<p>Well, at this point I'm 99% sure that my list of accepted schools comes down to</p>
<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Rose Hulman
Rochester Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Rose Hulman and WPI would both cause me to incur about $60k of debt after 4 years, while RIT would only cause me to incur about $20k of debt. </p>
<p>Not sure if anyone has any advice? Which one do you think is the best? I guess right now I'm looking for a school with good general math or science or physics classes, since that's what I'm interested in.</p>
<p>I know of kids at RIT who are very happy there. They also seem to have very good jobs already lined up once they graduate. I also know of someone who looked at WPI and liked the campus and the kids very much. Found the kids very friendly. All three are very good schools. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hmmm... Thanks, I also got wait-listed at Johns Hopkins, and that might turn out. Also I have yet to hear back from Carnegie Mellon. So who knows? </p>
<p>But in the meantime, I do have to pick a school as my first choice, since getting accepted off of the waitlist is really unpredictable (and unlikely). </p>
<p>Right now I'm leaning in the direction of RIT, since it's about 20k cheaper for me, and provides an awesome variety of classes.</p>
<p>I would leave RIT out and focus on RHU and WPI.</p>
<p>RHU will probably be a better choice,because it specifically focuses in STEM (Science,Technology,Engineering,and Mathematics.)</p>
<p>But,WPI is the only school w/ a robotics major,but ONLY if u r interested in robotics can be the only reason for which you choose WPI over the others.</p>
<p>And RHU is also better ranked than the other 2</p>
<p>Where are you from al6200? How can you be so sure what your debt will be at these schools? Did RIT give you some kind of huge grant? Have you received the financial aid packages from the other schools yet?</p>
<p>You have to take into account the size of the colleges and what you have to do there. For example the college I know best is wpi which is my dad's college is very small compared to RIT. Also, it runs on a quarter and it is part of a group of 13 colleges in the area that you can take classes from.</p>
<p>Personally, I visited WPI and was not too impressed by the campus. Partially because I'm a gardener and the weeds were crazy in some parts of the campus, haha. I've been accepted, with a pretty generous merit scholarship, but I probably won't end up attending a technical university, hah (i applied for biology but will probably attend a liberal arts school). However, I have a friend that will be attending Rose-Hulman, and two of his siblings went there as well. It's not as well known, but if you're looking for a school with great professors and individual attention, I'd go to Rose. When I visited WPI, the professors THEY CHOSE to give lectures on computer science and general engineering were very hard to understand; one definately had trouble speaking english. My friend's siblings have never encountered this at Rose, although obviously they had a few crappy professors. One of his siblings is actually still at Rose, but the other has graduated and has an awesome job (and is making good money). My friend also applied to RIT and was accepted (as well as to WPI), but he wants a school with a focus on undergrad. WPI focuses on undergrad as well, but both my friend and I kind of disliked it when we visited it. Give Rose a chance, and you'll be glad. It's quite a hidden gem, IMO.</p>
<p>Really, your best bet is to visit the campuses if you can.</p>
<p>I won't be able to visit Rose Hulman :(, but I'm visiting WPI next week. I'm really hoping for the best with them. Professors who can't speak english would be a problem for me, although this Worcester consortium thing does look pretty good. </p>
<p>I'm kind of leaning away from Rose since their general math/science/theory/humanities stuff doesn't seem to be on par with WPI or RIT, and almost everything looks geared to engineering...</p>
<p>I guess I didn't read your post closely enough, sorry. I figured since you were considering technical schools you were looking to go into engineering. Yes, Rose is basically an engineering haven (although there are definately people who major in math or physics). I kind of got the same feeling from WPI, but I could be completely wrong about that.</p>
<p>Well, I want to major in engineering, but I'm really interested in a sort of well-rounded math/science curriculum. In other words, I'm into the core engineering stuff, but I also want to do math theory classes, and scientific theory on the side. </p>
<p>Idk, I've gotten about ~70 credits from AP tests / Community College, and I was hoping that they'd all transfer intact, but it looks like WPI only wants to give half-credit for transfered/AP classes. </p>
<p>That pushes RIT up somewhat, since I'm hoping the college will acknowledge about ~2 years worth of credit. </p>
<p>I'm really hoping that some school is willing to take the transfer credit, since I'd prefer to spend my time in college branching out and taking up new interests, rather than re-doing classes I did at the community college.</p>
<p>I agree Worcester is in a good locationcompared to others, but the city surrounding the college probably have seen better days ( i saw it a couple of weeks ago). My dad graduated from the college with a degree in phsyics lets say... idk....30-35 years ago just about. And they still have the quarter schedule so if you get lost early you are bound to stay lost, but on the good side you cant fail a clas(not recorded if lower then a C). I am interested in it for many of the departments and probably will be applying there next year(take an actual tour...not my dad walking around and telling me what the buildings were 30 years ago) and i am thankful my dad subjected me to a information session because i really like the way they run their academics (and the nerdy t-shirts, best i seen in any campus book store so far on my travels)</p>
<p>The SAT scores at WPI are 100 points higher than at RIT. That's huge. This shouldn't be a tough choice. Don't worry about your transfer credit. You should take the math and physics courses at WPI, not try to avoid them. They will be taught at a much higher level at WPI and the curriculum will be designed to prepare you for the engineering courses. Don't try to transfer courses in your major or in the prerequisites for your major. Only transfer electives. You will be at a disadvantage if you don't take the WPI version of courses like calc and physics.</p>
<p>I am going to be in the same position as you soon. I am looking at similar colleges, but I try to take into account how far away they are from where i live just in case something happens and i need to hightail it home. So thats why i am looking towards good technical colleges that are also near family (Michigan Tech, Stevens, WPI..my dads whole family lives up there,UMD b/c i live in southern MD) So just asking which one of these colleges are you interested is pretty close? Because you don't want to end up homesick like my cousin who went to RIT and had to go home after one semester and now is computing 100 miles a day to go to some associate degree college in Connecticut.</p>