Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anybody here a Colorado School of Mines graduate?

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I wonder why?

From their website for entering students:

He scored a 33 on his ACT, so that might help.

He has an unweighted 4.0 GPA and a weighted GPA above 4.0 because of the extra, 5th, point that can be earned in AP classes.

I work on and off with two young grads from the School of Mines. Both of them are pretty sharp and say they really liked going to school up in Golden.

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Another great "mines" college is the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

If your son wants to be in the engineering fields, the "mines" schools are at the top of the list for getting good jobs. No way I would send my child to a "state u" instead unless it was on an athletic scholarship.

What are you Incinerating? 😆

We visited SDSM, but he didn't care for Rapid City, so he opted not to apply. They are recruiting him, but I don't think that he has any interest in going to school in SD.

He could go to K-State for almost no out of pocket expenses on merit based scholarships or he could go toe Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri S&T , or Nebraska for less than $20K per year out of pocket. I'm not going to think about funding college at CSM, Colorado, Illinois, or Purdue until they actually accept him into their engineering program.

Id say do to KSU. And, for God's sake, don't let him be a Jayhawk!!

KSU is no academic slouch, and the bigger factor for post-grad work or employment is how hard he works and his grades. Come out with no debt is HUGE.

I don’t post much but am a CSM alumni. Starting from the baseline that engineering school is tough curriculum at any university, CSM is tilted toward the extreme end of the difficulty spectrum. That’s from my experience as a student and also being involved In recruiting and hiring talent from a number of university’s. Does the your son have an idea of which engineering disciple he wants to pursue? If your son is interested in discussing this in detail send me a PM and we can set up further discussion.

I worked with a few School of Mines engineers and they were top notch. But I could say that about a bunch of engineering schools. McNeese State in Lake Charles may not be so highly regarded, but I worked in Louisiana for a few years and came to feel the same about them. Over the course of my engineering career I came pretty much to the conclusion that if a young person wants to get a quality education he can get it at just about any accredited school.

A youngster like that? Sounds like a good warmup roadtrip.

I didn't go there, I went the Navy route instead but Golden CO is where I was born. I know several people that went there including a cousin. Top notch school. There is a reason it is regarded as highly as it is. One of my cousins got a mechanical engineering degree there and he is now a VP for Treetop Apple Juice.

My nephew is a Professional Mechanical Engineer with a big international firm located in Denver, he also does the new hires. I asked him if he had to do many days on the road for career days recruiting prospects. He said No ,I spend 2 days a year getting everyone I need, I said Colorado School of Mines ? he laughed and said I only hire from SDSM&T they are the best prepared graduates in the country. You asked for imput you got it. MB

SD Mines does an impressive job, especially for being the Second Best Engineering School in South Dakota. #GoJacks

Where did your nephew go?

Colorado School of Mines is the # 1 engineering school in the U.S. Georgia Tech is # 2, My Granddaughter chose Georgia Tech. Bio-Engineering, because of the National Swimming and Diving Center, she is a big time diver, and a 4.0 student, and she is from Colorado.


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Wouldn’t make any difference to me unless it was a new grad looking for their first job. Then, maybe school would matter, and in some cases the first job can set the career trajectory.

When I review resumes for experienced engineers I don’t care what school they went to. I’m looking at experience, qualifications, drive, work history and expectations. 100 employee consulting firm, other outfits see it different I’m sure.

Personally I’d send my kid to the in-state ABET accredited option or nearly free out of state with scholarships.

Does MIT know this?

Interesting, US News & W.R. has CSoM ranked at #46 in the nation for undergrad engineering and #59 for graduate engineering. MIT is #1.