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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t get the PPs who are fixated on trashing the school? Maybe they resent the connection the school has to high tech or something. Idk. Weirdly aggressive posters, in any event.

In any event, it’s a solid school with a very strong pipeline to high tech and strong STEM offerings. The campus itself is pretty enough but the area around it is pretty boring and tedious. Housing nearby is very expensive. It isn’t a party school in part because there really isn’t any place to party, for better or worse. It’s become a lot more competitive in recent years so while it offers merit aid, the packages are smaller. It’s a Catholic school and there is a religious presence on campus.

[b]One specific note if applicable: it has an excellent track record for Latino graduates in STEM. It has many years of taking in bright Latino first-gen students and placing them well in STEM graduate school.[/b] The school recruits specifically for this cohort and has a record of success in this that far exceeds most other STEM programs, and they also pushed this initiative long before diversity became a buzzword. So, if your child is a first-gen Latino interested in STEM, it would be a welcoming place. [/quote]
I did not know this but find it very uplifting. I shouldn’t be surprised because it falls in line with the Jesuit mission to educate. Francisco Jimenez, who wrote “The Circuit,” was educated there and is a professor emeritus.[/quote]

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