Rose Hulman 2014 -who did you turn down

roderick
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:11:05 +0000

dory, thanks for the input. RH seems like a great choice. I understood the benefit of the smaller school since my older daughter is at an LAC (english psych education) , but I did not know there were science-tech oriented smaller schools out there, too. My son seems more oriented to science-tech but has said that he likes the smaller school. It seems that with the difficulty of an engineering program, the more supportive can only be better. The ‘weeding out’ model that I have read about at some places does not seem to be consistent with solving the problem of getting the student through the curriculum. After all, is this a game of attrition or aren’t we trying to educate the students for the money spent?

RH’s idea of collaborative and supportive is actually quite consistent with the real world model of project teams all for one goal.

In the spirit of better understanding, I’d like someone to make the case for the bigger school for science-tech-engineering for UG. If it is employer contacts upon graduation, it looks like RH has this benefit, too, from what I have read.

My wife did wonder, however, if there might be more employers (a more varied set of employers) at a bigger school upon graduation than at RH just because there are so many more students at a bigger school. Can someone address this question?

dory, couple of questions:

does your son know what he wants to major in?

And, I notice that LACs were on his list of cross-offs. LACs are small and would have the learning/mentoring cachet of an RH, so I was curious how it is that you crossed them off. After all, LACs have sciences, too.