Will I get in? And if I do, will I get merit aid?

True doschicos and joedoe, your statements are technically correct but my frustration with what sunnydream said was when he was advising people ‘NOT’ to visit. Here’s his exact wording:

By putting that out there, they may be a marginally acceptable student that may be on the fence about visiting that takes his advice.
The reason why it irks me is because I really believe RPI can be an amazing life changing decision. Believe me, my choice was financially based and although I had RIT, CWU, CMU to choose from who’ve accepted me, as an alternate choice if RPI rejected me, I would not have been able to afford them, so it would have been my safety schools which are no where near the quality of all these named above.
I have lower than average grades and RPI accepted me, if they didn’t I would have been stuck at my local low-level public.