<p>I will preface this by saying I am a Rose-Hulman student (just started as a freshmen), so if you feel that is important - there it is. I will say that I just started here, and these comments I would have said during my college search a year ago.</p>
<p>Collegehelp, what are are you basing that on? For undergraduate academics, I think that Rose-Hulman is at the top of that list, at least above RIT and WPI - IMO the only one you could argue as being above RHIT would be RPI.</p>
<p>But aside from that, I think Ricos comparision of RPI and RHIT is invalid. Of course a school with a graduate program will have a larger endowment. Rose-Hulman is not a research school - it has research opportunities, but it is focused on educating undergraduates.</p>
<p>Also, that comparision of SATs is misleading. Look at ACT comparisions (data retreived from princetonreview.com)…RPI ACT mid-50%: 25-29, RHIT: 27-31. Although I don’t think a school should be judged by its students’ test scores, since Rico brought it up I figured I would point it out.</p>
<p>In general, both RPI and RHIT are great schools, and you shouldn’t select one over the other soley on academics. Individual fit will probably end up making more of a difference within the top-end institutions than any academic differences.</p>