[Nickshu]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

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...

We have been there many times during the school year (lots of smart kid events there my son as gone to)....My impression is a lot of students don't live in Golden or nearby, they choose to live/drive in from Denver/Boulder/etc so I guess that is what gives it the suitcase school feel. I'm sure that is changing as you mentioned. It's a great school yes. We were surprised they gave my son the "Pathways" program acceptance where he has to go to another CO school for 2 years than can start at Mines...surprised b/c his numbers exceed their acceptance requirements. Totally not interested in that program so Mines is out for us, but I guess it's a testament to very high application rates there now. Nothing against them, like I said my son was not super interested in Mines to begin with so no heartache.