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The numbers In the grand scheme of things, Rose News Editor the top 10 taking the number 5 mentioned earlier were calculated college application fees are mar- spot with 73% of students accept- by taking that number of applica- ginal compared to the enormous Have you ever wondered why you ed choosing to attend, followed by tions (depending on which cate- mountain of cash colleges like have to pay to apply to college and Purdue ranking 47 with 49% en- gory) and multiplying by the re- Rose Hulman ask for in tuition. where that money goes? Michael rollment, and Rose Hulman rank- spective college application fee. Taking into account the same en- Brown, a Research Analyst shines ing 478 with 21% enrollment. This data does not take into ac- rollment data, and assuming that the light on what colleges actually count special cases or waved fees. each student pays $60,000 per do with your money. After analyz- To specify further, yes colleges do The only truly accurate data in year, Rose Hulman makes about ing data from LendEDU and the make revenue from applications, this study is the total applications, $130 million every year. This does Integrated Postsecondary Educa- whether the prospective student total accepted, and total students not take into account scholarships tion Data System for which colleg- decides to enroll or not, but there enrolled. or other cases. es make the most revenue from declined applications, total appli- All in all college is expensive, and cations, and admissions yeild, the there are many great people who results were stunning. provide you the education you need to succeed when you gradu- For revenue of declined applica- ate. These great people need tions only, Rose-Hulman ranks some sort of income in order to 462 making more than $66,000 continue serving the student off of 4,241 applications. Surpris- body. Especially at a school like ingly, this isn’t all that high com- Rose Hulman, who’s students pared to some other schools. MIT have an average starting salary of and Purdue ranked 42 and 44 $71,080, (rose-hulman.edu) you respectively each making about get what you pay for. If Rose Hul- $1.3 million for declined applica- man wasn’t worth every penny tions alone. Rose Hulman did not they asked for, it certainly would- make the top 500 list for revenue Rose Hulman is on the Common App! Visit https://www.commonapp.org/ n't be one of the top ranked col- of total applications, however MIT school/rose-hulman-institute-technology for more info leges for 20 years in a row. was ranked 88 with $1.4 million and Purdue 24 with $2.9 million. Photo from commonapp.org Page 3: Notre Dame Cathedral Fire The Rose Thorn Page 4: Captain Marvel/Shazam Review Page 5: Beer Review Meet Tuesdays Page 6: Pro/Cons of Living on Campus Page 7: Sports! O259 5:00pm Aidan Moulder will open every day at 4 o’clock, there is no effect on your institute Members of the eSports Club will and will close at midnight on week- data usage. be granted additional free hours Opinions Editor days and 2 on weekends. Students for practice, meetings, and events. will be allowed 8 free hours per What about consoles? This past Wednesday, April 17th, I week, but they may pay a few extra Consoles are, as of right now, a sec- What if my floor wants a con- attended an open forum regarding dollars for additional time. If need- ondary goal for the lounge. While venient place to play some- the institute’s plans for a gaming ed, the above structure can be al- titles like Super Smash Bros. Ulti- thing together? and eSports lounge. The forum, tered based on actual usage statis- mate are immensely popular on Good news: the lounge will be hosted by Kyle Rhodes and Jordan tics. campus, that popularity is the ex- available for reservation, and will Barrett, allowed students the op- act reason why Kyle and Jordan serve as another campus event portunity to weigh in on the cur- What games can we play in are not currently considering pur- space. rent plan for the lounge, as well as the lounge? chasing consoles for the lounge. get their questions answered. Not The lounge will provide a collection They have noticed that many stu- Will there be student worker many students were able to attend of PC games popular in eSports dents already have consoles, espe- positions? the event due to the career fair, but competitions and on Twitch. The cially the Nintendo Switch. Since Yes, and there may be summer Kyle was able to answer some gen- initial offerings provided in Kyle’s so many people play games like jobs that allow for running test eral questions and provide a rough presentation include: Smash on their floors or elsewhere drives of the PC hardware once it is outline for the attendees. Call of Duty: Black Ops around campus frequently, Kyle installed. Battlefield V and Jordan do not see a need to Why is Rose-Hulman looking PUBG buy additional consoles for the Lastly, I would like to thank Kyle into eSports? lounge. However, in the future, and Jordan for their time. I, for Gaming is becoming significantly Overwatch they would still like to cater to the one, am very excited to see where more popular with gamers and non Rocket League console crowd, especially because the eSports Lounge will go, and -gamers with the rise of streaming Madden 19 the consoles maintained by Rec where they can take it! If you have websites like Twitch. With this rise FIFA 19 Sports see frequent use during any suggestions for the institute to in popularity, Kyle sees an oppor- NBA 2K19 large events in the SRC. consider for the lounge, you can tunity to attract prospective stu- Tekken leave feedback on a Google Form dents to the institute. Street Fighter What if I’m a member of the located on My Rose-Hulman. eSports Club? What’s the plan for the Dragon Ball FighterZ lounge? Minecraft The lounge will most likely be put in the old C Store space. The cur- One student present at the event rent floor plan for the lounge has made a case for racing simulators room for about 20-30 computer (and I personally advocated for stations, and there is a possibility Halo when it becomes available for of having separate rooms for con- PC). I asked Kyle and Jordan if stu- sole gaming as well as Twitch dents could bring their own games, streaming. Each PC will be a high- as I have several on an external end pre-built gaming PC, such as hard drive, and they informed me an HP Omen or a Dell Alienware. that a Steam app could be added to Kyle and Jordan are working with the eBash client, which would ena- eBash Terre Haute to come up with ble the user to install their own a final design, as well as for the fi- games to play. This brought up an- nal hardware decision, as eBash other question, however. software will be installed on the Will downloading my own computers to manage videogame Rose Hulman’s eSports club official logo. Already popular among the licenses and provide a host of other games count against my 30 useful features. GB data cap? gaming society at Rose, the new eSports lounge may pull in more partici- Thankfully, no. The eBash account pants for future tournaments. you will use in the lounge isn’t The lounge will be open late in the Photo From RH eSports Facebook Page afternoon and into the evening. 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