<p>My son has been admitted to cal poly (mechanical engineering) and Rose Hulman and loves both. He wants to specialize in automotive engineering. Any thoughts about which might be a better choice? Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi
Did you get any other replys to your post…my son now also has the same decision. Strong interest in Automotive…must will select ME major at both. Has shadowed at both.</p>
<p>CPSLO will likely take longer to graduate from which may not be all that bad if one can go at a slower pace and have less stress and more time to do research, internships, or be involved in the many projects.</p>
<p>My sense is that RHIT there is a closer relationship w/ the profs and student are in smaller classes all the way around, major core, electives, other GE req’s. </p>
<p>CPSLO the GE reqs can be very large lecture hall formats…ie history, humanities, soc sciences.</p>
<p>The college life experience will be very different. RHIT is a compus bound band of brothers who are like family. CPSLO it seems is a more typical college experience with thousand more students of other majors whose weekends start on Wednesday or Thursdays. At cpslo Unless the student bands together with study buddies and lives in an engineering dorm for at least the first 2-3 years it will take a pretty mature self disciplined studious student to really stay focused and not give in to all the distractions.
The entering freshman class size at cpslo is the size of the whole student body at RHIT.</p>
<p>The reputation of CPSLO is much stronger in the Western states, where as RHIT is mostly recognized in the MW in terms of internships and recruiting. SLO has more clubs competitions etc…but only for those good students who even have the time to participate.
Let me know if you have other information…the tuition is a big difference of you are OS yet RHIT can offer fairly nice scholarships</p>