Why is Rose Hulman so easy to get into?

[Anonymous]

My son was considering RH last year. I highly recommend that you join the Parents page on Facebook; once I did that, I knew there was no way my son would fit in there.

[Anonymous]

RH was all-male until maybe 1990s.

[Anonymous]

It is my Alma Mater, I graduated as the second class of 4 year women. the gender disparity is real, but it was not a problem for me. We would say the odds are pretty good but the good are pretty odd. If you could not make it at Rose, you likely transferred to Purdue, which is a good school too, but Rose students found it easier. Name recognition outside of Midwest is still a problem, but getting a job right out of school was easy. The campus is outside of town, but its also very safe. I truly loved the whole college experience there but I understand its not for everyone. If you are not sure you want to do engineering its not for you. What I really liked is that since it is smaller, I could do the extracurriculars I liked. At a larger school I never would have had a chance to do drama, which I really enjoyed but knew I could never compete with a drama major.

[Anonymous]

I'm a Purdue grad who started college shortly after RHIT went coeducational. I mostly chose Purdue based on that.

If I had it to do over again, I would have chosen RHIT. Purdue was just too big for me (and my high school class was 900+, so I was used to large!) and I dealt with the same gender disparity at Purdue, anyway (it turned out to be a non-issue).

[Anonymous]

Niche schools will always have higher acceptance rate because the applicant pool is already self-selecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is interested in small engineering schools where undergrad is the main focus. Rose Hulman tops every list for that. But it accepts something like 70% of applications. Why isn't it more popular?

If a great school is right for your kid, why are you troubled by a high acceptance rate? You should be happy about that.

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Anonymous wrote:I notice that this hasn't been active for a year or so but have a kid who is looking for a mechanical engineering program. he visited his brother at Williams and loved the vibe of small place with engaged students, and our search led us to Rose Hulman. We are on the west coast (but when we were looking at schools for our older son i found this board really helpful so am checking it out again, thank you all), and no one here has heard of Williams or RH, but if the education is first rate and the reputation is strong with employers that seems to be the most important thing. Unfortunately the discussion here devolved into something bitter and unhelpful, but if anyone has anything elucidating to add other than what has been stated already about the seeming disconnect between reputation and admissions (location, self-selection, name recognition, gender disparity - which is indeed a concern for my son), please follow up thanks. we know nothing about RH other than what we find on its web site. Note son visited Trinity which is also small and has engineering but they dont really have specialized degrees (eg mechanical engineering) and it was clear the emphasis is still liberal arts rather than science/engineering. Swat is the same, but i dont think he could get in anyway. So he is looking at Purdue, GA Tech, the usual engineering suspects, but preferring something smaller RH may be a nice fit for him. Thank you.

My DC is looking at smaller schools for CS (and my DH is an engineer). DH has heard of Rose Hulman and says good things about it, but we didn't consider it for my lgbtq child. An acquaintance was strongly considering it for her son last year and had many great things to say about their visit there and interaction with professors etc.

My child's current favorite is Colorado School of Mines. It is bigger than RH, but not huge.

Others that were suggested but I don't have personal knowledge about:

WPI. (I really wanted my DC to look at this one - it sounds great to me. They weren't interested for whatever reason.)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
University of Tulsa

There are a decent amount of west coast students at WPI, about 400 from Wash, Oregon, CA. DS is pretty happy there and extremely engaged. Lots of like minded students.

+1 If you are a quick learner who likes collaboration, the program is unique, difficult, but worth it. Seven weeks per class is no joke and not for everyone. The faculty-run research projects abroad, available to all Juniors, is a huge draw too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son was considering RH last year. I highly recommend that you join the Parents page on Facebook; once I did that, I knew there was no way my son would fit in there.

Interested in the vibe at Rose-Hulman to see if it would be a fit for my kid. How would you describe the school and type of kid that fits in?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I notice that this hasn't been active for a year or so but have a kid who is looking for a mechanical engineering program. he visited his brother at Williams and loved the vibe of small place with engaged students, and our search led us to Rose Hulman. We are on the west coast (but when we were looking at schools for our older son i found this board really helpful so am checking it out again, thank you all), and no one here has heard of Williams or RH, but if the education is first rate and the reputation is strong with employers that seems to be the most important thing. Unfortunately the discussion here devolved into something bitter and unhelpful, but if anyone has anything elucidating to add other than what has been stated already about the seeming disconnect between reputation and admissions (location, self-selection, name recognition, gender disparity - which is indeed a concern for my son), please follow up thanks. we know nothing about RH other than what we find on its web site. Note son visited Trinity which is also small and has engineering but they dont really have specialized degrees (eg mechanical engineering) and it was clear the emphasis is still liberal arts rather than science/engineering. Swat is the same, but i dont think he could get in anyway. So he is looking at Purdue, GA Tech, the usual engineering suspects, but preferring something smaller RH may be a nice fit for him. Thank you.

My DC is looking at smaller schools for CS (and my DH is an engineer). DH has heard of Rose Hulman and says good things about it, but we didn't consider it for my lgbtq child. An acquaintance was strongly considering it for her son last year and had many great things to say about their visit there and interaction with professors etc.

My child's current favorite is Colorado School of Mines. It is bigger than RH, but not huge.

Others that were suggested but I don't have personal knowledge about:

WPI. (I really wanted my DC to look at this one - it sounds great to me. They weren't interested for whatever reason.)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
University of Tulsa

There are a decent amount of west coast students at WPI, about 400 from Wash, Oregon, CA. DS is pretty happy there and extremely engaged. Lots of like minded students.

Can you tell me more about WPI? If you go there for engineering can you swutch to premed? My DD is interested , although still leabs toward big schools for the social aspect.

[Anonymous]

Visited both Case and RH over break. While there are some differences I’d say a kid who fits in at one will fit in at the other.

Even though it was far more rural, RH was more impressive to me personally.

Also realized neither would be a fit for DC but not because they are bad schools.

[Anonymous]

Because most people have never heard of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visited both Case and RH over break. While there are some differences I’d say a kid who fits in at one will fit in at the other.

Even though it was far more rural, RH was more impressive to me personally.

Also realized neither would be a fit for DC but not because they are bad schools.

But this is what I’m asking about. What type of kid fits in? I have a son if that helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RH was all-male until maybe 1990s.

It's still heavily male, but Indiana State right down the road provides plenty of chicks, and they love Ro$e guy$, if you know what I mean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I notice that this hasn't been active for a year or so but have a kid who is looking for a mechanical engineering program. he visited his brother at Williams and loved the vibe of small place with engaged students, and our search led us to Rose Hulman. We are on the west coast (but when we were looking at schools for our older son i found this board really helpful so am checking it out again, thank you all), and no one here has heard of Williams or RH, but if the education is first rate and the reputation is strong with employers that seems to be the most important thing. Unfortunately the discussion here devolved into something bitter and unhelpful, but if anyone has anything elucidating to add other than what has been stated already about the seeming disconnect between reputation and admissions (location, self-selection, name recognition, gender disparity - which is indeed a concern for my son), please follow up thanks. we know nothing about RH other than what we find on its web site. Note son visited Trinity which is also small and has engineering but they dont really have specialized degrees (eg mechanical engineering) and it was clear the emphasis is still liberal arts rather than science/engineering. Swat is the same, but i dont think he could get in anyway. So he is looking at Purdue, GA Tech, the usual engineering suspects, but preferring something smaller RH may be a nice fit for him. Thank you.

My DC is looking at smaller schools for CS (and my DH is an engineer). DH has heard of Rose Hulman and says good things about it, but we didn't consider it for my lgbtq child. An acquaintance was strongly considering it for her son last year and had many great things to say about their visit there and interaction with professors etc.

My child's current favorite is Colorado School of Mines. It is bigger than RH, but not huge.

Others that were suggested but I don't have personal knowledge about:

WPI. (I really wanted my DC to look at this one - it sounds great to me. They weren't interested for whatever reason.)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
University of Tulsa

There are a decent amount of west coast students at WPI, about 400 from Wash, Oregon, CA. DS is pretty happy there and extremely engaged. Lots of like minded students.

Can you tell me more about WPI? If you go there for engineering can you swutch to premed? My DD is interested , although still leabs toward big schools for the social aspect.

At WPI and every other school, there's no major for pre-med -- you just have to take the prerequisites.

But it's particularly easy to switch majors at WPI, compared to other engineering schools.

[Anonymous]

RH is a very very good school for engineering. It's a small school without a flashy name but, if you are in engineering, you know.