I left work at 3pm yesterday and headed south towards the Cape. Normally I love going to the cape, even for college fairs, but I'm not such a fan of driving at night when its raining. The fair itself was fine, UCCRVTHS is a tech school with a culinary department, so the refreshments for the college reps were delicious and i had about 56 cups of coffee. As far as attendance goes, it was less than impressive. The students who i did talk to were very nice and very interested in furthering their education, which was refreshing.
The most interesting part, however, was who i was sharing a table with. I had never heard of Olin College of Engineering, its right in Needham, next to Babson. This is a very new school(graduated its first class in June 2006), a very small school (300 students), and is full of the aggressively intelligent (average GPA= 4.3/perfect SAT's). The school was created and funded by the Olin foundation. Its completely funded...any student who is accepted there gets an automatic presidential scholarship (free tuition). State of the art everything technological, and no one on the faculty has a degree less than a PhD.
To say the least, i was floored. This is a school who puts such faith in its students capabilities that they are willing to completely fund their education. Whew. Check out their website.
...I do still love Newbury.
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