Why do students choose to attend Rose-Hulman?

roderick
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:27:13 +0000

I had this question, and jared, you offered a start of an answer, but I dont think you got to the crux of why someone would pick RH.

Are you assuming that IF someone were interested in being a …

engineer
scientist?

[what else]

then your 1, 2 reasons are reasons to attend?

My jr HS son likes the sciences and math and is particularly interested in physics, math, econ, and maybe engineering, maybe comp sci (he’s taking ap comp next yr). But he also likes English and has doen equally well in that area (vs ‘suffering thru it’ since he is a ‘numbers guy’).

He also said that he likes a small academically serious school.

IF someone did not know for sure that he or she wanted to be an engineer - if that is the only thing one becomes post RH - is this one reason to not give RH a second look? That is, ‘undecideds’ need not apply here?

also, RH admissions: Is a student who likes and is good at english (reading and writing) have an opportunity to stretch this part of his brain at RH?

Or might this be a reason to not choose RH (not enough of the ‘soft’ subjects required to grad and given as opps to take IF that is what one wants) ?