Rose Hulman 2014 -who did you turn down

roderick
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:32:59 +0000

thanks for the input on RPI since this might be a cross-app peer college of RH. So it is good to get a sense of how it contrasts with RH.

also, I understand the sense in which you said that RPI might want to aspire to be a ‘minny MIT’, but interestingly, the RH rep at a recent college fair told me that ‘we like to think of ourselves as the MIT of the midwest’ in response to a quote that I had posed to him, to wit, ‘I have heard people say that RH is a mini or scaled down version of UIUC (engineering)’.

I was throwing this out as a complement since uiuc’s dept is very well regarded and the biggest complaint for UIUC’s engineering dept is it’s bigness and less than stellar support for UGs. So if one were all gung ho for UIUC but just did not like the cavernous halls and the TAs, it seems that RH might a good candidate for you.

The rep , a recent 09 grad from RH, was bubbling with enthusiasm about RH, and he was obviously saying the MIT bit in a proud manner , attempting to say that RH contains the good cachet of MIT (MIT is pretty synonymous with ‘the best’ in the tech/science area of higher ed.) He was not making a comment on the grad/research/admin part of MIT.

At the risk of adding even more apps to compete with my son next yr, in the spirit of fuller disclosure and info that is the hallmark of CC: I have to comment on the rep from the college fair. In addition to the enthusiasm about RH, he was also very happily working at a very nice job in dt chicago. That is one of RH’s selling points, from what I am gathering, job prospects and career support, and this guy really walked the talk - vs some professional salesman, no disrespect meant to the august people of admissions. :)