<p>does anyone know how to decline your admission offer? i couldn't find anything on RPI's website or in anything they sent me. thanks for any responses!</p>
<p>You should have it in the pile of things RPI directly post mailed to you. There’s a sheet of paper saying whether you want to enroll or not. If that doesn’t work, call them and say you want to decline their offer.</p>
<p>lol I can’t find it either and I’m pretty sure I have everything right here ><</p>
<p>On the admitted students website, there is a link to the online enrollment form - you can decline admission on that.</p>
<p>Hmm… we can’t seen to find the “decline” option. Has anybody successfully declined online this year?</p>
<p>Write them a letter in the mail - before May 1st - if you don’t pay the $500 - you’ve declined anyway!</p>
<p>I called the Admissions office today, and they said applicants can decline via email <a href=“mailto:-admissions@rpi.edu”>-admissions@rpi.edu</a>. </p>
<p>(Yes, I know that not replying by May 1st has the same result. But out of consideration to waitlisted students, it seemed earlier was better. )</p>
<p>It makes me a little sad to be leaving the RPI threads. I enjoyed “meeting” the helpful parents and students here. Best wishes to you all!</p>
<p>is your student not enrolling at RPI? where is he/she enrolling? You have been very helpful as well.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you and your S, colorado mom.</p>
<p>Sorry that you won’t be hanging around here in the future.</p>
<p>I too am curious where your S is going. I’m sure it is a great school.</p>
<p>DD is in the same position. I’ll make sure she emails admissions. See you all in other parts of CC. </p>
<p>(BTW: She’s attending the Naval Academy)</p>
<p>osdad -Naval Academy … excellent! </p>
<p>So far our “Not” list is easiest to explain. Not MIT (rejected, but that was OK). Not CO School of Mines (too limited, to close to home). Not RPI because limited like Mines but too much more expensive (the only offerred $10K for what I thought were almost unbeatable stats). Not Olin… unless he is fortunate enough to get off the waiting list.</p>
<p>Still “on the list” is Harvey Mudd (another favorite, but very intense and no scholarship), Case (great scholarship), Carnegie Mellon and Northeastern (great co-ops… probably most likely choice at this point). Also CU Boulder, but he realllllly wants to go further than 20 mintues from home.</p>
<p>I am a high school senior that was also accepted to RPI. I decided instead to go to Carnegie Mellon because it is such a prestigious institution. If your son needs advice, I’d suggest Harvey Mudd or Carnegie Mellon because having a degree from either of those schools means a lot out in the workforce nowadays. I really wanted to go to Northeastern for a long time, and I was accepted there, but then I realized what a great education I would get from Carnegie in comparison to Northeastern. It’s a great school but a bunch of friends of mine that go there (they’re in the honors program) and they claim that their classes are easy. The students that go there do LOVE it but Carnegie is such a great institution that it would definitely be worth the money. Also if he’s not totally set on what he wants to do, Carnegie has a wider range of majors to choose from. I hope my advice helps! Good luck to him!</p>
<p>@zulusurf:
Your story matches mine so exactly that it’s surreal. I was also accepted to RPI, Northeastern, and CMU; I also was pretty set on going to Northeastern, but I found CMU much more impressive when I went to visit. The campus and facilities and people are all brilliant, and I’m looking forward to my time there.</p>
<p>How does a high school senior know which schools “mean a lot in the workplace”?</p>
<p>@OldEmg I was wondering the same thing…</p>
<p>rpi is pretty strong in the workplace…Business insider an industry based website agrees… Better than CMU… [The</a> World’s Best Engineering Schools - Business Insider](<a href=“The World's Best Engineering Schools”>The World's Best Engineering Schools)</p>