<p>another thing about RPI…i’m pretty sure their workload is comparable to that of MIT…i went to RPI and it’s freakin’ hard…some terms aren’t too bad…some are pretty bad…a couple were unbearable…and back in HS, i was the best math student in my grade (got an 800 on my math SAT…won AMC 12 in my grade…had A’s in math and physics)…i graduated RPI with a 3.2…</p>
<p>reason i say it’s comparable to MIT is that i’ve noticed that MIT students are 25% stronger than RPI students…so like if you’re at the 75th percentile at RPI…you’d be around dead average at MIT…one of my friends went to MIT and he said average test grades are usually in the 70s…at RPI, the average test grades were usually in the 60s (sometimes lower, sometimes higher)…so that’s my basis…</p>
<p>anyways…enough defending RPI as tier 1 (it ****es me off when people who do not know any better call it tier 2)…but i think for your son, Lehigh is another great option…:)</p>