From the view book…
KGCOE. SAT Middle 50% 1460-1320. 2019 accepted applicants. (Accepted not enrolled)
ACT 34-30
Does anyone know if this is how RIT usually does their decisions? We haven’t heard anything yet so I’m wondering if that means my son will be rejected.
DS received a likely letter and also got admitted this week.
Engineering major
SAT 1410
GPA 3.7 unweighted 4.2 weighted
Strong EC with leadership
Good letters of recommendation
DD applied RD, received likely letter and accepted 2 days ago. Presidential merit award today.
Comp Sci/3D Design
SAT 1550
GPA 3.96 UW/4.8 W
Long term ECs w/ leadership
Traveled to major specific workshop last fall and submitted art portfolio.
@mrglubglub is the presidential a full scholarship? Congratulations!!!
@mrglubglub was the merit email or snail mail?
D got email to check portal again today and received a Presidential Scholarship for $18.5K per year. Very pleased and moves RIT up the list into serious consideration - but still waiting on decisions from 4 more colleges as well as full financial breakdown for a few more. Its a long journey!
Daughter received presidential $19,000.
Received an email on presidential scholarship as well as status update on the portal. $22.5k/year. Congrats to others who received it as well. Cheers.
Interesting. RIT Tuition for students entering fall 2020 is $50, 564 whereas for those entering fall 2019 was $45,244. Do they think somehow everyone entering Fall 2020 has won a lottery. That is an increase of ~12%.
Hi, below is my stats and ecs that got me in! Hope this helps!
Target RIT School / First Choice Major: Human-Centered Computing, admitted with presidential scholarship
SAT I (breakdown): 1400, 700 Reading& Writing, 700math
ACT (breakdown): n/a
SAT II: didn’t submit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8/4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): didn’t submit
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: ap phyiscs c, ap stat, ap english lit, ap calc bc, entrepreneurship, teacher’s aid
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
NCWIT: national certificate of distinction,
Questbridge finalist,
1st place in Connecticut for Future Business Leaders of America in game design,
- Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Girls Who Code(president), Future Business Leaders of America(Historian), created own online art business selling art and apparel, posting my artworks on social media
Job/Work Experience: finding undervalued websites for acquisition
Volunteer/Community service: ~150 hours total teaching kids how to draw
Summer Activities: made viral Instagram art ads that reached 600k+ people on multiple occasions
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8/10 talked about my obsession with social media growing up and how that positively impacted me
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): idk never saw them
- Other
Country (if international applicant): domestic
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: poor lol
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): underprivileged, immigrant, single mom, english was my second language
- Reflection
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
I got the RIT Computing medal junior year and I think being on the mailing list definitely helped! I did ecs on things I cared about and basically whatever I wanted. Didn’t do things solely to “look good”
General Comments:
Don’t underestimate the importance of doing what you love even if it’s just playing videogames or posting memes on social media because you could always “justify” it in your essays to get a unique perspective!!
The cost for 2018 & 2019 is identical on RIT website. It seems that the cost for 2019 is wrong.
I wrote down room and board and tuition as about 60k. Is this ballpark?
Tuition $50,564, Fees $676, Double Room $8,140, 10-Meal plan $5,836, plus books, etc. So about $65k
@OldManPhD Thank you!!
RIT increased tuition by 12% for the class entering fall 2020. One of the attractive things about RIT was their tuition which was 5-10k less than other privates. With this jump they’re now that much different.
I got my acceptance on the feb 3 and a likely letter Jan 26. I was awarded the presidential scholarship ( 19K).
I applied for the computer science program
Stats:
SAT:1400 (630 R/W 770 M)
GPA: 99.04 (weighted)
Rank: top 5%
AP classes: world, US history, stats, psychology, computer science A, language composition, and literature, calc AB
Got InTo Engineering with a Presidential Scholarship 15k/Year
WGPA 3.86 SAT 1340
Did you receive a likely letter?
Yes I did.