Inaugural Rose forum post

y2kwizard
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:43:55 +0000

Well, don’t let any presuppositions mar her view of Rose when she visits…make sure that she takes the school for what it is, not what she thinks it will be or what some random guy on the Internet said it would be like. Pretty much everyone I’ve talked to who has gone to Rose has loved it, and it’s because the community is EXTREMELY tight-knit, very like-minded, and is much more team-oriented than competition-oriented.

It’s a challenging place with an emphasis on engineering, but you can also take minors in a range of subjects. Even if it doesn’t have that “college feel,” (and I’m SUCH a bad judge about whether it has one or not…don’t take my word for it) the positives GREATLY outweigh the negatives for me.

One final word: I’d encourage her to email some girls currently attending Rose to get their take on it. I’m a guy, and my view of the place was probably skewed by my guy-ness.