<p>Can pretty much any girl with a 3.5 gpa get into RPI cuz they are in need of girls?</p>
<p>We’re not in need of girls, the freshman class this year had a much higher ratio of male:female, along with an increased overall GPA I believe. Girls are not given a free ride into the institution.</p>
<p>My DD got in with a 3.7 weighted GPA from a VERY respected sci-tech magnet, and high SAT’s. I don’t think being female hurt, but I am not sure that even a 3.5 UW makes it a safety for a female, depending on everything else.</p>
<p>how about a girl with 1850 SAT/29ACT. 4.2 WGPA, RPI Medalist, 3 sport Varsity athlete (captain of two), NHS, founder of Latin Club? for civil engineering? I think match but worried about the SATs</p>
<p>yeah, my DD had higher SATs than that, over 2000. </p>
<p>We wondered if being a woman would be more of an advantage applying as an engineer, vs applying as an architect (she ended up applying and being admitted as an architect) never got a clear answer.</p>
<p>We know the architecture dept is 50/50 men/women - better ratio than engineering. When we talked to Admissions during a impromptu visit, the counselor was not particularly encouraging when we were asking about architecture but when my daughter mentioned engineering, there was much more interest. Not sure it means anything.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman archie at rpi, and the ratio is about 60/40 women/men for our class - or at least it was at the beginning of the year.</p>
<p>the incoming freshman class overall ratio was 28% women 72% men</p>
<p>Not to sound rude, but 1850 SAT will look very shaky on your application. Do you have any APs or other standardized scores to help RPI look past the SATs?</p>
<p>cached - not my application - its my daughter’s. She has taken all honors and AP courses since freshman year - our school doesn’t offer as many APs as others but she has done well with them all. Her SATs are likely to improve. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>I got in two years ago with a 3.5 and a 1960. I had great LORs and good ECs/personal statement. A 3.5 is a good gpa, but its not a shoe-in like a >3.8 would be. RPI wants balance.</p>
<p>I think my daughter improved her chances a bit with her new SATs score. Now 1950 - so with a 4.2 GPA (all honors or AP) and excellent ECS, I’m a bit more optomistic. Especially now that one of the varsity coaches has taken an interest.</p>
<p>I’ve known both male and female students who have been admitted in recent years with an unweighted 3.5 GPA. That GPA was earned in a pretty demanding curriculum in all cases and it came with pretty good, if not great, SAT/ACT scores.</p>
<p>Here’s the GPA data from RPI’s most recent CDS filing:</p>
<p>Percent who had GPA of 3.75 and higher 39.1%
Percent who had GPA between 3.50 and 3.74 34.4%
Percent who had GPA between 3.25 and 3.49 16.4%
Percent who had GPA between 3.00 and 3.24 8.5%
Percent who had GPA between 2.50 and 2.99 1.4%
Percent who had GPA between 2.0 and 2.49 0.2%</p>
<p>I hope that 1.6% with sub-3.0 GPAs are brilliant underachievers who turned it on late in their HS academic career because RPI is no place for slackers.</p>
<p>undoubtedly hockey playing architects with a brilliant portfolio and top notch slap shot ;)</p>