Rose Hulman 2014 -who did you turn down

hollyanne
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:38:05 +0000

Dory, thank you so much. My son is taking one last look at RIT today and then will make his choice. (How many times have I said this–today we will make a decision!!) I think it will probably be Rose.

Roderick-I have some experience with a larger school. My older daughter is a junior at BYU-30,000 students.

Her experience with research has been amazing. She is interested in acoustical physics. Her freshman year she literally knocked on doors of physics professors and asked if they had any research work she could be a part of. She got a job–but spent most of her time being a “gopher”. She was the only undrgrad and did what ever was asked of her cheerfully. One day while building some bookcases for her “research project” a professor came to her and said he liked her attitude and thought it was time she did more than build bookcases. He gave her her own research project and now, two years later, she presented her research at the Acoustical Sociey of Americas conference last week in Baltimore.

She has two papers set to be published in scientific journals. She is 20 years old.

The career fairs at BYU attract almost 300 companies. She has had much interest with companies that want to bring her out . She is not interested at this point as she wants to do grad school.

This is not a totally unique situation. Her roommate is in biomedical engineering and also working on a project that will be published next year.

So big is not necessarily bad–at least not in our experience.