RPI admissions... how hard is it?

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<p>i’m really interested in RPI but i noticed in the past couple years their admissions has gotten alot harder!. A 2007 college book had their admission rate at 80% or so, ( i guess it was published in 2006) and the following year’s statistics were at 67%…</p>

<p>would a 2200+ SAT score with 5’s in physics, stat, chem and calc BUT a “laundry list” of EC’s be enough to consider RPI a match/safety?</p>

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<p>Once Newsweek declared RPI a “new Ivy”, the number of applicants shot up. We won’t really know until early next year when they post their common dataset information if the stats of their accepted students increased.</p>

<p>Hard to answer your question without knowing your GPA, rank.</p>

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<p>yes admission difficulty has significantly increased, with acceptance rate projected in the mid to low 40 percentages, down from 67%, which was down from 80% the year before that. </p>

<p>Stats increased from that jump from 80% to 67%, so it is likely they will increase yet again, but if your GPA is in line with your 2200+ SAT score (around 4.1-4.4) you should have absolutely no problem getting in.</p>

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<p>thanks, yea my gpa should be close to 4.0 (uw) at that time.
another small question, how do schools view unbalanced sat scores? my CR score is mid 600’s but my other two scores are both 800ish</p>

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<p>RPI is still surprising easy to get into compared to the MITs and CMUs of the world. Soon I bet admin drops below 50%, 4 yrs tops. I actually hope it doesn’t, and it remains an opportunity for those who want a great eng educ on a beautiful hill-side campus in an underrated small city.</p>

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<p>RPI is easy to get into next to MIT (if MIT is a reach, RPI is a match)…but i think CMU and RPI are sorta at the same level with how hard they are to get into…maybe CMU is a slight bit harder…but CMU and RPI are pretty comparable…</p>

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<p>3 years too late.</p>

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<p>ahaha i was just looking up RPI posts…i just post wherever i feel like posting…</p>

<p>wow i was a senior back when this post went on…trippy…</p>

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<p>4.0/2200? No problem!! I’d call it a safety.</p>