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

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.

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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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

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?