<p>Wearymachine, I’m also an RPI grad and I’m with you. US News uses GRE scores as a factor in the grad rankings but doesn’t use SAT scores in the undergrad rankings. Let’s face it, students learn from each other. I found it very useful to have super smart students around me during problem sets / study groups who were able to break down a concept I was have trouble with. I did the same for other people when the chance came up. So I think RPI is getting hosed to some degree. </p>
<p>Despite the rankings I think RPI is in great shape. The incoming class of 2014 should have mean SAT of 1375 or so based on test scores of the admitted students. If you combine this data with all the new facilitiies built over the past decade, I think we are quite competitive with the nation’s great engineering schools.</p>