<p>Rose-Hulman is a popular option, even for people from here in the Bay Area.</p>
<p>One of the ladies I work with had her daughter graduate from there last year, and her daughter got a great job in California right after graduation.</p>
<p>My son's friend--who just got accepted to the nuclear engineering program at UC Berkeley--said his #2 choice was Rose-Hulman. Considering he could have chosen from MIT, Stanford, UCLA, Cornell, and UCSD, I consider that pretty high praise.</p>