alt Hacker NewsUofR physic grad that also worked at the LLE here. Agree Rochester schools are underrated (although admittedly a little biased).
At least in the sciences you have access to lots of opportunities you don’t have at bigger name schools.
They set me up in life in a way that I don’t think would have happened elsewhere.
I had a great time at UR in the early 90’s because they had the most computing hardware per interested student in the country. I was able to relatively quickly work my way up to access to pretty much any system the school owned that I wanted, including the Cray at the LLE.