<p>what do you know about it? how generous are their scholarships?</p>
<p>Very strong engineering/applied science programs with quite a few graduates going on to earn a PhD. It's a public school, so I'm not sure how generous they are with merit $.</p>
<p>Here's an interesting article about CSM admissions, straight from the horse's mouth.
<a href="http://sponge.mines.edu/search?q=cache:s2YwN-lwopMJ:www.mines.edu/academic/affairs/csm_only/Young_Memo.pdf+institutional+research&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=CSM_frontend&site=default_collection&proxystylesheet=CSM_frontend&oe=UTF-8%5B/url%5D">http://sponge.mines.edu/search?q=cache:s2YwN-lwopMJ:www.mines.edu/academic/affairs/csm_only/Young_Memo.pdf+institutional+research&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=CSM_frontend&site=default_collection&proxystylesheet=CSM_frontend&oe=UTF-8</a></p>