<p>Son just heard yesterday that he was accepted to Rose-Hulman. He's thrilled - he had a great time at Operation Catapult this summer.</p>
<p>That's great! When did he apply? We are still waiting on S1's letter from them.</p>
<p>His school took a long time to get the transcript out (hurricane caused delays in printing the school profile), but I think it was finally received at R-H by October 15th. Acceptance letter was postmarked November 4th. It seems to take 3 weeks overall. Good luck!</p>
<p>if your grades are anywhere close to where they need to be ...you will get in so don't worry... but don't count on much as far as aid to pay for this college and please go check out the lack of campus life!!! There is none!!! college should also be an experience but sadly every kid I know that has went to Rose has left within the first year. Son got 27,000 from them but is thrilled he picked purdue... his friends that went there are already trying to get out but purdue will not take them now sad!</p>
<p>^
Just wondering what type of campus life is "missing" from Rose-Hulman?
Just curious, since this is one my son is thinking of applying to (Thanksgiving weekend is college app time)</p>
<p>People coming frrom small towns and schools may not miss something they have never had.</p>
<p>If your son received $27,000 from RH, how can you possibly say financial aid is poor?</p>
<p>collegepoor, I'm sorry you have such a negative opinion of Rose. I'm sorry that people you know have not been successful here. You are certainly entitled to your own opinions, but I don't appreciate you making broad generalizations based on such limited experience (e.g. you have no experience as a Rose-Hulman student).</p>
<p>As someone who's been a student here for 2+ years I think I can speak from a little more experience. Life at Rose is like many other things; you're going to get out of it only what you put into it. You can certainly go here and sit in your room and play computer games all night and never get out and meet people if that is your prerogative. Rose has a great program, the Sophomore adviser program, that works to prevent such a thing from happening. Every freshman floor in the dorms has two sophomore's who live there and their sole function is to make sure their freshmen get well-adjusted to college life and have some fun while they're at it. They're not RA's, each floor has one of those too, but the RA's are more of an official job. The SA's job is to be your big brother/sister in the Rose family, whereas the RA is more of a parent-type figure (in some respects).</p>
<p>I strongly disagree with collegepoor's assertion that campus life is much worse here. I say it's 10x better than at a big state school because of the closeness of the community. I've been to a few bigger schools for overnight trips and they can't compare to the Rose family. Life in the dorms is active and open. Nobody bothers locking their doors, or really even closing them at all when they're in their room and that makes a huge difference in the openness of the community. It's true engineers are not known for being the most extroverted people, but you'd have trouble believing that if you came to a dorm at Rose and spent a night there besides Sunday.</p>
<p>If what you're looking for is an Animal House-like experience of college, it's true you won't get that at Rose. It's true that we're 80% male; that's simply the demographics of engineering wherever you go. But that doesn't mean we don't have parties here just like any other college. The difference is that we're all students of engineering or science, so we have to get our work done and then party, but there is a big party pretty much every weekend at one fraternity or another.</p>
<p>If you have any more specific questions you'd like to ask of someone who can actually speak about the Rose-Hulman experience, I'd be happy to help you.</p>
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<p>Just thought I'd report a few statistics from the Common Data Sets of both Rose-Hulman and Purdue:</p>
<p>4-year graduation rate: RHIT 72.8%, Purdue 36.5%
6-year graduation rate: RHIT 83.2%, Purdue 69.1%</p>
<p>You questioned how many freshmen stay at RHIT? According to the CDS, 91.2% of freshmen stay. (Purdue's rate is 85%). Also, Purdue has a 61.8% acceptance rate for transfer applications. I'd say that if a student has decent grades, they shouldn't have any problem transferring to Purdue, if they chose.</p>
<p>I'm glad you and your son are happy at Purdue, but I don't see any reason why you should be tearing down RHIT.</p>
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<p>To add to what nic767 said, The Princeton Review recently ranked Rose-Hulman #12 in the nation in the category "More to do on campus" in their 2009 "Best 368 Colleges" rankings. This is because Rose does a great job of bringing events here for us to do, and all of the events are free for students. We've had comedians including The Second City from Chicago, music and performing arts groups, and even Mythbusters, and CSI live, to name a few.</p>
<p>As for students leaving after the first year, that is certainly the exception at Rose. 95% of freshman return sophomore year and well over 80% graduate, which is very impressive considering the national average for engineering students is less that 60%. In my opinion, the high retention rates are due in large part to the SA program and community atmosphere that nic767 mentioned; it's why I chose Rose-Hulman and why I'm so happy here now.</p>
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<p>CollegePoor, Please don't make statements like that if you don't have the facts, my goodness you don't even have a student there.</p>
<p>My daughter goes there and not one of her friends... which is many, have ever said they would like to leave Rose!!!. I double checked with her. She laughed and said everyone loves it there. </p>
<p>She said there are many things to do, she is active in a Sorority, President of one of the 100 clubs on campus, and active in a IM sport. She tells me every week of the things she does and says every week this school is amazing. She is a Soph by the way.</p>
<p>With that said if anyone has any questions talk to a student there and go visit. Yes, Terre Haute may not be the most active place but most of the social life is on campus and the students really are close and do things together. This is not a suitcase college, my daughter never comes home only on the breaks but never on the week-end. If there was no social activity people would go home on the week-ends.</p>
<p>Talk to the students and then make your decisions!!! Rose is a great school no doubts about that, academically and social. </p>
<p>One comment, if you are looking for a party every night then Rose is not for you..it is an engineering school!!!</p>
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<p>i got accepted to RHIT!
but i hope i will get full scholarship because then my parents won't let me go there. :[</p>
<p>Congratulations on being accepted metalhunter! </p>
<p>As far as scholarships, I'd encourage you to apply for third party scholarships at sites like FastWeb. Every little bit helps and even if you don't get a full ride, you might be able to make up the difference with outside scholarships.</p>
<p>YAY! I'm in! Super excited!!!</p>
<p>was he in the first session or the second?
I was in the first :P</p>
<p>I guess you mean me, since I was the only other person to mention Catapult! My son went to the second session where he had a great time despite having to play volleyball - the trebuchet made up for that.</p>
<p>Applied 11/20 and was accepted 11/29. (My transcripts were sent early in November.) One of the fastest colleges I have ever seen with a really organized and helpful admissions department. If you need to check if your transcripts are in you can call their 800 number and someone will let you know within ten seconds. If you haven't visited this school, you really need to in order to understand how great it is!</p>
<p>this all sounds great
But did you apply ED or EA and your application was just close to the deadline?
Son applied a week ago. Transcrips will be sent this week. SAT scores were sent several weeks ago. But he is applying RD so my bet his acceptance/rejection will not be so timely.</p>
<p>Congrats to each of you whose first choice was RHIT for getting into your dream school.</p>
<p>Son's first choices are MIT and Caltech, but they are SO selective (about 10% of applicants get in) that despite being a decent candidate, they are still a stretch. RHIT is his first choice out of the other tech schools he has applied to (RPI, WPI and NMT) that would be more realistically within his reach.</p>
<p>Sounds like a great place - RHIT! If he gets in, we'll be visiting.</p>
<p>RHIT is a rolling decision school so decisions are made as soon as the application is complete.</p>
<p>Congratulations to dbt124, metalhunter, and modulation, and good luck to #theorymom's son!</p>
<p>I guess I knew that, but too many applications to keep track of. I guess we will know pretty soon then! Thanks for the luck</p>
<p>My D got accepted about three weeks and we just got back today from an overnight visit and she liked it but not her first choice.</p>