RPI's flavor

CowtownSlim
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:27:42 +0000

Thank you sandpit! Maybe they should hire you. We went on the tour and attended the info session and could really get no sense of what makes the place special other than they have a lot of neat buildings and research centers. The admissions counselor giving the talk spent an inordinate amount of time talking about procedural issues (such as how to write a good essay), and couldn’t answer the question I submitted to this forum except to say that the kids do independent projects outside of class. The tour guide was similarly baffled, though she is in the arts program. My son really liked WPI, since their website, info session, tour guide and student interviewers all emphasized the collaborative aspect of the school, convincing me, anyway, that the project-based thing is more than a marketing approach. Are your kids happier than the average disgruntled student reviewers on other websites? Maybe those reviews are lagging behing current reality, but this idea of imbedding a hands-on approach in the labs and emphasizing coop is hard to find in these reviews or even in the RPI site itself.