Nicholas Yanchisin to Attend RIT

2013 Feb 1

Nicholas Yanchisin, son of Monique and John Yanchisin of Cicero, N.Y., has enrolled for fall 2013 admission at Rochester Institute of Technology. Nicholas is in the Mechanical Engineering - ME program in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering and is a 2013 graduate of Cicero-North Syracuse High School. Nicholas has been awarded an RIT Presidential Scholarship.

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 nearly 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 more than two 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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