Trying hard to get into Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Applying to College
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<p>Hello all. This is my first post here and I’m glad to have become a member.</p>

<p>My name is Jacob , I am currently an undergraduate at ITT Technical Institute. Well atleast for the next two weeks until I graduate.</p>

<p>Now I have no high school experience. Obtained my GED quickly and moved right into ITT Tech to pursue my Associates in Applied Science in Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology. I had a lot of things going wrong in my life and didn’t prioritize school highly enough. Fortunately I snapped out of it and started getting very good grades. I will finish about a 3.0 - 3.1 </p>

<p>I have also worked up in Global Foundries working on their electrical systems in the past, not sure if this would help my chance.</p>

<p>My question is what do they base their admissions on mostly, how much does GPA factor in or is my GPA not small enough to worry about ?</p>

<p>I’m even willing to save up and retake courses to boost my GPA to get in. I also have strong letters of recommendation.</p>

<p>Any help would be much appreciated</p>

<p>Thank you
Jacob</p>

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<p>You’re not a traditional applicant with your IIT associates degree. A telephone inquiry is probably your best and most efficient route. Good luck.</p>

<p>A post to this forum might help as well
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/non-traditional-students/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/non-traditional-students/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’m not sure what you mean by “non-traditional”</p>

<p>Could you please explain?</p>

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<p>non-traditional in that you have your associates versus a HS graduate hoping to enter as a freshman.</p>

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<p>Oh I see. Hopefully that would work in my favor. I’m trying to get credit for my classes I’ve taken and then do another two years so I would have a bachelors or masters in electrical engineering</p>

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<p>If you watch itt tech commercials, they clearly say their classes won’t transfer to other places. The for profit schools aren’t looked too highly on. </p>

<p>This doesn’t mean you wont get in; you just wont get any transfer credit (most likely),</p>

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<p>Well I heard RPI was different but I’m not sure. Also before I admitted I did see that but I thought it meant transferring like while you are still an undergraduate. I always thought when you had your AS you could go to another school and take two years of their bachelor level classes and then obtain a bachelors. I should have done more research :/</p>

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<p>Yeah, just call RPI and ask.</p>

<p>In case you are not aware, RPI is one of the best schools in America and your ITT credits will not transfer since it is not really an accredited school. It is even stated on their own website, commercial and wiki. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools pretty much only accredits ITT and similar for profit schools.</p>