Early Decision, engineering, and Scholarship

mkuremsky
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:18:47 +0000

One of our criteria in deciding ED was that Tech takes such a HIGH number of out of state applicants ED vs RD. At our time of application I believe they accepted 70 percent of out of state apps that came in ED. If we waited till RD, they only accept 35 percent of those who are out of state. So if money isn’t a problem and it’s really, really where you want to go, you should absolutely do ED because of your out of state status. Feel free to check with admissions on that, but we learned that fact in an info session. Personally I believe they must not use as much merit with the ED because they obviously know they have you. I was disappointed for my DS as he was clearly eligible based upon great academic results and service/athletic participation. But when you see how happy they are and how successful once there, somehow it doesn’t matter as much.