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<p>From the Cornell Engineering site:</p>
<p>"What are the minimum SAT scores required to be admitted to the College of Engineering as a freshman?</p>
<p>The College of Engineering does not have a minimum SAT, since the standardized test scores are simply one aspect of an applicant’s preparation. However, we do know that of the admitted students in the class, at least 75% scored between 720-800 on their SAT math and approximately half of the class scored better than 700 on the SAT verbal."</p>
<p>Again, I have strong family ties to RPI, but I could list more prominent engineers in any one generation at Cornell than the fine list posted by the RPI adherent, including many, many more who parlayed their Cornell education into not only excellence in the field itself, but Fortune 500 CEO’s, etc. RPI is terrific (and used to have a heck of a hockey team) but there really is a much closer link in quality between MIT and Cornell than RPI and Cornell.
10-02-2007 11:56 PM </p>
<p>Redcrimblue, the list I posted was only a small portion of what I could have. Anyway, I think we are splitting hairs at this point. I have great respect for Cornell and think it is an awesome school. I think your statement about MIT/Cornell/RPI may have been true 10 years ago but not neccesarily today. </p>
<p>I think if you look at finanicial resources, student quality, faculty quality, quality of facilities, history of alumni accomplishment, RPI most closely mirrors
places like CMU, Georgia Tech, Michigan, etc. These places have been grouped in overall quality with Cornell and there is no reason that RPI shouldn’t be as well. </p>
<p>When Dr. Shirley Jackson (lifetime member of the MIT Corporation) took over the RPI presidency in 1998 the stated goal was simply this: “To position Rensselaer not only as an excellent university but as one of the world’s great technological universities”. </p>
<p>Everything that RPI has done since then has been through that context. When I look and see that applications have doubled in just the last two years, SAT scores have jumped from 1320 to 1337 just last year alone, the world-class facilities that I mentioned earlier have been built, New $115M athletic village that just broke ground and massive capital campiaign I believe that the goal is being reached. </p>
<p>Bottom line: Cornell, Carnegie are great but I think that those schools and RPI are interchangable for engineering.</p>