<p>Would I have a shot of getting in?</p>
<p>SAT- Writing: 590, Critical Reading: 650, Math: 780
SAT II's: US History-760, Math II-770, Physics - 680
AP's - European History - 4, US History - 5, Physics B - 3
GPA: 3.06 (through first 3 years)
Senior Year GPA so far: 3.75
ACT: 34 (English-35, Math-35, Science-32, Reading-33)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>do you seriously want to go there? i got accepted and dont know much about that place.</p>
<p>I'm kind of divided on Rose-Hulman, it's one of the top 5 engineering schools in the country and is ranked #7 by the Princeton Review in terms of Job Placement. The only concern I have is that I would forfeit any life I have socially instead of going to a school like Purdue or Virginia Tech because of the 54 hours of homework a week.</p>
<p>It's a great school though. All classes are taught by only professors and you will never have more than 30 people in your classes.</p>
<p>wait purdue has that much homework?</p>
<p>No, Rose-Hulman has a policy of giving 3 hours of homework per credit hour and most students take 18 credit hours per quarter. So that means 54 hours of homework a week.</p>
<p>Purdue's definitely a lot less work</p>
<p>sorry for my confusing sentence, im mad tired today haha</p>
<p>yea... I appiled to purdue but the decision is still pending... I applied as ECET but I think I'm going got change it to either CmpE or CS because I want to work with software a bit more...do you have any suggestions?</p>
<p>I heard that it was easy to get into Purdue but difficult to get out. Is this true?</p>
<p>Yep that's definitely true. The introductory classes are very hard and are basically weed-out classes to get rid of people who are not as strong academically. Basically only 57% of people who start out in engineering at Purdue end up graduating with an engineering degree at Purdue.</p>
<p>I applied to Purdue in mid-november and they said that they'd get back to me in 8-10 weeks so maybe i'll hear later this month.</p>
<p>So the reason you chose Rose is because they have better teachers and a more academically supportive program? I hear this alot but idk where people get this information from...I would like to hear more about Rose but it seems that there is barely anything there to begin with...</p>
<p>what major did you apply as? for Rose I believe I applied as CmpE...The onlything that is probably holding me back from Rose is that it is too expensive and you only get to use an HP laptop....</p>
<p>Yeah that's a major problem with Rose, that's why I might end up at Purdue anyways, it's too expensive....I'm not getting a scholarship probably and $50,000 a year is a lot of money</p>
<p>I applied for Civil Engineering, and yeah the laptop requirement could be a pain but what the heck, that's not a major worry of mine.</p>
<p>Here's a place where I found a whole bunch of reviews about Rose-Hulman:</p>
<p>^That link doesn't work for me.</p>
<p>so yea tell me what you think about Purdue? like you said it has a lighter workload right? thats somewhat important since i dont like to study all day in college</p>
<p>my dad is the guy who sells all of the computers to rhit. From what I understand the laptops run pretty fast, and if thats not fast enough for operating/rendering your crap, they have some pretty decent render farms down there too. The benefits of having a standardized population of laptops outweigh the fact that you wont be able to buy a mac book or whatever else you want because the software will work uniformly on all computers (IE, there wont be many, if any driver errors or bsod that ruin your projects).</p>
<p>If you are referencing the c o l l e g e p r o w l e r website, they don't have anything on Rose-Hulman. There are a couple of RH students who post here - PM them if you have any questions.</p>
<p>no it's s t u d e n t r e v i e w . c o m
dunno why they would block that off haha</p>
<p>They're competitor websites. That's why.</p>
<p>if you Request For Information RHIT sends you a school catalog. It only takes about 1 week to receive. </p>
<p>I tried supplying you a link but it doesn't work for some reason. Just go to Prospective Students and on the left side of the page you should see Request For Information. </p>
<p>I am applying to RHIT as well so theres not much I can help you with.</p>
<p>Shouldn't this topic be moved to the Rose-Hulman section?</p>
<p>The current catalog is on their website at Rose-Hulman</a> Institute of Technology</p>
<p>thx. yea it seems that i applied into software engineering and got into it at Rose a long time ago... it seems like a decent cirriculum but it i dont seem the gen eds???? where did they go?</p>
<p>Hey guys. I'm an Electrical Engineering senior at Rose-Hulman.</p>
<p>Pierre: In my experience, the admissions people seem to value class rank and SAT scores more highly than anything else. Check out the 2008 Freshman Profiles at Rose-Hulman</a> Institute of Technology : Admissions . Your SATs and ACTs are better than the median freshman. Your underclassman GPA isn't exceptional, but it looks like your senior GPA is pretty good. I'd say you've definitely got a good shot at getting in.</p>
<p>Regarding workload: I don't believe that Rose students spend a ton more time studying than those at Purdue. I met some Purdue students at my internship last summer, and it didn't seem like their curriculum was a whole lot more or less demanding than Rose's. I could be mistaken, of course, since I haven't attended both schools. To be honest, any top-20 engineering school will be tough. Hell, any ABET-accredited institution will be a challenge. </p>
<p>I chose Rose-Hulman because of its excellent atmosphere for learning. This is due to two main factors. First, the professors' primary interest is teaching. While they are involved in professional development activities (research, writing books, attending conferences, etc.), they are passionate about teaching first. Most profs have an open-door policy and will even give out their home phone numbers so students can give them a call in case of academic emergencies. Rose's small size leads to students developing close relationships with their professors. My academic advisor has helped me IMMENSELY when it came to deciding what to do after graduation.</p>
<p>Secondly, there's a lot of infrastructure to support students academically. We have a learning center that's staffed with student tutors all day to help out anyone struggling with homework or difficult concepts. The learning center also has files of professors' old exams. The sophomore residence hall has tutors that live in the hall and help out students during the evening. The learning center puts on study sessions when final exams roll around.</p>
<p>I think I addressed the main issues. If you guys have any other questions, feel free to post them here. If any Rose kids think I've misrepresented the school in any way, feel free to correct me!</p>
<p>Good luck with your applications.</p>
<p>Good God I didn't expect that to be so long. Sorry for the excessive length.</p>