<p>My friend is in pre-med/bio and she got a half ride scholarship.</p>
<p>I guess i might be getting 0 merit aid? :( On my acceptance package it said we are calculating your merit aid. Maybe that is a standard message? I am a bit dissappointed. Maybe there is still time to get it in the mail?</p>
<p>ND , D's letter said the same thing and about two weeks later she did get a merit letter. Don't lose hope! I don't think it would say that if the merit was going to be 0.</p>
<p>Hmmm, did your online status page say anything about 'calculating merit aid?' I still haven't gotten any kind of acceptance package in the mail (though i did get a letter from the engineering department saying congrats, lol).</p>
<p>Here's a question though, does anyone know if its too late to still be considered for an interdisciplinary program? I thought I remembered reading that you had to specify it on your application but I haven't been able to find that again. Anyone know?</p>
<p>ehiunno and ndjake: The mail is slow due to the holidays. My daughter just received her acceptance - it was dated Dec. 28th and mailed Jan. 2 and she received it on the 5th. </p>
<p>As far as changing majors, it might be wise to send an email to admissions. My daughter is interested in one of the interdisciplinary majors and they recommended that she apply for that because there are waitlists for some of them (I know PDI has a waitlist). They told her it would be easier to switch out later if she changed her mind than to try to get in later. Good luck to both of you.</p>
<p>Palermo, thanks for the information, Ill be waiting for my package. It's not that i really want to change my major, its that comp sci isn't offered in the engineering department and I still want to have that as an option. I'll call on Monday.</p>
<p>Computer Science is not an engineering, so obviously it's not offered in the engineering department. What exactly is it that you want to do? First, if you applied in engineering and wanted to switch to comp sci it would be really easy once you were there. Or do you want to do one of the engineering majors and a comp sci major, because there is a computer science/computer systems engineering dual already set up. </p>
<p>Let me know, I can probably answer your question.</p>
<p>RPIsoxfan, I know comp sci isnt an engineering, but from what I have seen a lot of schools offer computer science/computer engineering in the engineering department.</p>
<p>I didn't see anything about the computer science/system dual program, but I'll go check it out. When it really comes down to it the top thing I want to do it electrical engineering, but I do not want to be totally shut out of majoring in say computer science or physics if i enter in the engineering department, do see what I am saying?</p>
<p>The main thing that would be a problem is the amount of credits required to major in both EE and another major. On their website you can see all the classes you need to take for majors in their course catalogue. Page 200, shows all the requirements for an EE degree. RPI does have Computer and Systems Engineering, which is an engineering degree closer to computer science. I personally am doing an EE & Comp Sys Dual degree. On the bottom of page 205 you can see the dual degrees, the ones listed are EE and applied physics, EE and Comp Sys (degree I'm working on), EE and Electrical Power Engineer, Computer Systems and Computer Science. </p>
<p>Actually I was able to find the website with the curriculum's if you'd like to look at it. A lot of the core classes will be the same anyway. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.</p>
<p>Thanks soxfan, thats a lot of help and exactly what I am looking for. The EE/applied physics and EE/CSE look really interesting.</p>
<p>For any of those programs you could wait until you got there to declare. I started out as CSE and added the EE dual the spring of my sophmore year.</p>
<p>Soxfan, thats good to know, I just didn't want to get shut out of those options.</p>
<p>anyways, we have gotten off topic, any more acceptances?</p>
<p>well, i think i got accepted....lol its wierd right?</p>
<p>I received a mail today titled <em>chat online with Rensselaer students</em></p>
<p>In the mail, it congratulated me for being accepted to rensselaer and informed me of the chat online days..... Is this what you all got, or is this a mistake on their part? Im havin mixed emotions of happiness and doubt.</p>
<p>I thought they were meant to send me an official email or check the deicison online. When I went to my status checking site, there was nothing that looks like an acceptance word there... I am really confused.</p>
<p>When you log on to look at the list of required items, is there some new wording like this over the list?</p>
<p>"Status Update</p>
<p>An update to your application was posted (Month-Day-Year)</p>
<p>View Update >>"</p>
<p>If so, click on the "view update" link and a letter should appear. This is how my son first read his acceptance letter. He then received an acceptance packet in the mail a week or so later containing the same letter.</p>
<p>Maddy - I recieved the same e-mail but I was accepted sometime ago. I found out my decision on the status check website and got a acceptance letter in the mail.</p>
<p>JDasmom: Ok they just posted the update today! lol thanks a lot. I was accepted.... YAY. Did you guys own come with a celebration song? lol thats wierd. </p>
<p>Anyways, did they tell you guys about any scholarship award online because I did not see anything that looks like it there. Does that mean I did not qualify. Then that would suck!</p>
<p>Congratulations Maddy! Yes, the online acceptance letter plays some sort of song when you view it.</p>
<p>My son did not get any information about scholarships on line. A couple weeks after he saw his acceptance on the computer he received a letter from RPI which told him that his merit award scholarship "was in the process of being calculated". This letter also told him to file the FAFSA form if he felt would need need-based financial aid as well. I think this is a form letter that is sent out to a lot of accepted students. It's been a few weeks and still no more word on financial aid but that will come in time. </p>
<p>Look out for your acceptance packet in the mail. My son also received a T-shirt and a current course catalog book from RPI in today's mail. (He had received another letter from RPI recently offering him a free T-shirt - he had to go onto their website and tell them what size to send). It's a nice shirt!</p>
<p>i got accepted on Jan 1st and it sd the calculating merit award in my acceptance letter...i recieved a scholarship packet today...
$15000 renewable each year....but im bummed bc its not enough for me</p>
<p>Monicahere, be sure to file a FAFSA that gets sent to RPI. Depending on your family's expected contribution amount (EFC), RPI may come up with a need-based award package of grants, loans and work study to go with that scholarship to make up the difference between RPI's cost of attendance and your family's calculated contribution amount. The merit award may be only one piece of your financial aid package.</p>
<p>thanks alot jdasmom, Well, I would be expecting a mail anytime from now. Although I am not expecting it soon, since I leave so far away. By the way, was the package through "DHL" or snail mail?</p>
<p>P.S. I want a T-shirt too... :)</p>