<p>CPE, I kinda thought as much, thanks (cd nt have been chem).</p>
<p>Turning down RHIT for UCSD. For me it came down to cost. Got scholarship for first year only at RHIT ( 10K total for 1st yr). Still too expensive since I am Cal resident.</p>
<p>Even if it takes 5yrs at UCSD I still save $$$$$$</p>
<p>wow, that’s crazy–</p>
<p>I just called to check to make sure ours is for 4 years!! (She said it was) </p>
<p>We are getting very close to sending in deposit–looking at RIT one more time tomorrow—for the third time!!</p>
<p>Anyone else going through this??</p>
<p>Often scholarships are only listed for one year, but if you ask they can be renewed for four years as long as the student remains in good standing. This happened to me, and I had a one year scholarship extended for all four years.</p>
<p>nick123 said–
“I had a one year scholarship extended for all four years”</p>
<p>did you graduate from RH? If so, who did you turn down and quick side question, how did your experience at RH turn out?</p>
<p>Just (literally) paid my son’s deposit for RHIT! After much agonizing and multiple visits to each, he is turning down U of Mich (as well as RIT, Michigan Tech and a few other small LACs) for what we hope will be a collaborative, supportive, yet still academically rigorous education at Rose. I spent many years at a Big Ten school, as an undergrad, in prof school and in grad school, and aside from the huge size, I can say with first-hand knowledge that those schools, while excellent overall, really are focused on graduate education and research, giving all but the most zealous and outstanding undergrads rather short shrift. I think RHIT will be a much better fit for undergrad, and Michigan will always be there if he decides grad school is in the cards… It is a HUGE relief for all of us to have this decision behind us, and I wish you all luck with your decisions in the coming days!</p>
<p>dory, thanks for the input. RH seems like a great choice. I understood the benefit of the smaller school since my older daughter is at an LAC (english psych education) , but I did not know there were science-tech oriented smaller schools out there, too. My son seems more oriented to science-tech but has said that he likes the smaller school. It seems that with the difficulty of an engineering program, the more supportive can only be better. The ‘weeding out’ model that I have read about at some places does not seem to be consistent with solving the problem of getting the student through the curriculum. After all, is this a game of attrition or aren’t we trying to educate the students for the money spent? </p>
<p>RH’s idea of collaborative and supportive is actually quite consistent with the real world model of project teams all for one goal. </p>
<p>In the spirit of better understanding, I’d like someone to make the case for the bigger school for science-tech-engineering <em>for UG</em>. If it is employer contacts upon graduation, it looks like RH has this benefit, too, from what I have read. </p>
<p>My wife did wonder, however, if there might be <em>more</em> employers (a more varied set of employers) at a bigger school upon graduation than at RH just because there are so many more students at a bigger school. Can someone address this question?</p>
<p>dory, couple of questions:</p>
<p>does your son know what he wants to major in? </p>
<p>And, I notice that LACs were on his list of cross-offs. LACs are small and would have the learning/mentoring cachet of an RH, so I was curious how it is that you crossed them off. After all, LACs have sciences, too.</p>
<p>Dory, thank you so much. My son is taking one last look at RIT today and then will make his choice. (How many times have I said this–today we will make a decision!!) I think it will probably be Rose.</p>
<p>Roderick-I have some experience with a larger school. My older daughter is a junior at BYU-30,000 students. </p>
<p>Her experience with research has been amazing. She is interested in acoustical physics. Her freshman year she literally knocked on doors of physics professors and asked if they had any research work she could be a part of. She got a job–but spent most of her time being a “gopher”. She was the only undrgrad and did what ever was asked of her cheerfully. One day while building some bookcases for her “research project” a professor came to her and said he liked her attitude and thought it was time she did more than build bookcases. He gave her her own research project and now, two years later, she presented her research at the Acoustical Sociey of Americas conference last week in Baltimore. </p>
<p>She has two papers set to be published in scientific journals. She is 20 years old.</p>
<p>The career fairs at BYU attract almost 300 companies. She has had much interest with companies that want to bring her out . She is not interested at this point as she wants to do grad school.</p>
<p>This is not a totally unique situation. Her roommate is in biomedical engineering and also working on a project that will be published next year.</p>
<p>So big is not necessarily bad–at least not in our experience.</p>
<p>Finally decided and glad to have it behind us. We are in OH, so the location is very convenient.
Turned down: Carnegie, Case, RPI, Wash U, MO S&T, OSU, Ohio Northern
Still struggling with what college costs these days, but S isn’t worried and it’s his commitment. Rose costs more $$ than most schools we turned down, but we all agree that Rose is the best choice. (Tuition room & board at a state school for me was $3600/year and I graduated with no debt.)
Stats-4.0 UW, Valedictorian; 32 ACT, 34 Math, 35 English; SAT-750 math, 670 reading, 650 writing, 1420 combined. NHS, Student Senate, 2 sport varsity athlete</p>
<p>H & I went to big state universities and have done very well with hard work, but my H says he got burned out on engineering in a “weed out” program. Got his MBA and works for a mfg company, so he uses both, but felt like Rose would be a great learning environment for our S and huge contrast to large eng programs.
I am confident our S would do well in any program, but I agree that Rose is “a bigger bang for your buck”.</p>
<p>roderick - My son is likely interested in computer science, software engineering and/or math. As for the other LACs, he was looking at Kalamazoo College (they only have a 3:2 engineering program, which just didn’t make much sense, and a very tiny CS department with only 3 faculty) and Hope College. He loved Hope but they have a very new engineering department and overall he just wasn’t sure it would provide him with a rigorous enough program. Also, I have to admit that although he liked the environment of the small LACs very much, he really wasn’t crazy about the relatively massive english/humanities requirements! 
I think RH will be just the right blend of academic rigor and small-school environment for someone who really loves math and physical science.</p>
<p>Again, good luck to all in your decisions…</p>
<p>I have turned down:
Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
U of Michigan
UCSD(engineering science)
Stanford(not engineering related major)
Washington U
Purdue
HK university
Imperial College in London
University of Bath(another British school)
University of Toronto(honor program)
Mcgill(in Quebec)
Waterloo(canadian school)
*I’m canadian citizen, so I applied 3 Canadian universities</p>
<p>Universities that turned me down :
MIT(haha of course)
Harvard(applied for fun><")
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Universities I forgot to apply but I want to:
CalTech
Cornell
carnegie mellon</p>
<p>I am transferring in hence the tardiness.
I have turned down
University of Texas at Austin
Rochester Institute of Technology</p>