Amanda Piccarreto to Attend RIT

2013 Sep 12

Amanda Piccarreto, daughter of Christine Pelliccia and Loren Piccarreto of Rochester, N.Y., has enrolled for Fall Semester, 2013 admission at Rochester Institute of Technology. Amanda is in the Nutrition Management - BS program in RIT's College of Health Sciences and Technology and is a 2001 graduate of Greece Odyssey. Amanda has been awarded an RIT Trustee Scholarship and Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship. She is a transfer student from Monroe Community College. Amanda served as Vice President of Honors in Action for the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society during the year prior to starting at RIT.

Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts. In addition, the university offers unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT enrolls 18,000 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, and its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.

For three decades, U.S. News & World Report has ranked RIT among the nation's leading comprehensive universities. RIT is featured in The Princeton Review's 2013 edition of The Best 377 Colleges as well as its Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013 names RIT as a "Best Buy," and The Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes RIT among the "Great Colleges to Work For 2012."

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