”Early Decision is a commitment. Because you are making a commitment to WPI, we are making a commitment to you; starting with students joining WPI in fall of 2025, all students admitted under an Early Decision application plan will be offered a minimum merit-based scholarship of $20,000 per academic year. “
So this isn’t even news, really, they just upped it 5K.
My kid get 23K merit, they applied EA, was deferred, and get in during the ED2 decision round (didn’t even have to wait until RD came out).
This is an old thread and I’m not sure how Fiske knows (who is giving the data….but obviously we all can make assumptions) - but perhaps if someone has a fiske guide or checks one out at the library or has access - it’s always an interesting topic.
I remember back to my Syracuse days - we always said GW, UMD, and BU - of course, that was forever ago. For Newhouse, it was Northwestern.
Yeah, though I have to say both my kids will have applied to WPI and neither will have applied to MIT and WPI will be one of my kids likely schools - MIT is SUCH a reach for most kids! I am curious if this is still the case (rest make LOADS of sense to me).
FYI - my HS class of 22 kid is at WPI now. He got $20k annual merit plus the $5k one time for the junior year project (I know things have changed with the money for that, but I don’t remember how.)
WPI ended up as the most expensive of the schools at which he got merit (CWRU, RPI, Pitt and it was more than Purdue, where he didn’t get merit but the starting cost was low) but it wasn’t significantly more than CWRU or RPI and was, by far, the best fit for him.
Should anyone reading this thread be interested in WPI please feel free to message me and I’d be happy to talk about my son’s experience.
