***Official RIT RD Results Class of 2021***

Colleges and Universities A-Z Rochester Institute of Technology
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SIMPLY REMOVE THE “x” IN THE FOLLOWING CODE

[xB][xsize=4][xcolor=#00aa00]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]**
[xB][xsize=4][xcolor=#aaaa00]Decision: Deferred[/color][/size]**
[xB][xsize=4][xcolor=#aa0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size]**

Financial Award: $

Objective:
SAT :
ACT :
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Weighted GPA:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Interview:

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major:
State:
Country:
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

There is another thread for discussion, please keep this thread as concise as possible for future students.

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Accepted!!

Financial Award: $ hoping it comes this week

Objective:
SAT : did not take
ACT : 35 composite
SAT II: Physic 740 Chemistry 710 Math 2 700
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
Weighted GPA:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 15%
AP (place score in parenthesis): School only offers 1 ap class, all classes honors and college classes offered
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Geo-astrophysics, Oceanography,
Calcus, History II
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Merit Scholarship Commended

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Track, Bowling, Service club
Job/Work Experience: Summer Job (amusement park)
Volunteer/Community service: few clubs, & relay for life
Summer Activities: work
Interview: no

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Finance
State: NJ
Country:
School Type: Small Public competitive Science & math high school
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: Upper Middle income
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

Strengths: Strong Tests scores & high school classes
Weaknesses: No hooks
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Strong Candidate, good essay & recs,

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Colorado Boulder, Rutgers, waiting on answers from 6 other colleges, rejected Upenn

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Financial Award: None so far

SAT : 1480
ACT : 33
SAT II: Math 1 710, World History 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a homeschoolers
Senior Year Course Load: Calculus, Arabic, Japanese, Finnish, First Peoples Culture, Standard Lit
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Absolutely none

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: NACLO
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: None
Summer Activities: Cleaning local wildlife preserve
Interview: Nope

Applied for Financial Aid?: But of course
Intended Major: Linguistics
State: NY
Country: USA
School Type: homeschool
Ethnicity: screamingly white
Gender: M
Income Bracket: myob
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Passionate about social and material culture

Reflection

Strengths: Contrarian ideas
Weaknesses: lack of conventional education
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no idea
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: again, myob

There is another thread for discussion, please keep this thread as concise as possible for future students.
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ACCEPTED! COMPUTER SCIENCE

Financial Award: too early

ACT : 31 Composite; 32 Super
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ?
Weighted GPA: 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chemistry; lots of Honors
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Physics, C++, Calculus, Honors Gov, World Lit, Concert Band, Ecumenical & Inter-Religious Studies
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Honor Society; swim related

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Varsity Swimmer (4 yrs), USA Swimmer, Band
Job/Work Experience: Lifeguarding
Volunteer/Community service: Lots of school & work service; Immersion trip; Student tutor
Summer Activities: USA Swimming / work
Interview: No

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major: Computer Science
State: Ohio
Country:
School Type: Private Catholic
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection

Strengths: Essay & Recommendation
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted: Good essay & recs; strong HS
Where else were you accepted: Ohio State, Purdue, U of Pitt, still waiting on 2

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Financial Award: unknown

Objective:
SAT : 1370 (730 RW, 640 math)
ACT : 32 (36 reading, 34 English, 26 math, 24 science)
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.1
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis):4 world history, 5 English language
IB (place score in parenthesis):na
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Eng Lit, AP 2D Studio art, dual credit math, Special ed peer tutor, Honors French 3, physed
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit commended

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: special competitive art team, Took local college american sign language last summer and participated in deaf community activities
Job/Work Experience: restaurant
Volunteer/Community service: church activities
Summer Activities: mission trip working with children 4 years in a row
Interview: yes

Applied for Financial Aid?:no
Intended Major: ASL interpreting
State:KY
Country:
School Type: large public
Ethnicity:white
Gender:female
Income Bracket:middle
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none

Reflection

Strengths: showed initiative to learn ASL at a college because not offered at high school, high English scores
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:accepted Kent State, Eastern KY U, U of Louisville

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Decision: Accepted

Financial Award: $16k scholarship, $1k grant, $8.3k in loans

Objective:
SAT : 1440 new SAT (720 math, 720 reading)
ACT : 33 composite (35 english, 31 math, 32 reading, 33 science)
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School only does weighted
Weighted GPA: 99.0/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school doesn’t give out official ranks, but based on what ive heard from others im in the top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), U.S History (4), English Language and Composition (4), Calculus AB (TBD), Biology (TBD), U.S Government and Politics (TBD), English Literature and Composition (TBD)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load:AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP U.S Government and Politics, AP English Literature and Composition, Advanced Spanish Communications II, Computer Aided Design
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NYSPHSAA Varsity Scholar Athlete Award (4x), National Spanish Exam Bronze Level Achievement, AP Scholar Award, White K Award (highest unweighted average of the team in a varsity sport- 2x)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, Marching Band- Kickline (captain), Varsity Winter Dance Team (captain), Varisty Girls Spring Track, Science Olympiad, Student Environmental Action Society, Students Against Destructive Decisions, dance company outside of school
Job/Work Experience: assistant dance teacher in 9th grade, cashier at mcdonalds in 10th grade, assistant office manager in 11th grade
Volunteer/Community service: various events through clubs and honor societies im involved in, Dancing for Smiles- non profit organization designed to preform for the elderly free of charge and raise money through donations and bake sales for a friend who lost her leg to cancer to help ease to cost of chemo/surgeries
Summer Activities: summer jobs (same as above)
Interview: N/A

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
State: New York
Country: USA
School Type: medium/large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >$100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen college student, woman in engineering

Reflection

Strengths: personal statement essay (almost everyone who read it cried), extracurriculars, GPA, test scores, coach recommendation letter (10/10)
Weaknesses: teacher recommendation letters (7/10- it was my fault that i was never really close with any of my teachers), not enough leadership experience
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: strengths and hooks listed above
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: University of Delaware (accepted), Binghamton University (accepted), UConn (accepted), still waiting on BU, Cornell, and WPI… keeping my fingers crossed

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[xcolor=#00aa00]Decision: Accepted[/color]

Financial Award: $ Do not know

Objective:
SAT : 1210
700 in math
ACT : N/A
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A
Weighted GPA: 3.41
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 25%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Ap Computer Science, Ap Stats, Ap Human Geo
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Ap Computer Science, Ap Stats, Ap Human Geo
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Dirigo Boy’s State

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Ice Hockey, Soccer, Tennis
Job/Work Experience: Grocery Store 20 Hours A Week
Volunteer/Community service: Soup Kitchen
Summer Activities:
Interview: N/A

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major: Cyber Security
State: Maine
Country: USA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 200k>
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths: Math Sat
Weaknesses: GPA
Other Schools: UMass Accepted
UTampa: Accepted
UMD College Park: Accepted:
UMaine: Accepted
Northeastern: Deferred

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Decision: Accepted

Financial Award: $1,000 NTID Foundation Fund Scholarship

Objective: ASL/English Interpreting
SAT : 1380 (New) 730 English 650 Math
ACT :
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
Weighted GPA: 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: ASL 4 Honors, Earth Science, AP Calc AB, APGov, English 11
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Athletic Scholarship of the Year 2016

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: ASL, Track, Jobs, etc.
Job/Work Experience: 2 jobs and one I currently hold now
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at my church
Summer Activities:
Interview:

Applied for Financial Aid?: YES
Intended Major:
State: CA
Country:
School Type:
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths: SAT and strong background in ASL
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

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Decision: Accepted

Financial Award: $26,300 ($18K Merit Aid, $5.5k direct unsubsidized loan, $2.8k campus employment)

Objective:
SAT : (2016 New SAT) Superscored 730 M 730 CELA
ACT : N/A
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.63
Weighted GPA: 3.84
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human Geography (3), AP Art History (4), AP English Language and Composition (3), AP Calculus AB (TBD), AP Psychology (TBD)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Calc AB, American Govt/ Economics, Physics, Digital Media, World Literature
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Scholar Finalist, AP Scholar

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Tennis (all four years, Varsity capt.), American Red Cross, Piano/Voice Lessons, Church Choir
Job/Work Experience: Tutor (was not listed in my application)
Volunteer/Community service: Created free curriculum for nanotechnology courses for high school students, Helped run first aid station at 2016 Rose Parade alongside Red Cross, Created a school garden in collaboration with Home Depot and Lowe’s, general paperwork and labor at local marathons
Summer Activities: 10 Intensive Law and Trial Course at Stanford University (not listed on my app),
Interview: Yes. For future applicants, fyi: it’s not a real interview. You walk in and an admissions counselor meets with you. They introduce themselves, you introduce yourself, they ask what activities you like to do, and then ask if you have any questions about RIT. I straight up asked them what sets RIT apart from schools with seemingly better academics like Northeastern and the counselor didn’t have an answer. I also asked him if I could have a major with two minors just to test if he knew what he was talking about, and he didn’t know. tl;dr they’re not actually prepared to answer anything, whether it’s subjective or objective, so the interview is useless.

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yup
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
State: California
Country: USA
School Type: Average Public School
Ethnicity: Mixed
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): NHRP Finalist, URM (part hispanic)

Reflection

Strengths: Test Scores, Strong interest in the school (join the Loop guys the admissions counselors see who’s active on there!), lots of extracurricular activities related to my major
Weaknesses: Weaker GPA than most. Also, I did my essay literally 4 hours before the app was due. Don’t be me.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: URM Female Student-Athlete pursing a STEM field major with decent grades and decent money. Checks off all the quota boxes the school has to fill.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: UC Riverside (accepted), CSULA (accepted), Cal Poly SLO (rejected)

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@SamAndCheese How were you notified?

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For my son:
Not Rejected but not offered ME: Other majors???

Objective: Mechanical Engineering
SAT : 1400 (math 760)
ACT :
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
Weighted GPA: 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP, Physics, AP Calculus, AP Computer Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Honors

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Musical, Bowling
Job/Work Experience: 17 hours a week: Grocery
Volunteer/Community service: consistent, church volunteer, Refugee volunteer
Summer Activities: Work
Interview: No

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: ME
State: PA
Country:
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 160+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none apparently

Reflection: Didn’t visit, spent a lot of time on portal researching.
I find it interesting that he hasn’t been really rejected from any school just offered something different. Like: “your good but not good enough”

Strengths: SAT
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Didn’t realize ME was difficult or would have chosen Engineering exploration
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Virginia Tech, Penn State (Behrend) 2+2, Grove City College, WVU, Geneva College, waiting on CWRU. Rejected: Penn State University Park (this is how he see’s it)

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@MSMead I found it surprising that what has been said before is apparently true concerning how overpopulated RIT is with MechEng majors. Your son’s credentials appear far better than my son’s but mine was CompEng and was accepted with much lower scores and extra-currs. If university park doesn’t take him, then VATech would be a great choice. The negative that I see in VATech though, is that the campus is huge and students have to travel in shuttlebuses. CaseWestern is topnotch on par with RPI but quite costly. Geneva may not offer him the challenge he will need and job placement might be a bit lacking. My best friend’s son went to Geneva for MechEng.

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Thanks Reformedman. I don’t think he will choose Geneva for that reason. We will be visiting VATech in April to see the scope of the campus. We should know about CWRU by the end of the weekend. Its very expensive but they do offer pretty good aid so we’ll see. I didn’t love the campus in Cleveland but my son actually did.
The most convenient for us will be WVU (honors college) or Grove City College but its his choice.

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FYI. I had my son send an email to the designated RIT address for (other options) asking for more details. He thought he would have at least been offered other options within the Kate Gleason School of Engineering and he wants to know why he wasn’t.

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Decision: Accepted

Financial Award: $37,500 (16k scholarship, 12k grant, 6.5k loans, 2.8k work study)

Objective:
SAT :1530
ACT :
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Weighted GPA:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):10/350
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP calcBC, AP physics, Wind Ensemble, Finance, ?
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): All Eastern Musician

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad, Music, Hockey, Track
Job/Work Experience: Dishwasher, cook
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Interview:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Chemical Eng
State: NY
Country: US
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 150k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths: GPA, SAT, narrow but high achieving focus for extra curriculars
Weaknesses: Volunteering
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Due to strengths.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

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Decision: Accepted

Civil Engineering

Financial Award: $10k Scholarship

Objective:
SAT : 1300
ACT : nope
SAT II: none
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a
Weighted GPA: 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Environmental Science (4) school offers like 4 and no honors
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, APUSH, Physics, College class in a nearby college (Comp Sci and Math), Dual Enrollment Research class with UAlbany, and the rest are just regular classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Student to intern to worker at a 4 year program, research at NYU, and clubs here and there
Job/Work Experience: Office work, Sailing Summer camp, Gardening at a popular public space in NYC
Volunteer/Community service: ~200 hours but I don’t think they know that?
Summer Activities: job/work
Interview: none

Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
Intended Major: civil engineering
State: NY
Country:
School Type: Small public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Low lol
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen+ female in engineering?

Reflection

Strengths: essay, rec, and extracurr.
Weaknesses: test scores def, and lack of APs
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: idk
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Stonybrook, UB, Syracuse Honors, Rutgers, Penn State UP, RPI

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@zyx614 How did you check? Or did you get it in the mail? Also, how did you apply, through the common app or the actual portal for RIT?

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Decision: Accepted

Psychology

Financial Award: $10k scholarship

Objective:
SAT : 1250/1500; 1750/2400
ACT : 28
SAT II: none
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
Weighted GPA: 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP USH (3), AP Lang (2)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Intro Psych, SUPA Psych (dual enrollment), SUPA English (dual enrollment), SUNY ESF (dual enrollment), AP Spanish, Honors Calc, Gov/Econ, Drawing & Painting
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: President/Founder of Peer Tutoring Club, Vice President of Writer’s club, Spanish Club, Model United Nations, Outdoor Track and Field, Mathletes, Book Club, Refugee Outreach Club

Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: volunteering at a refugee center & VA hospital
Summer Activities: volunteering
Interview: none

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: psychology
State: NY
Country: USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen medical, first gen college in the US

Reflection

Strengths: act, essay, extracurricular
Weaknesses: sat, goals, aps
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted probably cause I was a select candidate & of my act/essay
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Penn State, Stony Brook, UAlbany, UTampa honors, RIT, RPI, Siena

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@Waverider3377 I got a letter in the mail first and then a few days later I checked the portal and it says on the left hand side that I’m accepted. I applied through the common app!

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I finally received my financial aid too, $13,000