However do note that I could be mistaken about the GPA cut off for most schools.
I know it is the case for MIT, CalTech, Princeton, Duke, Columbia, Stanford, Brown, Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Harvard, Berkeley etc. schools (as I do attend one of them and have some friends from some of the other schools I listed) that GPA does not matter. There are even special interview process in Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon (not sure about Google) that interview select schools regardless of GPA (simply cause of college name to fill the implicit ‘quota’ per year).
From experience though, I really doubt the importance of GPA for the industry though. But then again, I am not really knowledgeable outside of the peers I have heard from. I do know it is very possible to get into full time offers in top firms from UCBerkeley with a GPA even from the upper 1s. This is definitely not the norm by any measure but it does somewhat reveal how much GPA actually counts towards the first job.
CS first job seems mostly through brand name of the school or connection (which you seem to have the latter so the full scholarship might be a far safer choice). However, after the first job, the influence of the brand name school should quickly disappear anyways.
Anyways, RPI is a GREAT school. I have a friend who goes there. Much respects to RPI. Though personally, I cannot imagine staying in a school for 4 years with uneven boy girl ratio. But that’s just personal preference so ya…