The Rose Hulman Institute of Technology (StudentsReview)

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	F	Faculty Accessibility	C
Useful Schoolwork	F	Excess Competition	D
Academic Success	D-	Creativity/ Innovation	F
Individual Value	C	University Resource Use	B
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A	Friendliness	B+
Campus Maintenance	A	Social Life	F
Surrounding City	F	Extra Curriculars	C
Safety	A

Describes the student body as: Afraid, Broken Spirit, Closeminded Describes the faculty as: Helpful

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Lowest Rating Educational Quality	F

Highest Rating Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A

He cares more about Educational Quality than the average student.

Date: Jan 05 2006
Major: Mechanical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
To be serious, this is a place for nerds. If you enjoy any kind of social life, this isn't the place for you. Sure, you'll make a nice salary when you get out of here, but you'll have to make some sacrafices. This place is pretty much all work and no play. The problem is that you do so much work here that you don't have time for much of anything else. If you enjoy that kind of thing, then you'll be okay here. So before you decide to attend, here's some other things that all this pro-university crap doesn't tell you about:

1. Credits dont transfer. Even though you'll be taking some of the hardest courses in the country for your major, most universities won't accept your credits because they don't offer the same classes. So the longer you stay here, the more you are stuck here. Also, outside of engineering and technology majors, this school doesnt offer much. So making a change in career choice is made even more complicated and potentially expensive.

2. Don't be fooled by the fact that Rose is relatively close to some big schools. You wont have time to visit there anyway. The closest big school, Indiana State, has parties on Thursdays and some Fridays (maybe one or two during the year on a Saturday), which is pretty inconvenient for Rose students. Also, they only have them at the beginning and end of the academic year. Other big schools aren't too far, but you probably wont have time to visit them anyway. So, there's not much of a party scene here or anywhere nearby.

3. Terre Haute sucks. Plan and simple. This college town is pretty lame for the lack of a better word. There's not much to do off campus (or on campus) in this town. So, unless you're catching a bite to eat or a movie, you're pretty much stuck on campus if you choose to live on campus (which all freshmen must do). Then there's also the fact that this is Indiana, and everything you've probably heard about this state is true.

4. The food is terrible. If you enjoy a good meal, you wont find it here. Dining Choices are very limited as well. The meal plans (which every freshman must have) aren't too great either.

5. The athletic facilities are nice, but once again, you wont have much time for them. Want to catch a game pick-up basketball? No one's playing. Intramurals help, but there's not much for the rest of the week.

6. Downtime is spelled b-o-r-e-d-u-m. As you've probably figured by now, if you're not studying or doing homework, you're bored out of your mind.

7. Most Rose kids are socially inept. These kids may be geniouses, but they have no social skills whatsoever. The sad thing for you if you come here is that you have to deal with the fact that there are very few people to associate with. In other words, if you're not a caucasian male nerd, you wont fit in.

8. 80% Male. The male to female ratio here is four to one. Not only does this place lack women, but they're not that attractive either. Seriously, there aren't too many attractive women into math and science. It's not prejudice, its just a hard, cold fact. So if you come here, you need to lower your standards, substantially, or take a vow of celebacy.

9. Rose is on the trimester system, which means you'll be doing more work per year than at semester styled colleges at a ratio of 3 to 2. Also, this system means that the breaks don't always coincide with everyone else's(including spring break). Also, winter break is a week shorter. You also start the school year earlier and stay three weeks longer at school than most anyone esle. There is good news, though, ever since they implemented more breaks at this school (they didnt always have them), the suicide rate here has dropped dramatically. Seriously, I have a friend whose aunt works at the local suicide hotline, and they get a lot of calls from this school.

10. Rose is expensive. Tuition here is pretty high, mainly because its a private institution. So, you'll be needing a lot of financial aid, unless you have some good scholarships or you're just plain rich and spoiled (which a good number of students here are). You'll make some good money when you leave, but those student loans will kill you.

11. The professors are terrible. Just because all the classes are taught by faculty, doesn't mean that they're all good. As a matter of fact, most of them can't teach. They just have the luxury of having extra smart kids that study all the time, so they don't have to actually teach, they just give a lot of work. Some of them are pretty terrible with english too.

12. "Rose what?" I've been in this situation way too many times. Most people don't know about this school. Unless its an employer, its usually pretty awkward telling someone where you go to school.

That's pretty much the make up of most of what you have to put up with here. My advise is not to come here unless all work and no play sounds good to you. Nothing is easy at this school and no matter how smart you are, you will be challenged. If you still want to come here after reading all this, then come on in. This is definitely the college for you.

Responses

I'm looking for a smaller school that is going to offer the best education. What school would you recommend?

There aren't that many attractive men in math and science is another cold, hard fact. Lower your standards—please! If it helps you to lie to yourself keep thinking this way, but the reality is that going to RHIT just prevented you from getting rejected from those other women that you imagine are available to caucasian nerds at other colleges. That is to say none at all- you're gross, but you lot delude yourselves into thinking that you're "average guys". The women are the ones lowering their standards. At least they are not crippled by a huge lack of self awareness.

Did we go to the same school?
You are really focusing on the negatives of the school here, and a lot of your claims are exaggerated.

I'll go point by point: 1) Not a lot of experience here, but those I know who've transferred out haven't had much of an issue. 2) Time management is a personal thing, you can get stuff done and still have time to visit ISU if you're so inclined, or even Purdue or IU on the weekends. 3) Terre Haute does pretty much suck. You've gotta find what you like about it though, Deming Park is a great place to hang out on nice days. On campus there is always stuff going on. 4)I used to think the cafeteria food sucked too, but then I found what I liked. There are a lot of options. 5)Couldn't be further from the truth, there are people playing IM's most days, the weight and cardio rooms always have people in them, and I often see people just shooting around or playing racquetball. 6)Sounds like a personal problem. 7) I can think of less than ten people I know at Rose who are so socially inept that conversation is awkward / impossible. That's it. Most people here are surprisingly normal. 8) More women are coming to Rose every year. They aren't all that bad looking, most people here (guys and girls included) are pretty average in terms of looks. 9) The high workload and constant work is the reason why we're held in such high regard academically. 10) This is true, total cost of attendance is pushing $60k 11) So completely wrong. With few exceptions, every professor I've had loves to teach, has good office hours, and can relate with us. 12) Name recognition is a bit of a struggle, yes. If you get a job through the career fair though, that won't be a problem- they WANT Rose grads. Any HR recruiter will do the research on your school and a two second google search will let them know that Rose is a top ranked engineering school, period. The only awkward part about telling people where you go to school is explaining our rankings without coming off as pretentious.

Did we go to the same school?
You are really focusing on the negatives of the school here, and a lot of your claims are exaggerated.

I'll go point by point:

1) Not a lot of experience here, but those I know who've transferred out haven't had much of an issue.

2) Time management is a personal thing, you can get stuff done and still have time to visit ISU if you're so inclined, or even Purdue or IU on the weekends.

3) Terre Haute does pretty much suck. You've gotta find what you like about it though, Deming Park is a great place to hang out on nice days. On campus there is always stuff going on.

4)I used to think the cafeteria food sucked too, but then I found what I liked. There are a lot of options.

5)Couldn't be further from the truth, there are people playing IM's most days, the weight and cardio rooms always have people in them, and I often see people just shooting around or playing racquetball.

6)Sounds like a personal problem.

7) I can think of less than ten people I know at Rose who are so socially inept that conversation is awkward / impossible. That's it. Most people here are surprisingly normal.

8) More women are coming to Rose every year. They aren't all that bad looking, most people here (guys and girls included) are pretty average in terms of looks.

9) The high workload and constant work is the reason why we're held in such high regard academically.

10) This is true, total cost of attendance is pushing $60k

11) So completely wrong. With few exceptions, every professor I've had loves to teach, has good office hours, and can relate with us.

12) Name recognition is a bit of a struggle, yes. If you get a job through the career fair though, that won't be a problem- they WANT Rose grads. Any HR recruiter will do the research on your school and a two second google search will let them know that Rose is a top ranked engineering school, period. The only awkward part about telling people where you go to school is explaining our rankings without coming off as pretentious.

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