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Get the inside scoop on University of Rochester (Simon) admissions. Vault provides detailed accounts by students & alumni of the admissions process, including advice on getting in, applications, interviews, essays, and selectivity.


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Admissions Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The admissions process was difficult but not unbearable. The interview was predictable. I think their reason for doing the interview is to see if ...   READ MORE
Alumni
The admissions process was simple and straight forward. While the interview is optional, I found that a good interview increased the chances of b...   READ MORE
Alumni
The admission process is pretty strenous at least for international students. After submitting the essays and GMAT result, I was interviewed over ...   READ MORE
Alumni
The admission process, while very detailed, was a pleasure because of the pleasant personalities with whom you deal. Many other business schools ...   READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The quality of the program is excellent. Though Simon may not be perfect, the quality of education that we get is outstanding. THe professors are ...   READ MORE
Alumni
As a small school, you get to take whatever class you want. No such thing as being bumped out of a class at Simon. The downside is, that you may...   READ MORE
Alumni
Excellent faculty and quality of education. The classes tend to be very strategy and quant-focused and were an excellent grounding for real life. ...   READ MORE
Alumni
The faculty at Simon is truly second to none. Simon seeks out the most talented professors and pays them accordingly. You will never hear a Simo...   READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Probably the biggest complaint of all Simon students is the Career Management Center. They generally do a poor job at recruiting companies to come to ...   READ MORE
Alumni
I went straight to Wall Street with a summer internship, and found I had multiple job offers to choose from. There is a strong alunni network in Fina...   READ MORE
Alumni
Simnon continues ot be very well regarded by the corporate comunity in the tri-state area esp. with companies that have recruited from Simon in the pa...   READ MORE
Alumni
Employers typically categorize Simon students as a Hidden Gem. Being typically ranked in the lower half of Top Tier surveys, Simon can't compete with...   READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Most students live within 10 minutes from campus, so commuting is not a big issue. Housing is widely available and reasonable by East coast standa...   READ MORE
Alumni
Quality of life was stellar. Rochester is a beautiful, small and safe city, so there is no harried big-city problems. However, Rochester has ple...   READ MORE
Alumni
Clean, inexpensive housing. Safe neighborhood.   READ MORE
Alumni
Rochester has about 1 million people in its city. It is basically a white-collar town and crime is extremely low. I lived in NYC for 28 years be...   READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Thursday night happy hours are pretty popular especially among the first year students. Rochester isn't the most hopping town but then again in b-...   READ MORE
Alumni
There are a couple bars near campus that different groups would co- ordinate happy-hours. These were always fun, but I found that these were the o...   READ MORE
Alumni
Mostly restricted to students but Rochester is very pretty during summer-time/spring and provides various opportunities for social interaction...   READ MORE
Alumni
There are way too many social things at Simon to do than the average student will have time for. Every Thursday night there were Happy Hours. Th...   READ MORE

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