08-09 Acceptances!

<p>I got accepted being an international, i guess rose is not that famous around the wrold :P
It is an amazing school but the only thing worries me is money, so expensive and i have no idea if it worths it</p>

<p>I got accepted into RHIT. I just want to know how the engineering department is and how the students find the teaching and the atmosphere. Please give me some details. I have no idea.
Thanks</p>

<p>Chi62, congratulations on getting accepted! I'm now a sophomore mechanical engineering major, and I love the atmosphere at Rose. We are known for our outstanding engineering programs, including being ranked the #1 engineering school that doesn't have a PhD program for 10 straight years by US News and World report. One of the main reasons I chose Rose is the size; I like knowing most of the people in my classes, having all of my professors know my name, and being able to walk everywhere. Also you feel like you can approach anyone and talk to them, whether it be a professor or someone in one of your classes, even our president loves to talk to the students. From my experience, the professors here great because they are all here because they like to teach, not to do research or write papers. If you can, I'd recommend coming for a campus visit or overnight stay, so you can see the campus for yourself.</p>

<p>I'm a high school senior trying to look at my options. All of the other schools I applied to are large schools (Illinois, Purdue, USC, UCLA, UCSD, Penn State, Iowa). I'm worried that if I come to RHIT the benefits of a small school will not make up for the loss of big athletic competitions and the options of a larger school. RHIT has also contacted me to run track for them.</p>

<p>So students at RHIT now, please answer these questions:</p>

<p>Those of you on athletic teams, how do you keep up with your studies?
Are there many options of things to do at night and on the weekends, or does pretty much everyone do the same thing?
Are there things to do OTHER than frat parties?
Do people go to sporting events? Or not so much?
If I choose to come but not run (my knees are in terrible pain right now), will there be other opportunities like IM sports or a rec center to stay physically fit?
Are there places to hang out or do work outside, or is it a primarily indoor campus?</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

<p>otl27, I'm a sophomore at Rose, and although I don't play any sports, I'll try to answer your questions. I do work as a videographer for the football team, so I go to all the practices and travel with the team to away games. Keeping up with academics is certainly doable. The coaches here all realize that classes are your primary responsibilities, so practices never interfere with classes. Rose is a member of the Heartland Athletic Conference, and the longest drive for us is about 5 hours, so the football team never needs to stay more than one night. That said, Rose is still competitive in athletics; our soccer team won the conference this year and the football team finished 7-3. Students do come to the games, often to cheer on their friends. The football stands were pretty much full every home game this year.</p>

<p>As far as things to do on campus, Rose was recently ranked one of the top 20 US colleges for "more to do on campus" by the Princeton Review. We have lots of events on the weekends here, everything from comedians to Mythbusters to concerts and drama club shows. We also have a game room with big screen TVs, pool, ping pong, etc.</p>

<p>We do have an active IM program here, with all the major sports (football, basketball, soccer, etc) as well things like racquetball, cross county, tennis, and several others. The Sports and Recreation Center is also available for student use with several courts that can be used for basketball, indoor soccer, tennis, or volleyball, as well as an indoor track, weight room, and racquetball courts.</p>

<p>The weather in Terre Haute limits how much we can do outside, but there are picnic tables and benches around campus. Speed Lawn is in the middle of campus and gets a lot of use for pickup games of ultimate frisbee or football or whatever. We also have two outdoor basketball courts, outdoor tennis courts, and an outdoor track. At the back of campus is the Heritage Trail which is great for running, rollerblading, or biking.</p>

<p>I hope this answers your questions.</p>

<p>otl27 if you'd like I can put you in touch with people who participate in track/cc.</p>

<p>Nick's answers were pretty thorough. I would add that if you want to do engineering and play a sport, unless your goal is to do that sport professionally upon graduation, it is, in my opinion, to your benefit to come to Rose vs. a bigger D-1 school. Here's why:</p>

<p>First of all at D-1 schools they have scholarship athletes. So unless you're good enough to earn an athletic scholarship at one of those schools, you're going to have a much harder time finding a place for yourself in their program.</p>

<p>Say you are good enough. Go ahead and look at any D-1 school's roster for pretty much any sport. Count the engineering majors and see what percent of the whole they are. I can guarantee it's a very, very small percent. The reason being that engineering takes a lot of time and natural smarts. Most student athletes at the D-1 level, especially those on athletic scholarships, have majors like communications, sports management, general studies, public affairs, etc...not that there's anything wrong with those majors, but no one can tell you with a straight face that those majors compare to the rigor of an engineering degree.</p>

<p>Whereas what you have at Rose are rosters full of people pursuing degrees in engineering, math, and science and for all of them academics are the primary focus. What I always say is, at Rose it's a level playing field as far as spare time and ability to commit to extracurriculars like sports and clubs because everyone here's taking roughly the same courseload as you, everyone's doing labs, a lot of homework, hard classes every quarter, all of that. What it comes down to is you're not disadvantaged if you want to come to Rose to study engineering AND play a sport like you would be at a bigger school where your teammates, the people you're competing with for the right to participate in intercollegiate events, are going to be people who aren't taking heavy courseloads year round and all that jazz.</p>

<p>These are all generalizations. There are, just like for all generalizations, exceptions. But they hold mostly true.</p>

<p>That's my opinion for what it's worth. Like I said, feel free to PM me or email me at <a href="mailto:nicholas.a.kirkland1@us.army.mil">nicholas.a.kirkland1@us.army.mil</a> with any further questions you might have or if you'd like to talk to some runners.</p>

<p>hey, current Rose students, thank you so much for helping us.
even though i wen to the Captapult and stayed there for 3 weeks, but i still have concerns about Rose.
Do you have any international programs? like going a broad for a year in other insitutions? even though i'm an internatioal student but i really do want to go somewhere during my college life
And how good teaching at Rose really is? I was taught by some professors but it ended up i didn't really one of them, and he was the profressor for the department i want to major in.
And what are the chances for students to get a job right after graduation or going to grad schools? i heard a lot numbers about it, like the % and the wages, but i just really want to know the real case. are the students mostly hired by companies around Rose, like in the mid-North or the compaies from east and west coasts love Rose students too? do people have decent shots getting into top grad schools if they are willing to work hard in college?
Thanks a lot</p>

<p>victoria, yes.</p>

<p>Yes, we have international programs. I personally know several people who have done study abroad programs in Germany and Japan.</p>

<p>The teaching is great here, especially in comparison to most other undergraduate engineering programs. The reason is that the emphasis here is on teaching undergraduates, not research. At many schools the professors are there based on their ability to do research, write papers, get grants, etc..that's their primary job function and they just teach on the side because they have to. Here all the professors come in knowing that their job first and foremost is to teach. The expectation from day 1 is that professors spend the majority of their time teaching/preparing for classes. They're available pretty much M-F 9-5 unless they're in class, which is very nice. I could go on, but yeah.</p>

<p>95% of our students have jobs or grad schools lined up when they walk across the stage at graduation and get their diploma. 99% of our graduates have jobs/grad schools within 6 months of getting their diploma. That's the reality. We have 3 career fairs per year. In recent years at each of those career fairs we've had 500-600 recruiters. That's more than 1 recruiter per graduating senior (~450 graduating seniors I think). Now, don't get me wrong, you don't come to Rose, just go to class, and some point during your senior year you get an email from Career Services telling you you've gotten a job offer at a prestigious engineering company making 60K a year. You have to work for it, go out, get experience, be successful in and out of the classroom, do well in your interviews, go to career fairs all that stuff in order to get that job. But R-H students work hard enough in the classroom that the whole job search thing is just another assignment that 95% of our graduates do with success.</p>

<p>As far as geographic diversity of employers, it's similar to our student body in that many of them come from the midwest, but it's by no means an overwhelming majority. We have companies that recruit Rose students to work from coast to coast and overseas.</p>

<p>Email <a href="mailto:jared.goulding@rose-hulman.edu">jared.goulding@rose-hulman.edu</a> and he can mail you a list of graduate schools our graduates have recently gone on to. It's pretty extensive and includes many programs.</p>

<p>Applied 11/30.
Accepted 12/15.
Woot!</p>

<p>nic767, thank you so so much. I'm so excited to know that Rose have international programs.
I'm just a little worried about since Rose is so small that i will not be able to have some of the college experience i would if i were at a research university, like residential college life, internship oppertunities, and other fun stuff.</p>

<p>and there is another thing i'm always curious
how good is Rose compared to those big universities? I know Rose is not ranked that way but how good exactly is Rose when it's compared to like MIT, Princeton and those universities? Are most of the students at Rose applied to those schools but didn't get in and ended up at Rose? using Rose as safety?</p>

<p>I'm applying to "those" universities and used RHIT as a safety, but I would also be very happy there, so I don't really think of it as a safety.</p>

<p>victoria I think you'll actually find more opportunities to enjoy college life at Rose than you would at a bigger school. At a bigger school you would be 1/10 000 in the freshman class. At Rose you would be 1/500. I've talked before about the dorm life here at Rose, it really is second to none. The open door policy and sophomore adviser program made living on a freshman floor one of the best experiences in my life. Rose is small enough that you don't know everyone, but you know a lot of people and you'll get to know th people on your floor very well. It really is like a family.</p>

<p>90% of our students do research or an internship at some point during their undergrad. 75% do more than one. Not going to miss out on that if you don't want to.</p>

<p>To add to what nic767 said, a big reason difference between a primarily undergraduate school and the big research schools is that the facilities at Rose and other undergraduate schools are dedicated to the undergraduate programs. From freshman year here you will have the best professors and use the lab facilities, they're not reserved for graduate students. A lot of the reputation at the bigger schools comes from the graduate programs, whereas all of our reputation comes from the undergraduate programs.</p>

<p>Yup. It makes sense to me to do your undergrad at a place where the focus is on you. Then, if you want to continue your education with a master's/PhD, go to one of those research universities where that's their specialty.</p>

<p>thanks guys. You helped a lot.
btw, do most of the students have cars? is it really unconvient to go around without a car?</p>

<p>I could have went to Operation Catapult but I didn't have the money :(
I was invited, I wish I had gone now.</p>

<p>Hi I got the email regarding the graduate list and it looks good. They have gone to universities all over and very good ones too. That said, can I know where did undergrads go last year. you guys must know. Its not that I want a list or sometihing. Just some info as to where they went last year.</p>

<p>Victoria, its nice to see you busy here. are you planning to buy a car? I am happy to notice one thing here. Students at Rose are caring and are always willing to help with info. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Victoria, I would guess about half of the students have cars on campus. Parking is free as long as you register to get a parking sticker. I didn't have a car for part of my freshman year, and it's not a problem. There are always people going to Walmart or to the bank or whatever, and you can always get a ride. For dinner on the weekends our floor always went out to eat together and carpooled. I have a car mostly so I can drive home for breaks, but if you fly home, you can always find a ride to the airport.</p>

<p>Fromthesouth, I'm so sorry you couldn't make it to Catapult. I was concerned at first too, it really was expensive. but it was soo worth it, it was definitely one of my best summer.</p>

<p>I got that list too,and wondering why only 20% people go to grad schools. But they defiinitely go to top schools :)</p>

<p>Chi62, idk abou the car...i'll have to make some money first :P</p>

<p>I remembered there was no meals at the Union on weekends when i was at Catapult, do they have meals when schools are in session?</p>