<p>I'm going to apply to RPI regular decision, and I was wondering if it's true that girls can get in more easily?
I noticed on the Candidate's Choice App that you can only choose one major, so are there any "impacted majors" at RPI?
For example, if I put EE, if I'm not competitive enough for that major, will I just get rejected?
In that case do you think it's better for me to just put undeclared?</p>
<p>Oh gosh, sorry about all the questions, I just wanna make sure before I turn in my app.</p>
<p>definately!
RPI has more guys so, for balance wise, girls might have a slight advantage. As you may know from the news at RPI, there has been a significant increase in girls which is a good thing because the school becomes more balanced. But still, girls have a good advantage ( in any engineering school). </p>
<p>Yes, honestly, you probably do have a notable advantage, being female. I'm pretty sure that declaring a major one way or the other won't hurt you: in fact, declaring EE, again as a girl, might help you.</p>
<p>Yeah, you have a slight advantage as a girl... because they are slowly trying to improve the ratio at RPI. The ratio for institute as a whole is around 3:1, while because of the enormous number of people who applied, they were able to improve the ratio for the class of 2010 to 2:1, and I suspect they will try to improve that a little more for the class of 2011. </p>
<p>I also wondered whether major selection was a factor. I think it can be, but only in very specific cases. In general I don't see any majors here as being "impacted" or harder to get into, except I suspect the EMAC major will be really popular this year with the EMPAC center. </p>
<p>Also, I remember reading that RPI has been getting a lot more applications from non-engineering majors over the past few years. I'd guess its probably 50% engineering, 50% other now. They are really working to make RPI a true technological university, with the EMPAC and Biotech center, and now they are planning a major addition to the the main science building and the Observatory. I'm a physics major, so I find this pretty exciting, even though its still a few years down the road..</p>
<p>I looked at the newly released common data set and it says 46% of guys were accepted to the class of 2011 while 58% of girls were accepted. So there's a little bit of an "advantage" being a girl but it could just be because the applicant pool for girls is a little bit stronger.</p>
<p>Fun facts: 28% of MIT's applicant pool are girls, and 26% of RPI's applicant pool are girls, pretty much the same. Yet MIT's latest class is about 46% girls and RPI's is 30%. What does that tell you about MIT admissions?</p>
<p>Wow, interesting stuff Delton.
I hope I can get in, RPI sounds like it is becoming a very cool school.</p>
<p>Although it will be hard to convince my parents to go halfway across the country for school (I'm Californian)
This school seems like a good fit if I don't get into Berkeley or UCLA...</p>