RPI, WPI, or Mines?

GeekMom63
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:17:13 +0000

I haven’t been involved in grad school admissions, so I DON’T KNOW, but I’d guess that it’s your work (academic and EC) and your connections that will get you into grad school.

My son didn’t apply to RPI and WPI (because they on Princeton Review’s list of awful teachers and because they’re too big). He was accepted to both Rose Hulman and Mines, and while neither was his favorite, Rose Hulman was way above Mines (which has the huge advantage to him of being close). He preferred RHIT because of the teachers who really care about the students, and because we spoke to a teacher at Mines who said that undergrads aren’t very likely to get research jobs.