RPI Medal?

Ranza123
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 01:39:14 +0000

I received the RPI medal last year as well. I applied to RPI just for the heck of it; I had zero interest but they waived the application fee and on the common app RPI doesn’t ask for any additional essays so I had nothing to lose. I did make sure to include my RPI medal on my common app under the list of “honors.” While I cannot speak as an admissions officer, my guess is that other colleges look favorably upon it because it shows that you are a desirable candidate and at least one college already wants you. You also may be able to use it as a financial aid bargaining tool later (didn’t work for me).

For the record, I got into RPI and was offered $15K per semester rather than per year, which was a nice bonus. But I really had no interest in attending so I will now be attending Cornell University.