Comments on: Skool is big

By: Keith Casey

Keith Casey — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:57:25 +0000

I knew of a few people in the class after ours that were accepted to Rose but not Purdue. Corbin called it right, I can still think of a half-dozen that never should have been there… and ended up with 25k in loans from a lax admissions policy.

By: corbin

corbin — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:22:25 +0000

i know we had a big friggin’ class my freshman year, but dont’ remember how big. i also agree with the people that should have never stepped foot there. for instance, kevin brannin, great guy, smart guy, lazy guy. before getting accepted to rose, his plan was to go to ivy tech, but he applied to rose because it was free… and how many other people from my class didn’t make it through sophomore curriculum, let alone freshman year…

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:34:28 +0000

But that doesn’t make sense. The senior class is always significantly smaller than the freshman class, so a frosh class of 500 means a senior class of something like 330.

500 + 440 + 380 + 330 = 1650

Not enough grad students to make up the difference.

I’d say they’d have to be shooting for around 600 freshmen to get 2000 students. But even then, it seems too big.

By: Str8N8

Str8N8 — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:22:39 +0000

The goal for total students at Rose-Hulman was 2,000 by the year 2,000. That number was set in the early ’90s. Due to construction not being finished and other delays (funding for said construction), it didn’t happen. Ideally, 525 is a bit larger than Rose would like (the goal being 500 per class), but more people committed than usual based on the number accepted. From my understanding, and I was privy to a couple of these talks, 2,000 is the maximum size of student body the administration would like to see. That is, unless, the new administration decides differently. However, due to campus size constraints, that is doubtful.