RPI, what are my chances?

jiffyjeff
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 05:03:48 +0000

I really want to go to RPI. Its close, small and a good Computery school that is much easier to get into than MIT or Carnegie Mellon. RPI at this point in time has got to be my top choice and I am planning to do ED if my chances are looking good, but I have no idea (hence why I am posting this). I am personally interested in RPI’s school of GSAS and I have a pretty darn good portfolio in my eyes for applying. But I’m worried I am being optimistic where in reality I have no chance. I’m really just curious what my real chances for getting in are. My stuff is below, any help is really appreciated. Thanks so much for reading.

Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: None
School: public, a lot of people get into ivy league’s.

GPA (W) 9-11: 3.2
However my GPA Junior year was a 3.7
while Sophomore and Freshman year were much, much lower, really killing me:(

ACT: 30, taking once more in September maybe get it a little higher.

AP scores:
AP Comp Sci - 3
AP Bio - 3

Extra Curricular Activities:

Created Electronic Music Production discord chat (basically a modern IRC chat room with a few thousand people in it as of now)

Moderator of Pixel Art discord chat (again basically a modern IRC chat, this one has about a 1000 people in it)

A solid 350+ hours of animation experience mostly with pixel art, but some 3D animation

Another solid 400+ hours producing music, playing piano and drumming (in total)

Currently in development (been in development since august of last year) of a indie game with my friends who are way smarter than me (one currently in MIT and another most likely going)

Experienced web developer, I made and host my portfolio site on my server

I made a neat little robot that solves the tower of Hanoi as a little side project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCBApoYbF0I) ← if that was confusing, it was just a fun robotics project lol

Around 100+ hours of VFX work in After Effects

Developed a discord bot API with a coding friend

I just generally have a lot of programming experience from just a lot of projects that either failed or were successful. I’ve been coding since freshman year on my own in the higher level languages like Java, Python and JavaScript.

Thanks again!