Just got accepted into RIT! :)

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: fyleow
I keep thinking of Rensselaer everytime I see RIT for some reason...

So UIUC is a good school? I kept getting letters from them but threw them away

because RPI pwns RIT in every aspects. i guess, even male/female ratio

 

[fyleow]

I keep thinking of Rensselaer everytime I see RIT for some reason...

So UIUC is a good school? I kept getting letters from them but threw them away

 

[emmpee]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
because RPI pwns RIT in every aspects. i guess, even male/female ratio

not in setting...

rochester > troy, you'd be crazy to think otherwise.

 

[miniMUNCH]

RPI and RIT are great schools...remember, you make your own education.

Harvey Mudd does not own all the other schools on the list...in matter of fact, HMU is a very good school. But I feel that their educational philosophy is severely flawed...they flat out work their students too hard. I live 10 minutes from HM for a long time and almost went there for undergrad (glad I didn't) but several of my friends went to HMU and while they respect the school and feel their education was good, they got totally burnt out.

Having students do a lot of homework and porjects and ripping through 500-1000 page textbooks per semester per class in all fine and good...but the bottom line is how much the students really understand and retain after the course is over...I think HMU generally doesn't give this point enough thought. There is a certain threshold where work stops helping the student and just wears the student out which hurts the learning process.

A friend of mine and I both majored in Chemical Engineering (HMU only has a general engineering degree but they ask you to choose a focus, my friend focused on ChemE), I was a year ahead of him... we used the same books in our courses and covered pretty much the same material except I had a hands-on lab with every ChemE course (he didn't) and I had about half the homework and long projects in each course (still a lot but not crazy)... I think I got a better education than my friend and had more free time to enjoy my years in college (the beach, parties, etc.) and he feels he would've got just a good education somewhere else and paid way too much to go to HMU.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: beyonddc

Originally posted by: OOBradm
I just got accepted there too! how exciting!
I also applied to BU and NorthEastern, so im waiting to see if i get accepted to either of those to make my decision.

Congrats, though! maybe i'll see you there

Even you get accepted to Northeastern, I personally think RIT is a better engineering school.

If you get accepted to BU, then you might need some thinking.

Northeastern all the way! I go there and I like it. RIT was one of my last picks (i did not even apply there in the end. RIT is a good school though and it is also a very hard school. If you are going for CS or Info Tech, I would say NU all the way. You get above a 3.3, you have a good chance at a Microsoft Co-op.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: miniMUNCH
RPI and RIT are great schools...remember, you make your own education.

Harvey Mudd does not own all the other schools on the list...in matter of fact, HMU is a very good school. But I feel that their educational philosophy is severely flawed...they flat out work their students too hard. I live 10 minutes from HM for a long time and almost went there for undergrad (glad I didn't) but several of my friends went to HMU and while they respect the school and feel their education was good, they got totally burnt out.

Having students do a lot of homework and porjects and ripping through 500-1000 page textbooks per semester per class in all fine and good...but the bottom line is how much the students really understand and retain after the course is over...I think HMU generally doesn't give this point enough thought. There is a certain threshold where work stops helping the student and just wears the student out which hurts the learning process.

A friend of mine and I both majored in Chemical Engineering (HMU only has a general engineering degree but they ask you to choose a focus, my friend focused on ChemE), I was a year ahead of him... we used the same books in our courses and covered pretty much the same material except I had a hands-on lab with every ChemE course (he didn't) and I had about half the homework and long projects in each course (still a lot but not crazy)... I think I got a better education than my friend and had more free time to enjoy my years in college (the beach, parties, etc.) and he feels he would've got just a good education somewhere else and paid way too much to go to HMU.

I think you are asking what every school is asking. You describe pretty much every University system out there. I hardly doubt it is a porblem with only HMU and a few.

 

[tom3]

congrats from a fellow RIT student.. well, for another month or so til I finish my thesis project

over my years here, I can tell you that the higher powers in RIT have been doing quite a bit to improve the school's image, and the quality of life for the students here..

 

[suklee]

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