This may be obvious to some but just wanted to point out that although you often see the published admission rate for RIT, what really matters is the admission rate for the program you are applying. For example overall RIT’s admission rate is around 55%, however Mechanical Engineering had an admission rate this year of ~20%. You are admitted to a program not a College or RIT.
@mysticalmagic, are those stats published anywhere? My S was accepted into MechE for the fall. I’m sure he’d love to hear/see those statistics.
Thanks for the information. RIT is where one of my kiddos wants to go.
I have never seen published acceptance rate by program. It would be really nice if they did publish one. They did tell the ME kids at accepted student day the acceptance rate of 20%. It is just known that some programs are ‘hard’ or ‘easy’ to get into.
On the good side this year they reduced admission rates enough to not have a housing issue again. (Last year there was a abnormal increase in yield causing a freshman housing problem - some were housed in nearby hotels)
I have not seen any acceptance rate by program either, but they do publish middle 50% SAT/ACT scores for accepted applicants in each major. https://www.rit.edu/~w-admiss/pdf/requirements.pdf
Yes that was the only break down I know of published and it is still mostly by college, sometimes by department, not program. …but it sure does help. Thanks for putting in the link. (RIT has over 200 programs.) Here is the link the newest version of the Viewbook (2015-16):
http://www.rit.edu/upub/pdfs/Prospectus.pdf
go to page 52-53 for that table.
It was interesting to compare the slightly older table to the current one. The ACT scores seemed to have increased across the board by a point (looks like different SAT numbers) and enrollment has gone up (except Liberal Arts). Do you know what year the other one was for?
I know over the last few years RIT has become more selective. Of course it has come a very long way from when I went in '82! Then it was the mentality of ‘let them come and we’ll weed them out’. I remember the ‘look to the left, look to the right’ speech. Then in the '90’s it was all about retention, retention, retention.