<p>As an international high school senior, I've never heard of Rose-Hulman but applied because my cousin told me about it.</p>
<p>I think it's quite good in my opinion, offering so many science courses you can choose at your disposal, double majoring and so on.</p>
<p>However, my goal is to go on to graduate school (but haven't decided on whether that's medical, law, or again engineering), and I don't know how Rose-Hulman is to the graduate schools' eyes. I mean, not just graduate schools in general, but also some top tier ones like Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech.</p>
<p>The thing that worries me is that not many people are going to graduate schools from Rose-Hulman. Is it a matter of that they are unable to get accepted or something else? Besides, is there any one from Rose-Hulman who got into the top tier grad schools every year?</p>
<p>I don't know whether this idea is correct or not, but I found an article from Wikipedia that says basically graduate schools don't look too much into the name of the school, but how the school teaches and offers in YOUR field when you apply. So, for example, Princeton is big name but its engineering isn't necessarily better than Rose's. What comes down is how good you are in your field, no ECs and stuff, is that true???</p>
<p>besides, how's the computer science department at Rose-Hulman?</p>
<p>please help...</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>I met a few rose-hulman people during my visits to some of the schools you've mentioned. They were all very bright so it seems like you won't be disadvantaged coming out of there. It seems like most of them work as opposed to going to grad school. So its not like a huge amount of them are rejected or anything.</p>
<p>thanks blah2009...</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what degrees are those rose people pursuing in grad schools? medicine, computer science, law, business, etc etc???</p>
<p>It seems quite strange that you are so luck to actually meet a few of those people, since how do you know they are actually from Rose when you see their face in the first place?</p>
<p>are you a high school junior btw??</p>
<p>besides, is there any particular good reason for the majority of rose people to work as opposed for grad schools?</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman tends to attract people for undergrad that are more interested in going into industry after graduating than academia. I believe the school is set up a bit that way, as they have programs to help with entrepreneurial enterprises. I think their graduates are seen as pretty top notch, though, and shouldn't have a difficult time gaining acceptance into a top school provided they achieve to the best of their ability during their school years.</p>
<p>So I will be at a disadvantage at Rose if I want to be in academia???</p>
<p>jackwang - I had a similar question last year when I was deciding on Rose (I did end up attending), and I contacted someone at the admissions office that provided me with a list of graduate schools that Rose-Hulman graduates have attended in the last 3 years (one year old now). It isn't broken down by major, it is just a big list, but at least it provides some help. It includes big-names such as Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc. </p>
<p>Private message me your email address and I can send it to you, if you want.</p>
<p>I don't think you'd be at a disadvantage. You shouldn't have a problem getting into a great grad school if you do really well at RH, and after grad school nobody really cares where you did undergrad (unless they went there too, in which case it's fun to talk about your experiences there).</p>
<p>To jackwang:</p>
<p>At some of the weekends, we had nametags with our names and undergrad institutions under them. Other times, we introduced ourselves and where we were from at the start. And I'm a college senior about to enter grad school.</p>