ROLLINS COLLEGE J-13

1000 Holt Ave.
Winter Park, FL 32789-4499
Tel: (407)646-2000
Admissions: (407)646-2161
Fax: (407)646-2600
E-mail: admission@rollins.edu
Web Site: http://www.rollins.edu/

Description:

Independent, comprehensive, coed. Awards bachelor's and master's degrees. Founded 1885. Setting: 70-acre suburban campus with easy access to Orlando. Endowment: $208.1 million. Educational spending 2003-04: $7834 per student. Total enrollment: 2,571. Faculty: 229 (179 full-time, 50 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 11:1. 2,598 applied, 59% were admitted. 39% from top 10% of their high school class, 68% from top quarter, 91% from top half. Full-time: 1,759 students, 60% women, 40% men. Students come from 46 states and territories, 43 other countries, 51% from out-of-state, 1% Native American, 8% Hispanic, 5% black, 4% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 3% international, 1% 25 or older, 66% live on campus, 3% transferred in. Retention: 83% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: social sciences and history; visual/performing arts; business/marketing; psychology. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships. Off campus study at American University. Study abroad program.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, early decision, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT or ACT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: very difficult. Application deadlines: 2/15, 11/15 for early decision plan 1, 1/15 for early decision plan 2. Notification: 4/1, 12/15 for early decision plan 1, 2/1 for early decision plan 2.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $40. Comprehensive fee: $36,270 includes full-time tuition ($26,910), mandatory fees ($790), and college room and board ($8570). College room only: $5000.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 122 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 1,250 college housing spaces available; 1,117 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. Options: coed, men-only, women-only housing available. Olin Library with 288,323 books, 86,595 microform titles, 15,749 serials, 5,501 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2003-04: $2.1 million. 195 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Within the metropolitan area of which Orlando is the center, Winter Park is a residential area of great beauty. This area of Florida is popularly known as "The Lake Region." Orange groves, subtropical forest, flowering shrubs and trees are the dominant features of the landscape. Scenic boat trips may be taken through a chain of four lakes. Annual events are the Sidewalk Arts Festival and a Bach festival held on the campus of Rollins College.