<p>Hey I just go this award Renssealear Medel for the school up in NY. I live in Louisiana so i never heard of it before last night when I got the award. 4 year $60,000 scholarship.
Anyone could give me info about teh school?
How is teh climate? I know real cold but details
Would it be better to go to Vandy Rice Ga Tech or Duke. Schools I am looking at.
Anything would be appreciated.</p>
<p>bump Come on help</p>
<p>If you want girls, RPI is not the way to go.</p>
<p>RPI is a very good engineering school in upstate NY. It gets rather cold during the winter but the spring/summer/fall isnt that bad at all. RPI is probably equally as strong as Georgia Tech in engineering and stronger than Duke and Vanderbilt in most engineering majors. However, if you were to get into Duke, I would suggest going to Duke over RPI.</p>
<p>RPI is the way to go if you are VERY serious about becoming a great engineer or scientist. If you don't have that mindset it likely won't be a great fit.</p>
<p>Don't they give every student a free laptop? That is what I saw in their pamphlet mailed to me.</p>
<p>I got a master's there. It's a good place. Hockey is a big school spirit thing. Student center is nice. Some buildings are centered around a real campus. Fraternities are active. Sage College (or may be called Sage University) is walking distance- mostly female students. There are quite a few girls at RPI, too. Classes- big but not huge. I never had a small class. RPI is tied in with industry pretty well. Lots of recruiters go there, and the career center teaches you how to interview, etc- puts on seminars. There are also incubator businesses associated with RPI. With that scholarship, I would definitely go. If money is not an issue at all, fine, go whereever, but for most people RPI would be a good deal with that award.</p>
<p>About the girls issue, nearby Russell Sage College is all women. RPI is 30% female. </p>
<p>You don't get a free laptop... it is included in tuition and fees so everyone has the same one. It's a REALLY good laptop, though. </p>
<p>The school is nothing like Vandy, Rice, or Duke, but it is somewhat similar to GA Tech. It is a very good tech school and well-respected in the Northeast, although people in the South have rarely heard of it.</p>
<p>yeah! In my area, RPI is as well-known and recognized as Cornell.</p>
<p>How tough is the workload like as tough as a MIT or Ga Tech equal?
What all is there to do up there like not much to see in the city?</p>
<p>I'd say go to duke or vandy. You'll have a better college experience there and you'll be graduating from one of the top schools in the country, esp duke. You'll get a good engineering degree and go far if you graduate from there too.</p>
<p>RPI is not my cup of tea...</p>
<p>In my opinion, the workload is the same all over. The courses are the same, or quite similar. The competition is what varies. I thought that the class projects were tricky, but was coming in with no programming experience, just a science/math background. But a classmate's dad agreed, and he was an engineer. But there were many short projects, no big killers until you got into the higher courses. I would say that the competition is weaker than at MIT. It seems like a happier school than Georgia Tech, too. The city of Troy doesn't have much- some shopping, Russell Sage College. The downtown is in walking distance- RPI is on a hill high above it, rather dramatic. Nice country areas and mountains are within a short drive, if you have a car (Williamstown, Mass., the Berkshires, Vermont). Albany is about ten miles away- has more in the way of shopping, restaurants. The school has clubs and activities. Fraternities and sororities did a lot, there was an orienteering club, and a motocross club that I knew of. I was older, not into the activities, but was aware of some of them. Drinking was big back then, but after several incidents, the school went on a major campaign to educate about the danger, and provide alternative entertainment.</p>