<p>as far as scope and nature of the curriculum goes and what kinds of job opps would be available for each post grad. not interested in the climate and location differences.</p>
<p>of one is an apple and the other is an orange, please tell me.</p>
<p>to clarify:</p>
<p>HM : RH</p>
<p>RPI : RH</p>
<p>I think the second post on this thread was a great comparision of RH and Harvey Mudd:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvey-mudd-college/883813-admission-mudd-vs-rose-hulman.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvey-mudd-college/883813-admission-mudd-vs-rose-hulman.html</a></p>
<p>thanks, twizz. I did not know that RH had some humanities required. I assumed , due to the name, that it was ‘pure technical’, and the students might not exercise their readin’ and writin’. </p>
<p>I sheepishly confess that, having only started this looksee, and that I did not actually pop open the grad reqs from the website.</p>
<p>Can one do comp sci / math at RH?</p>
<p>To me it is obvious why there are more apps at HM. It is in LA, short distance to the ocean and to hollywood, surrounded by those four other premier schools where a students can avail themselves of those other schools’ offerings. This all actually conspires, to me, to make RH a better option, especially in the sciences, from what I can see - as far as solid academics and preparation for post college goes. One can go to hollywood later, if one wants to visit 
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<p>I have already gathered from listening to others that there is a superior support and nurturing environment at RH, probably due to this more egalitarian acceptance policy (god bless terra haute). I am not sure how this compares w/ other science-like places, especially other places that start with students with garish SAT/ACT numbers, solidly north of 30 in the mid 50 of the ACT.</p>
<p>From listening in at CC postings, I get the idea that many engineering schools, especially bigger ones, run with a 'exclude/weed ‘em’ model. ‘Only the best and strong survive’ model. That RH seems to want to nurture their students instead of nazi like, weed 'em out, speaks to me as a good place to go to college.</p>
<p>another line from that link to the HM : RH compare,</p>
<p>RH “has a much more socio-politically conservative atmosphere”.</p>
<p>How ACTIVE is this socio political atmosphere? Are there klan meetings on or near campus? is attendance required? :)</p>
<p>Or is the socio political atmosphere at Rh less active and more middle of the road, apathetic at best?</p>
<p>you are scaring me.</p>
<p>I have been watching Harvey Mudd and Rose Hulman threads and I think what roderick was attempting to get at, tho slightly convoluted is : what is the political climate at Rose? The other poster from Mudd stated that Rose was pretty conservative.</p>
<p>So the question is how conservative and how does that translate at the student level. There are some schools, Illinois Wesleyan, for example, that are more middle of the road, not liberal, not conservative.</p>
<p>I looked at princeton review and found that Rose is in the top 20 schools that are conservative.</p>
<p><a href=“Most Conservative College | The Princeton Review”>Most Conservative College | The Princeton Review;
<p>My D says its middle of the road</p>
<p>cheezewhiz, that impression -of not being too active in politics at RH - seems to be consistent with the other item that RH was ranked nationally on in the PR guide, “Politics: Election? What Election? How popular are political/activist groups?”.</p>
<p>[Test</a> Prep: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, SAT, ACT, and More](<a href=“Colleges with Least Politically Active Students | The Princeton Review”>Colleges with Least Politically Active Students | The Princeton Review)</p>
<p>as long as I am on the subject of RH characteristics (vs HM), a couple of other items in which RH was nationally ranked in the PR guide was Best Career Services and ‘school runs like butter’, class discussions rare, and more to do on campus.</p>
<p>HM, on the other hand, was ranked nationally in</p>
<p>least beautiful campus, profs get high marks, most accessible profs among a couple of other items.
<a href=“College Search | Find Colleges | The Princeton Review”>College Search | Find Colleges | The Princeton Review;
<p>To my knowledge, the princeton review student surveys are not to be taken seriously. The volatile changes in “rankings” every year are interesting ^_^. Those lists are entirely subjective, of course excellent for good laughs :). I’ve also read somewhere that these surveys are voluntary, and we all know that online voluntary response polls are…(fill in the blank). :-></p>
<p>I do agree with their assessment of political lethargy and the great career services folks here. The runs like butter thing probably has to do with the fact that the administration, like everyone else here, is very open and approachable to the student body and their needs.</p>
<p>I hate to be stereotypical, but I think the nature of Rose-Hulman being a math, science and engineering school and its location make it prone to ‘political lethargy’, as nic767 put it. I am in no way to box Rose-Hulman before I have spent time there, but I personally would not imagine it to be a very politically active school from those 2 aspects. There probably are active people in the political process, but I would say the environment fosters that necessarily (and that isn’t a bad thing).</p>
<p>I know my son would prefer not to have political activism of any kind distract him from his academics. Middle of road / ‘politically lethargic’ wd be a good fit for my son.</p>
<p>Re: Rose-Hulman being politically lethargic–will my son come home a Republican and throw our Thanksgiving dinners into chaos? (joking, I think we could breathe deeply and handle it, but . . . just wanted to know what you think.)</p>
<p>From what my son says, Rose tends to be pretty tolerant of all views. His take is that it is a small school…they all have to live closely together for four years and want to get along. (Of course, my son tends to be pretty easy going and is able to get along with most anyone.) Unlike many schools out there, there is no agenda being pushed. The students are there to learn to be scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. It sounds like they politely listen to others’ viewpoints and discuss differences without becoming obnoxious. Perhaps the country would be in better shape if we all took lessons from the students at Rose.</p>
<p>Thanks, mamava. I’m okay with neutral and listening. This would be good. I’m also okay with exposure to ideas that are not my own. This is also good–and why we’d consider sending him to a school that doesn’t necessarily adhere to our family’s general views. I just want to be sure that it is indeed neutral and that “neutral” isn’t a code word for “right wing agenda.”</p>