Why is Rose Hulman so easy to get into?

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Mike Pence land OP sure great wonderful idea.

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Anonymous wrote:Mike Pence land OP sure great wonderful idea.

Only took 3 pages for some DB to make it political.

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Anonymous wrote:Mike Pence land OP sure great wonderful idea.

Jesus Christ.

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Anonymous wrote:Mike Pence land OP sure great wonderful idea.

So moronic. I vote Dem 100% of the time but this is stupid. Are Harvard and MIT in Mitt Romney land? Is Princeton in Chris Christie land? UVA, W&M and VT in Youngkin land?

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Anonymous wrote:Small school, skewed gender ratio, lackluster location. But the education is phenomenal.

There are quite a few small engineering/STEM schools that fit a similar profile. High acceptance rates but also very high ACT/SAT midranges, which means they aren't taking just anyone. The above poster who mentioned self-selection is correct.

This list of CS safety schools mentions some of the schools I'm talking about (as well as Rose). The most interesting one was Colorado School of Mines. I didn't realize that even that school accepts nearly 60% of applicants. I expected it to be a lot lower.

https://collegejaguar.com/the-9-best-safety-schools-for-computer-science/

Assuming the data in this article is legit (I've never heard of the website, but the numbers seem pretty spot on for the couple of schools on the list I'm familiar with) I think it shows that kids who don't have at least above-average stats avoid engineering, CS and other STEM fields.

Even the total random-ass backwoods schools on the list (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology? WTF is that?) with acceptance rates over 95% have pretty high SAT and ACT ranges. That means people with low/average scores simply aren't applying.

Put it another way, Rose Hulman might have over a 75% acceptance rate, but if you applied there with an 1,050/22, I don't think your chances are all that much better than if you were shooting for Georgia Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mike Pence land OP sure great wonderful idea.

So moronic. I vote Dem 100% of the time but this is stupid. Are Harvard and MIT in Mitt Romney land? Is Princeton in Chris Christie land? UVA, W&M and VT in Youngkin land?

Hear, hear.

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Anonymous wrote:Dudes worried about the gender ratio at RHIT should keep in mind that Indiana State is just a few miles down the road, and those second-tier state school chicks love Rose dudes (and their future money!). Easy to smash!

Hey, it is 2022.

Any chance you can not refer to young women enrolled in college as, “chicks” who can be lured into a relationship based upon the male’s future earning potential. That is sexist on so many levels. And also quite dated.

Jesus Christ.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dudes worried about the gender ratio at RHIT should keep in mind that Indiana State is just a few miles down the road, and those second-tier state school chicks love Rose dudes (and their future money!). Easy to smash!

Hey, it is 2022.

Any chance you can not refer to young women enrolled in college as, “chicks” who can be lured into a relationship based upon the male’s future earning potential. That is sexist on so many levels. And also quite dated.

Chicks on TikTok disagree with you.

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Anonymous wrote:Small school, skewed gender ratio, lackluster location. But the education is phenomenal.

There are quite a few small engineering/STEM schools that fit a similar profile. High acceptance rates but also very high ACT/SAT midranges, which means they aren't taking just anyone. The above poster who mentioned self-selection is correct.

This list of CS safety schools mentions some of the schools I'm talking about (as well as Rose). The most interesting one was Colorado School of Mines. I didn't realize that even that school accepts nearly 60% of applicants. I expected it to be a lot lower.

https://collegejaguar.com/the-9-best-safety-schools-for-computer-science/

Good list. Purdue is a glaring error though. Their CS program is direct admit and is very difficult to get into. Not a safety at all.

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It's very expensive, and Purdue is a great engineering school. If you're in-state in Indiana and want to study engineering, why not head to Purdue, which is much cheaper (and also cheaper for out-of-state students by a wide margin, too).

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Anonymous wrote:It's very expensive, and Purdue is a great engineering school. If you're in-state in Indiana and want to study engineering, why not head to Purdue, which is much cheaper (and also cheaper for out-of-state students by a wide margin, too).

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Small school, skewed gender ratio, lackluster location. But the education is phenomenal.

There are quite a few small engineering/STEM schools that fit a similar profile. High acceptance rates but also very high ACT/SAT midranges, which means they aren't taking just anyone. The above poster who mentioned self-selection is correct.

This list of CS safety schools mentions some of the schools I'm talking about (as well as Rose). The most interesting one was Colorado School of Mines. I didn't realize that even that school accepts nearly 60% of applicants. I expected it to be a lot lower.

https://collegejaguar.com/the-9-best-safety-schools-for-computer-science/

Good list. Purdue is a glaring error though. Their CS program is direct admit and is very difficult to get into. Not a safety at all.

I just saw the list
Purdue is a safety for CS/Engineering?? LOL

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it’s amazing to me that just because a college admits more than it rejects the DCUM assumption is that there is something fatally wrong with it.

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For 2022, they accepted 77% applicants but only 19% of them enrolled.

For comparison, another engineering heavy college MI accepted only 4.7% but 77% of them enrolled.

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Anonymous wrote:it’s amazing to me that just because a college admits more than it rejects the DCUM assumption is that there is something fatally wrong with it.

If a college is good, more people would want to attend. That's the only reason why acceptance rate and yield rate are relevant.