<p>I've been accepted to Rodman and am in the stage of chosing where to attend. Currently, I'm still largely undecided. Although the Rodman program looks interesting, I was also offered admission to bigger engineering names like Cornell. I would like to know what you think of Rodman vs. other engineering schools, where you have chosen or are leaning towards and why.</p>
<p>So, what do you think?</p>
<p>screw CORNELL</p>
<p>go somewhere other than uva... and spread this message among other uva engineers</p>
<p>I like it for the priority registration.</p>
<p>My son will attend UVA as a Rodman Scholar next fall. He mentions the following as reasons: proximity to home, the RS program (especially the first year living arrangements and common classes with other RSs), and his comfort level with the campus ambience and facilities on his several visits.</p>
<p>Had he not been admitted as a Rodman Scholar, he might have given greater consideration to Rice University which his sister attends as a biochemistry major and to which he was also admitted. Rice has an attractive well-planned campus, excellent engineering and science departments, strong financial resources, a low professor-to-student ratio, and, perhaps most distinguishing, a highly-regarded residential college system. The RS program at UVA creates a small community within the larger university that, in a way, affords many of the same benefits as Rices residential college system. As it is, his personal preference, based on where he wants to spend his undergraduate years, is UVA.</p>