RPI, WPI, or Mines?

Mandalore
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:18:48 +0000

I am a current student at WPI and I also would love to go to MIT for graduate school (although a long time from now). I applied to both places for college since they are great schools, but WPI is great for academics and has great professors with a small and close community.

It really depends on what you plan to study, what is your major by the way? Some graduate programs require the GRE and GRE subject tests, but some like some engineering disciplines require only the GRE.

If you want to study Math, Physics, Chemistry etc. you will have to take their respective GRE subject tests and MIT expects very high percentiles for those tests for grad school.

WPI is project-based which has pros and cons to it, one of the cons is that you might need to study a little extra for the subject tests but thats mostly it. A pro is that our projects and research looks great on grad school applications.

Hope this helps, I could also use some advice on this topic.