<p>I think the accepantance rate is lower than 70% based on last year. This is really not a good number, the students that apply have high GPAs and good test scores. The number to look at is avg GPA and avg test scores and compare that to other schools. You can find this number in college comparison sites and books.</p>
<p>When you comparing schools make sure you look at the Freshman Retention rate AND the number of graduates that stick with the engineering program and graduate. Rose actually has the highest % along with Olin and Harvey Mudd. A lot of Engineering Departments in the top schools are at 30-35%. Rose is around 85%. This is the number you really want to look at. </p>
<p>One additional fact is my D is graduating in 4 years as do most Rose students. That is a savings of 1 year’s tution in some of the other schools my daughter looked at. At Rose you will get into the classes you need for graduation. This is not always the story at other larger top schools.</p>
<p>Cheezwhiz is absolutely right! I figure that the people who actually know about Rose-Hulman are usually top students and so they are the ones applying to the school. The freshman GPAs and ACT scores reflect this. So even though you have the schools that have their 19% acceptance rate or lower, that shouldn’t make anyone want to rule out Rose-Hulman. It is a school in its own category (both literally and figuratively). This is also what attracted me to Rose.</p>
<p>Oh, so cheezwhiz, I spent the night at the school Thursday (I was there all day) and then spent some of Friday there… now I REALLY want to go to the school. It definitely speaks for itself. Please Rose Class of 2014 work out…</p>
<p>Rose’s acceptance rate for the Fall of 2009 entering class was 70.2% (71.8% for young ladeis!) and the rentention rate for the students entering in the Fall of 2008 was 88.5%.</p>
<p>There are on pages 6 and 5, respectively, of the most recent Common Data Set:</p>