NDSU does a horrible job of recruiting compared to other colleges. We just went through it and NDSU was very sub par (makes me puke a little but UND kicked them). My daughter is crazy organized with great grades (over 4.0) and very active so it was not a not qualified thing. She actually had a power point presentation for us of pros cons for colleges around the country. The best for contact with her was probably Arizona state. Literature, emails, letters, calls you name it they did it. Didn't end up going there though, went to the college that had a great recruiting event for her major, a whole Saturday of meeting with professors, them showing and talking about the different classes and equipment and tracks of classes offered. Multiple possible employers that were not just local but national had booths and talked about career options. Campus tours were very informative and not just fluff of, there is this building there is that building blah blah blah. She told them her goals and they talked with her and sold themselves on how they can get her there. Before my wife and daughter flew home she said this is where I want to go.


Compared that to a friend who's kid (crazy smart off the charts grades), parent went to NDSU, lots of connections to NDSU, was leaning towards going there. Went to a recruitment event and it was very impersonal. Hadn't decided what part of engineering field he wanted to go into so was looking for information. NDSU had a few tables set up for different engineering tracks, but they had to work to barely understand the people manning the tables and it was not informative or helpful. Went on tour of campus and it was a here is this building here is that building walk. Didn't break them up into areas of interest and the kid and family were never even shown anything remotely close to engineering related. They did show them a dorm, yep they took them to Weible of all the dorms on campus you show off Weible, cmon man. The kid does not attend NDSU.