<p>These are two such different schools. As Gadad says, you are probably one of the few who are interested in both. RPI has more than 5,000 undergrads and more than 2,000 graduate students (total pop. 7,500). Grinnell has 1,800 undergrads. RPI is less than 1/3 women. Grinnell is roughly 50/50. RPI has frats - Grinnell has none. RPI offers business, engineering, architecture and other ‘professionally-oriented’ areas of studies - Grinnell is purely liberal arts. Troy has a population of 76,000 or so vs. 9,000 for Grinnell.</p>
<p>People who want the RPI experience are not usually the people who are looking for the Grinnell experience. What draws you to both besides good biology depts?</p>