<p>Doesn't it seem weird how Rose-Hulman accepts like 70% of all applicants, and is supposed to be a great engineering school; however, no one seems to know who they are...</p>
<p>Not to downplay the school or anything, but it doesn't seem too great to be the best engineering school (to not offer a phd program).</p>
<p>I did get accepted to Rose-Hulman, but I think I'd rather go to McGill University....</p>
<p>Rose is lesser known for several reasons, but this doesn’t mean it’s not a good school. First, Rose is a small school, so obviously that means fewer alumni and fewer relatives of alumni, so fewer people will have a connection to the school. Also, since Rose focuses on an undergraduate education, they don’t have the notoriety that a lot of schools get from research. But this isn’t really a negative since the research at larger schools doesn’t really affect the education of undergraduates. What I have found, though, is that the people who matter (in particular prospective employers) have heard of the school. My parents and I had not heard of Rose-Hulman until my junior year in high school when my dad (an electrical engineer) heard his coworkers talking about how impressed they were with two Rose grads they had just hired. The number of companies and grad schools that recruit on campus and the excellent job placement rate also speaks to the quality of the education Rose provides.</p>
<p>Since Rose isn’t very widely known, most of the applicants are very serious about wanting to go to Rose, and don’t apply unless they have done their research and believe they are well qualified. A better way to compare our admissions standards would be to look at the SAT scores and other statistics of our freshman class, and I think you will be impressed when you look at those.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about McGill, but I’d definitely suggest that you visit both schools if you haven’t already before you make a decision.</p>
<p>Yeah, I definitely want to visit; however, I don’t think I’ll have time to.</p>
<p>Prestige isn’t the only issue (and besides, I haven’t heard about McGill until just now anyway). There’s also the quality of education, which is very good, the quality of the teachers, the happiness of the students, … in short, the ever-elusive “fit”. My son went to summer camp at RHIT last summer. The camp was staffed with many current students who were deliriously happy (of course, they wouldn’t let the cranky ones do the summer camp!) with everything. It’s his second choice. He likes it more than Caltech, to which he’s already been admitted, for the teaching quality and what the students running the camp had to say.</p>
<p>If you don’t have time to visit, at least spend several hours visiting through this site and College Pr owler and others.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Hey, I recommend you, puryearn, to read this thread (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rose-hulman-institute-technology/834019-rigorous.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rose-hulman-institute-technology/834019-rigorous.html</a>) in which I made some posts outlining what school Rose-Hulman is like in depth.</p>
<p>Admission: Highly competitive; more than 3,500 applications for 465-member freshman class</p>
<p>%70 acceptance rate must be a mistake. It’s actually %12-%13. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>While they do only enroll 465, they accept roughly 2500 applicants out of 3500 applicants. That’s where the 70% acceptance rate comes from. Many of the 2,500 applicants (roughly 2,000, to be exact) choose to go somewhere else.</p>
<p>What if all accepted students wanted to enroll at Rose? Do they have enough spots
for 2500 students?</p>
<p>Furkank, that’s the game that all colleges have to play. They have to guess at what percentage of accepted students will actually attend so they can figure out how many students they can admit. Typically they come very close to their goal, but the current senior class turned out to be much larger than expected, even though they admitted fewer students that year.</p>