terrible option and I've heard that a lot of RIT students to so for the same reasons you seem to be hesitant to live in Henrietta.
What about Swillburg or Ellwanger-Barry(aka Highland Park)?
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