<p>@cool5s Not at all. I got the same notice, but there is a financial aid statement in my portal which has the words “Incoming Undergraduates” in big letters, so I’m going to assume I’m accepted. The letters should be out in the mail in the next few days.</p>
<p>Accepted. 34 ACT, 3.9 gpa, legacy</p>
<p>They only gave me 20k a year though… I can’t afford to pay 40k a year so therefore I will not be attending.</p>
<p>@LadyPikachu All my portal says is “View Update” and when I click it says Congratulations that I got accepted and then on the bottom it just says “Return to Application Status”. It’s a little odd but hopefully it’ll appear soon</p>
<p>@timfredo Hmmm yeah some people on this thread are saying they don’t see the financial aid link either, so you’re not alone. I’m sure you’ll get it soon though!</p>
<p>@Proudfather If she really wants to attend RPI, I would seriously email her admissions counselor and ask if there was a mistake. They may be missing something from her application. I would think they would be falling over themselves to accept your daughter. It can’t hurt to ask the question, pretty much just like you posted it here.</p>
<p>Son was accepted with 35K per year merit. Congrats to all that got accepted. I hope those waiting on finamcial aid and merit packages hear soon!</p>
<p>@proudfather The acceptance rate for women for the Fall of 2013 was 47%, compared to 39% for men. Applications were over 16,000 last year. They usually release the new figures in about a week.</p>
<p><a href=“http://provost.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/CDS%202013-2014%20Final.pdf”>http://provost.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/CDS%202013-2014%20Final.pdf</a></p>
<p>Good luck to your D. She will do fine wherever she ends up attending.</p>
<p>For a dead forum just a few days ago we are really burning this forum up! So funny. There must have been thousands of lurkers.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted as ME major with 25K in grants/merit plus another 8k in loans. 2140 SAT (790 math), only a 3.2 GPA but she turned it on senior year with all A’s and 4 AP classes. Part time job, 3 varsity sports, captain of the track team. So it will cost $30k/year for me to send her there (and then loan payoffs waiting for her on graduation.) That’s a tough sell given she can go to UMass Lowell for room and board alone ($10k/year). Lowell is not the school RPI is, but is the latter really worth another $80k? I’m an engineer myself, and given what I see both Lowell and RPI graduates doing around here… I’m not convinced.</p>
<p>Colleges are businesses like any other… RPI charges the tuition it does for the simple reason it can. Enough people are willing to pay it. It’s up to each of us to decide if what they offer is truly worth the price tag.</p>
<p>@LadyPikachu, RPI’s 2012-2013 common data set lists level of applicant’s interest as “important” in admissions decision. How (or if) that plays out in merit offers is anyone’s guess. For us, the lower than hoped for offer makes RPI rank lower on the “value” side of our decision making process.</p>
<p>@dadinator The Common data set suggest if you are wait listed your chances of getting an admit are slim to none.</p>
<p>It also suggests that their yield (correct term?) is low. Less than 20% accept. Based on this thread my guess is cost is a huge barrier. For us, all but one of the schools are around $60k. So far, RPI offers the best need based aid and average merit.</p>
<p>The 6th school we are still waiting on is USC. It is also the most selective but meets (their definition) of need. They are supposed to be very generous. </p>
<p>Looks like we are going to two Accepted student days for sure (RPI and RIT) and then USC is a TBD. He will decline WPI (gap too big), Drexel and DePaul.</p>
<p>Son was accepted engineering undecided. 17/540 class rank, 11 AP’s (AP Scholar), internship at JHU APL, 1470 SAT (790 math), medalist. Two varsity sports, hoping to play college baseball. $33,500 in scholarships and other financial aid ($16K Rensselaer Medalist, $9K RPI grant).</p>
<p>We were impressed with RPI on our visit but I doubt that it will be his best deal and in any case I cannot afford $30K/yr. Still waiting on answers and financials from other schools.</p>
<p>@gamergal27 The number coming off the wait list depends on the year. In the Fall of 2012 and 2012, they took 63 and 82, respectively, off of the wait list.</p>
<p>They seem to have a lot less need to go to the wait list in recent years. In Fall 2008, they took 371 off of the wait list. My S’s year (Fall 2009), I remember they also took hundreds off of the wait list.</p>
<p>Is anybody planning on going to the accepted students day (April 5) or the Senior Visiting Day (March 24)? And for anybody who has already been to one of these, is it worth it? We live 3 hours away and have already visited the campus and done the tour… the point would be if it really added something in helping my daughter decide if it is really the place for her.</p>
<p>Dmt117, similar dilemma here. Son was accepted with decent merit ($27k), a bit more than what wpi offered. Also accepted into mit (ea) which offers zero merit…</p>
<p>We’ll go to the accepted students day. I was so impressed when we attended the open house in the fall.
We also have a 3 hr drive, but RPI is now one of her top 2 schools, based on affordability.</p>
<p>As to accepted students day, it may not be worth the drive, unless the event has a somewhat celebratory tune… Maybe someone in the forum knows… We’ve been there as well 2-3 times, including an overnighter my son participated in, i dont believe we’ll be going ourselves…</p>
<p>@dadinator, @desie, et. al. thank you so much for sharing these stats. CollegeView.com showed a much-lower number of applications, about 14,000 vs. 16,000. My guess is that schools like this are getting more applications because the job market is so good for engineers and folks in the sciences. Plus, the merit and financial aid is fantastic, so the word must be getting out. We were all very impressed with the school when we visited. I will have my daughter talk to her college counselor at school and possibly place a call to RPI to see what happened here.</p>
<p>If someone could fit this into their schedule, my S found the Overnight Visit to be extremely helpful. They arranged for him not only to stay in a dorm, but to meet one-on-one with faculty and students from the department he was interested in, sit in on classes, etc.</p>
<p>He was there for almost 24 hours (from one afternoon to the next afternoon). </p>
<p><a href=“Campus Visits & Events | Admissions”>http://admissions.rpi.edu/undergraduate/visit/tours.html</a></p>
<p>Dadinator, that’s a great tip we will look into that.</p>