Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Campus Strictness

Professional Systems, Help, and Freedom

Living in the dorms is a great experience for freshmen - visitors are allowed and an "advisor" of sorts is usually always available. As you get into the later years of undergrad, those same resources develop into trained professionals who are not always available but are paid for, even if you have to wait a bit. Student healthcare is mediocre but performed with a SMILE, and that says a lot. In terms of censorship, it's something relatively felt under the "reign" of Shirley Ann Jackson, but people tend to just ignore it. You can definitely tell that it's a "right wing" science school, and not a liberal arts school in Vermont - so you need to take it for what it is. :)

Pretty Good

Unless you are a smoker, there are not many rules.

Plagiarism Is Watched Carefully

Honesty is both a written and unwritten rule on campus. Very few cases of plagiarism crop up over the course of a typical semester, but none of them go unnoticed. The faculty, administration, and even most students work together to stop cheaters. Punishments are very severe, leading to a minimum of loss of credit and scholarships. However, the system in place is thorough and sophisticated; the wrongly accused are released unscathed, while the real rule-breakers never get off easy.