Rose-Hulman good for graduate schools?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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<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>

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<p>I'm a student interested in Computer Science as well. I have some information on it, but I'm going to PM it instead due to my concerns with personal privacy (I don't want to leave something here that is very obviously attached to my identity).</p>

<p>Publicly, I can show you this:
From wikipedia - While Rose is not considered in the doctoral institution rankings, Stanford University's Hoover Institute fellow, Thomas Sowell, mentioned Rose-Hulman as one of the best smaller universities to consider, noting that graduate engineering deans have ranked its graduates ahead of many top schools with Ph.D programs, such as Duke, Princeton, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania (Sources attached: <a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3512836.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3512836.html&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.leaderu.com/alumni/sowell-choosing/chpter12.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.leaderu.com/alumni/sowell-choosing/chpter12.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>I have a feeling though that what I PM you will be a little bit more helpful though.</p>

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<p>Dal, could you possibly pm me what you have as well.. grad school is something I'm definitely interested in, especially since I'm going to go to Rose.</p>

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<p>Yep, I can do that. I just don't want it to be sitting on an open forum.</p>

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<p>Hey Dal - is the information you have about graduate schools? If you don't mind PMing me with that info (if it is about grad schools), I would like it also. I'm a student at Rose already, but I get questions about grad schools and Rose often...</p>

<p>Also: I posted this in jackwang's similar thread in the Graduate Schools forum, but I figured it might be helpful to people reading this one. The offer about the list stands for anyone - not just for jackwang.


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<p>When I went there over last summer, one of the statistics that was given during the presentation was that no RH graduate had ever been turned down for medical school. Of course, I don't know how much of this was said only to try and get people to go to RH but that is still pretty impressive.</p>