<p>Their main hip hop dance team
Kaba Modern has like 30 members (with try outs)
and won 3rd place for MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew season 1. They also often win other national and international awards
More than half of the people in Quest crew, the season 3 winner of America’s Best Dance Crew, were from UCI</p>
<p>^ Did not know that. Pretty tight. I suck at dancing haha.</p>
<p>I’m with maruhan - anyone who doesn’t get in to HMC should consider Rose-Hulman - it’s a very good school. They are always ranked the #1 undergrad engineering school in the country. Sometimes HMC shares the #1 spot with them. My son loves it (not there, loves the idea of it). He’s been there for a summer camp, and all the kids were deliriously happy. And they do have some merit aid (but not that much), which would probably be more likely to go to a girl.</p>
<p>@Blackroses216</p>
<p>My parents are basically the same. They wondered why I’m not applying to any ‘prestigious’ schools other than USC. They’d actually rather see me going to USC/UCLA/UC Berkeley over HMC. Asian parents FTL.</p>
<p>I don’t like UCs at all…
I’d go to Caltech, HMC, Olin instead of any other schools.
Stanford is an exception. I’d put stanford with those three although it doesn’t really fit in with the category</p>
<p>Blackroses - Here’s a third vote to check out Rose-Hulman if you don’t get into Mudd. RPI and WPI also have a very similar “quirky” factor.</p>
<p>I am a Mudd alum (loved it there - my time there still impacts my life), but S1 did not get in. He is now a very happy junior at Rose. There are a lot of similarities between Rose and Mudd. The biggest difference is the lack of the 5C’s. He chose Rose over RPI because of the size of the school, the quality of the curriculum, and their job placement success. I’ve posted elsewhere about how good Rose is. The only bad thing is the location, and the gender imbalance. But that would work in your favor for merit money.</p>
<p>I looked into Rose- Hulman after Geekmom63 advised me, and there are three main things that I do not like about it.</p>
<ol>
<li>The weather</li>
<li>The network</li>
<li>The research</li>
</ol>
<p>Weather is self explanatory. As for network, I plan to live in California, and a UC school would help me out better than RHIT if I do not get into HMC. I also plan to get a PhD, and later work in research/ academia. It seems like RHIT is more geared towards those who want to go directly into the workforce (from what i read on their site, about 15% of their graduates went on to Grad school)</p>
<p>I’d love to go to HMC. Hopefully I get in. If not, like I said, I’ll probably go to UCSD (since I doubt my subject test scores will get me into Berkeley) Also, I can always transfer.</p>
<p>Is this true???
That most don’t go for PhD??
That’s… odd</p>
<p>Yes, sorry I meant 20%. I swear I saw 15% somewhere… whatever.</p>
<p>[Rose-Hulman</a> Institute of Technology](<a href=“404 | Rose-Hulman”>404 | Rose-Hulman)</p>
<p>Although this does not include those who go to Grad School later on.</p>
<p>What are you planning on majoring in? I think a lot depends on the major. Most students are engineering majors and do go into the work force upon graduation. </p>
<p>I agree - you can’t beat the weather in California. But the weather in Indiana is not any worse than Cornell…</p>
<p>But, most importantly, I wish for the best of news for you from Mudd…</p>
<p>I want to be an engineering major.</p>
<p>I agree, Cornell weather sucks. Berkeley is my second choice with location, cost, and academics. If I got into Cornell and UCSD, that would be a hard decision, but I doubt I’ll end up in that situation.</p>
<p>I’m going to wait until Tuesday, I don’t want to think about this anymore haha.
Plus… I REALLY should stop procrastinating on my homework… even if it won’t really impact my HMC/UC decision (That’s the mindset I’ve been in… bad, I know)</p>
<p>Oy! Senioritis…</p>
<p>If there is anybody reading this from NY (and accustomed to the cold)… it is worth checking out Clarkson. </p>
<p>Clarkson is not quiete as competitive as RPI/WPI, and it definitely has gender imbalance (mitigated a bit by Potsdam State in same town). But it was a great school with excellent job placement. (My high school guidance counselor had little advise, but he did have this good warning - “if the placement office is a closet with a bare bulb, run the other way.”) </p>
<p>I enjoyed my time at Clarkson in the early 1980s. Along with my BSME, I was easily able to add a few summer courses at home to get a Technical Communications concentration. Clarkson has since consolidated the campus “on the hill”, so it is much more convenient than the old days. If it were easier to get to from CO, it might have been on my son’s list.</p>
<p>About the weather sucky part,
even if New York maybe cold (and always cold) during school season, you never know if you’ll like it or not without experiencing it.
I lived in New York for about 3 years as a child and I used to really like the winter, and I think you’ll have to experience it to know if you’ll like it or not.
In fact, someone I know once said that he doesn’t think a college in the west coast is a true college experience because it doesn’t snow, and you don’t have the tight knit community with your dorm during the cold times.</p>
<p>I’ve been to England in the Winter. I’ve also been hiking in the rockies for 2 months with some light snow and heavy rains. Cold weather sucks.</p>
<p>I think HMC is a close enough knit community without the snow for me. ; )</p>
<p>Plus, the mountains aren’t too far away if I ever want to be in that atmosphere voluntarily.</p>
<p>It’s positively freezing here now. Well, in the 40s…</p>
<p>really?
never would have thought LA area can get that cold</p>
<p>Close to winter break, it snowed my ?first? year at mudd. It was only for a short while, and it didn’t stick, but it was definitely not hail. Oh, and it wasn’t casemas either.</p>
<p>Ahhhh… think you guys: They already KNOW which of us got in, rejected, or deferred.</p>
<p>asdjas;ldkf!!!</p>
<p>true.
but that doesn’t make anything different.
just have to wait for the decision to arrive</p>