I haven’t seen a thread for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s PREFACE Program for this year.
Has anyone heard when applicants will be notified?
I haven’t heard from the school at all and I’m worried my application wasn’t received on time since I’m from the West Coast.
I applied but didn’t hear back yet
I applied as well, but I have yet to hear anything back. Please Let me know when anyone else who applied receives any information.
I asked about decisions using the Contact Us form on the website. Their reply was “Decisions will be mailed in early May.” So I guess we’ll find out on different days because they will be sent by snail mail
Website says notification will be mailed mid-April. I wonder what the delay is. Has anyone heard yet?
@peachActuary73 I haven’t heard anything and it’s impossible to get a hold of someone on the phone. Each time I have called it has always gone to an automated machine.
I hope we know by the end of this week because it is “Early May”. The waiting is killing me
Just got my rejection, but its all good
Rejected 1570 sat (1590 superscored), 95.5 gpa, science olympiad, decent recs, decent essays, volunteering, research, varisty soccer… whatever rpi can fuck off it isn’t that good anyways.
I still have not received a notification. Maybe it has to do with where I live
Sorry to hear about that. Did the letters happen to say how many people applied?
@student158 Same here. I’m on the other side of the country so hopefully I’ll get my letter by Thursday
@dietcig I believe i read the number 340 as I was ripping it up.
@Sebas514 In my opinion RPI relies on evidences that show whether a person will attend if offered. I think if you are over-qualified (greatly above average), and you haven’t documented any visitation, or your essay doesn’t specifically speak about some identiying characteristics about RPI that interests you, then they can assume that you would not attend if offered.
In my opinion, and take it with a grain of salt, but if you had paid the enrollment deposit while on the waitlist, it would be a win-win. You would get accepted, and they would have their numbers that they wanted. If you didn’t want RPI in the first place, no harm no foul. But if you really wanted it you would have placed your deposit. If they reject you even-then, it means they will return your check and not cash it, so you don’t lose anything.
My mail just came and still no letter for me. I don’t know if it has anything to do with location though, I live in NE Ohio.
@GoRedhead Idk man, I’ve been rejected from every single “diversity” program has rejected me thus far and I’m waiting on Georgia Tech to lmk if I got off of the waitlist. Maybe it’s income based (I have a relatively high income for being a urm) or maybe they think I’m too qualified (which I doubt). Now I’m screwed for this summer b/c underqualified people are taking my spot in these programs. I should’ve applied to MITES or more regular programs. It’s grueling to put in so much effort into my essays and just get rejected.
@Sebas514 I feel ya bro, I got rejected from my dream-school Notre Dame and I feel I was on par with what they were looking for. Since I couldn’t visit for distance, I couldn’t show interest. I think now that the fever is gone, any college offering my specific major is fine and really affordability is a big factor because nowadays colleges are playing this money game to push as far as possible with what people can afford. If this wasn’t true they would not accept appeals to financial aid. They are over-charging on their cost and try to squeeze out every last drop they can out of families. So whatever rankings you see are doped up by yield-rates and rankings which are directly hyped up by rejecting great candidtates like you who show you are able to do the work, but have a high risk that you won’t enroll.
TLDR; it’s all a numbers game, give your waitlist-school their enrollment check and see how quick they pick you up.
I signed up to reply to this because my daughter depends on other people sharing to help her determine what might be a fit for her. Just hoping to help someone else later on with this.
My daughter got her acceptance letter yesterday. Stats as of application (so jr year):
White female
Texas
Public high school of about 425 per grade very middle of the pack type school actually qualifies as title 1 school
Class rank: 2
Unweighted gpa: 4.0
Solid AP schedule
ACT: 28
Exceptional recs written by a teacher and counselor
3 years of Project Lead The Way engineering program
3 years varsity letter sport track/soccer
2 years National Honor Society
1 year Stuco
2 years letter in band
2 years to World Guard International for Indoor Drumline, once at World Level
3 years robotic team
3 years math & science team - multiple placements, regionals 2 years
2 years of high placements for regional science fair
2 state science fair
1 year Intel International Science Fair
Multiple awards for science fair
Speaker for Project Lead the Way educators conference
Volunteer work centers around tutoring
I am not sure what she wrote about but it was probably struggles dyslexia, her research, or about being one of 2 females in her engineering program.
Her paperwork indicated that they had 350 applicants and took 20 kids. I am sure that on any given day a different set of equally qualified students could have been selected. Ya’ll are the cream of the crop and I am sure any of you would have been a compliment to the program.
Also, in case anyone is looking at this to decide if he/she should apply, Preface picks up not only the cost of the program, but also travel expenses, which really makes it nice for kids who couldn’t come otherwise.
Also, I failed to mention that she did the NASA high school aerospace scholars online this year. That may have helped, too.
Oops I thought I was responding to regular admissions, not PREFACE.
Sorry and disregard previous post.
checked the mail and still nothing. I do not understand because I live in Illinois