<p>For me, I had to choose between Georgia Tech and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Georgia Tech really scared me off since I heard the average GPA was like a 2.7? I heard from a student there that he’s had professors curve DOWN his other-wise passing grade to fail him (I guess he had a bell-curving quota)… I mean, I don’t know how true either of those two things are since, by the time you’re reading this, it will be he said she said, but I’d look into the curving and the average GPA there…</p>
<p>I mean, when I went there I had multiple people tell me “don’t come here” (they could tell I was there for the Tech Connection weekend or whatever) and they seemed like they were just messing around, but then again, Of the 10 or so schools I visited, it was the only one that happened at…</p>
<p>Dshinka, oh, that must have been tough on you as well as confusing esp when you are serious about the choices you have made. Where are you going now?</p>
<p>We would have considered Rose, but the weather is an issue. </p>
<p>Wish you the best.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m from Florida and the weather didn’t really bother me since the campus is so small I only had to be outside for 1 - 2 minutes at a time. It takes about 5 minutes to walk from one side of the campus to the other, I believe.</p>
<p>The lake didn’t even freeze over my freshman year, so it wasn’t <em>that</em> cold…</p>
<p>I lost my Air Force ROTC scholarship due to a medical condition I developed my Sophomore year there, so I had to drop out. I’ve had to look for a cheaper school since Rose is very expensive (but was cheaper than Georgia Tech - go figure - the only private school I applied to, which I only applied to since it was free to apply, ended up being cheaper than all public schools I applied to since Rose give you free room and board if you’re on ROTC scholarship - lesson learned: private schools can be cheaper).</p>
<p>I applied to only Christian schools (Taylor, Grove City, Ouachita Baptist, Gardner-Webb, Asbury), but they had awful aid and I couldn’t afford it.</p>
<p>Anyway, my brother, who will be a senior in HS next year, got a thing in the mail from Vanderbilt saying that starting this fall, they will cover 100% financial need with grants and no loans and so I applied there around March 15, 2009 kind of as an after-thought and got in. I still have yet to fill out the CSS PROFILE, but if the Vanderbilt-computed EFC is close enough to the FASFA one, then I will go there this fall… If not, then I will go to the University of North Florida for year (I’m taking courses there this summer) and take the remainder of my non-math/cs courses and transfer back to Rose for 2 more years to finish a double major in math and computer science. If I decide to not double major I’ll spend less than 2 years.</p>
<p>I hope things work out for you…Vandy is a great school too. How was your experience at Rose? I deem you were happy there.</p>
<p>I loved the Academics at Rose. I disliked nearly everything else, though. The food (when you stay up until 2 - 3 AM doing homework, dinner at 6 PM doesn’t hold you over), the women (I was in all-male dorm and only made one female friend while I was there - only because she dated my roommate) and social life in general, the loud drinking and video game playing that kept me awake on the weekends when I’d rather study… The academics though, were amazing and that’s what you go to college for, right? (At least, that’s what I told myself…)</p>
<p>Yes, you are right. Academics must come first. Video games just get too addictive.</p>