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Originally Posted by Nickshu
... mostly male students and for the most part a suitcase school (Lots of local smart kids who just go home on the weekends). He does want the "college experience" and having been to Mines many times I can tell you that it really doesn't have it at all...my thought based on what I can read about RPI is that it's like Mines of the east, so might be similar in offering a great education, but a weird college experience?? Not certain.
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Mrs mjohnson is a many-over Mines grad so there was at least one female. I'd say that they're even nearing parity now - not like the 3:1 days of the early '90s when I showed up.
I never thought of it as a "suitcase school" as most students were from far across the country and the world - not just the front range of CO. And for "experience", every place is different and you make from it what you do. For athletics, they're booming. They want to be the "Stanford of the Rockies" and made it to the D2 football championship game. Lots of other NCAA finalists in other sports. And for non-organized things, just look around. Mountains to the west, Denver to the east...
Similar to our current home of PhDs and nerds in Los Alamos NM, those that do lean towards the arts lean hard. Quite a vibrant community in music, theater and other artsy things.
College - you get out what you put in.