Some thoughts on RHIT… some good, some bad for the OP. First, it is a great school, ranked #1 among schools that don’t offer PhDs for almost all engineering disciplines. The school focuses on undergraduate education rather than research, and the professors are very engaged with the students. They cap class sizes at 30 students, compared to a couple hundred at large public universities. They are very generous with merit aid (they offered my a package equal to half the tuition).
Now the bad news… it is in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. It is not even in Terre Haute; it is five miles outside town on Rt 40. As my son framed it, “Rose would be my top choice if it were not in the middle of nowhere.” The student population is heavily skewed towards men (I think only 20-30% are women).
Rose has a summer STEM program where you live on campus for 12 days and do a project called Catapult. It is a great way to learn about the school and see what it has to offer. If interested, contact them right away as the deadline is soon, if it has not already passed.