<p>SAT-wise?
GPA (W or UW)?
ECs - (can you get in with a few?)
APs?</p>
<p>For all those accepted can you please post your stats?</p>
<p>These are some stats I got off the princetonreview
Critical Reading Middle 50%: 600 - 690
Math Middle 50%: 650 - 730
Writing Middle 50%: 580 - 680
Students in Top Tenth of HS Class: 64%<br>
% with GPA 3.75 or higher: 42%
% with GPA 3.50 - 3.74: 37%
% with GPA 3.25 - 3.49: 15%
% with GPA 3.0 - 3.24: 5%
% with GPA 2.5 - 2.99: 1% </p>
<p>I wouldn't say a certain # of AP's just as long as you took advantage of whats available to you and im not sure how much they weigh ECs</p>
<p>oh btw you should look at the accepted students thread...i know there are some stats there.</p>
<p>Here are my stats. Its really unstable, the admission process. unless your gpa, tests, and extracurriculars are all great, you'll have to compensate for the lacking other. like me my gpa was a bit lacking, but i took a ****storm of ap/honors and extracurricular activities, which made up for my gpa. oh and ive gotten four C's in 4 years. so the C's aren't an instant rejection.</p>
<p>Korean Male
Milpitas High school
senior
3.29 unweighted
3.75 weighted
Taken:
Ap Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
AP World History
AP US History
AP Studio Art
Honors Precal
Honors Chem
Honors Eng</p>
<p>Currently taking:
Ap Stats
AP Spanish
AP Bio
AP Eng
Psychology
American gov/econ.</p>
<p>SAT: Critical Reading 660
Math 750
Writing 640</p>
<p>SAT II:Chemistry 660
Mathematics Level 2 710
Korean Language with Listening 760</p>
<p>Extra Cirriculars: 3 years track and field 2 yrs varsity (10-12) Captain of Distance team
2 years Cross country 2 yrs varsity (11-12) Captain of team
1 year of Wrestling (12)< didn't do it yet but planning on doing so.
120+ hrs of community service
Artist. Won multiple internet art contests, local art contests.</p>
<p>How would you consider your essays to be? Decent? Really good? Average?</p>
<p>Mine is very good but is unique to only me, it couldn't apply to others</p>
<p>2008 acceptee
SAT-1940 over two tests
GPA - ~85 UW
ECs - I had very few, although varied, and almost no leadership positions.
APs?
4 AP Euro
4 AP US History
4 AP US Government
4 AP CS A
4 AP Chemistry
4 AP Physics C
3 AP Calculus BC
3 English Literature
3 English Language
2 AP Physics B</p>
<p>Some have told me RPI has lowered standards from when I was admitted almost 5 years ago. However, I got in and here was my “stats”:</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 GPA in high school (weighted to above a 4.0).</p>
<p>SAT score about 1200 (out of 1600)</p>
<p>I had very few AP courses (3 if I remember correctly) -> note RPI only accepts certain AP credits and there’s conditions such as maximum number of courses accepted, etc. You must have at least a 4 on the exam. So if RPI is your dream I wouldn’t worry too much about AP course as much as doing well in the courses you take.</p>
<p>I had leadership positions and was heavily involved in activities at my high school -> volunteer work, honor society, science clubs, etc.</p>
<p>So I would say get involved, do well enough on the SATs and have at least a 3.0 GPA. Plus you should apply to the program you think you can get into (you can always change once you are here 
).</p>
<p>Good luck to all! I’ve loved RPI and am sad to leave but I also suggest you visit if possible before coming here. Some people get here and don’t like the atmosphere. I would say we aren’t overly competitive with each other about grades and people generally want to help each other out but there are few group projects in some majors. So, ask questions on your tour, have an over night stay, and do your research.</p>
<p>Thank you rpigirl. Can you please share your experience? How do you think job prospects are for RPI grads? We visited multiple times now and I am concerned about crime in the area. When we visited there were posted alerts on many doors regarding recent activity. What is it about RPI that some people don’t like?</p>
<p>I have the impression that RPI has become more competitive in the last few years as more and more students apply to it. This year was up another 8%. Their ED1 and ED2 rounds offer a great opportunity for students who really want RPI but may need that extra edge to get in. (ED2 allows a shot at that pie in the sky dream school first). Any weakness from the posted averages should be made up by another strength such as essays, ECs and recommendations.</p>
<p>I have a son in his second year at RPI and he completely loves it there. My youngest daughter heads there next year as well (she did ED admissions). </p>
<p>I don’t think crime is too much different at RPI than other schools, mainly in that you have to take common sense precautions. Cornell had a student stabbed this year, CMU had a student famously held up by gunpoint in the last year (the stolen iphone was recovered). Troy is not a wealthy town, but close to campus is kept pretty safe. Students also have a pretty complete life on campus, not like a campus where a college town is integral part of daily life. There’s an incredible # of student run clubs/activities.</p>
<p>What don’t people like about RPI? Some won’t like the weather. Some won’t like the small city vs a big city (though the capital district is quite close with free buses). Most important is what you want and need from a college, does RPI have it?</p>
<p>check out the average stats
[Quick</a> Facts and Figures - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)](<a href=“http://rpi.edu/about/facts.html]Quick”>http://rpi.edu/about/facts.html)</p>
<p>Note: it depends critically on whether you are male or female!! (I’ve heard of girls getting in with B/C averages)</p>
<p>In brief the biggest complaints are the gender ratio (trust me), lack of foreign language program (was cut last year), and Troy kindof sucks (although its really not as bad as some make it out to be ). </p>
<p>The above discussion is right, its gotten a bit tougher to get in the past few years, acceptance rate dropped from 70% to around 35%.</p>
<p>Since RPI is 75% male I think they would accept just about any female who would like to enroll there.</p>
<p>Not sure about that. According to the most recent Common Data Set, for this year’s entering class they accepted 45% of the female applicants (1,695 out of 3,775) - see page 6:</p>
<p><a href=“http://provost.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/CDS2009_2010%20Data.pdf[/url]”>http://provost.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/CDS2009_2010%20Data.pdf</a></p>
<p>Also, don’t understand the talk about lowered standards - this year’s entering class had mean SATs of 700 math and 650 Reading (page 9 of the Common Data Set). These figures are higher than a few years ago. </p>
<p>The acceptance rate was 43%, compared to 67% for the class that entered 3 years prior.</p>
<p>“In brief the biggest complaints are the gender ratio (trust me)”</p>
<p>I’d have to disagree on that one in some respects. There are a lot of girls that are in the bme/biology major, so the ratio doesn’t show up in my current intro to cell biology or chemistry 2 classes.</p>
<p>My son just got his decision to RPI - wait list. Does not make sense to me. He has 2210 total on SATs, perfect 800 on CR. SAT II = 660 on chem and 740 on math. 3.7 unweighted GPA with tons of honors and AP classes. He has tons of ECs - 3 varsity sports, orchestra, community service, leadership, school awards, great rec letters, great essay…Should he follow up and see if there is an error?</p>
<p>Those are great stats I think it makes sense to follow up. At least you can try to figure out their waiting list game. And they will know you are still interested - perhaps they will even stumble across an error.</p>
<p>Colorado_Mom
I’ve been reading your’s and Dadinator’s comments over the past months and appreciate your insights. Last night my son got wait listed as well. RPI is still his first choice assuming MIT’s decision this afternoon doesn’t work out. We’re wondering just how the wait list works. Last year’s cc threads seem to suggest a lot of wait list decisions come down in May after the May 1 deadline for deposits at other schools. This is a first time through the admission process for us. Does sending a deposit to another school somehow take you off the wait list at RPI? If not, I assume we can accept such a late offer and simply forgo whatever deposit we sent to another school. It may cost some money but might be worth it.</p>
<p>You understand the process correctly.</p>
<p>Sending a deposit to another school does not remove you from the wait list at RPI.</p>
<p>You definitely want to have a deposit in at another school, so your S will have a school for next year lined up if he does not get in off the wait list at RPI.</p>
<p>If he does get in at RPI from the wait list at a later date, you would then just forfeit the deposit at the other school.</p>
<p>If you want to see the historical stats on wait lists, they are usually on page 6 of the Common Data Set:</p>
<p>[Common</a> Data Sets | Office of the Provost](<a href=“http://provost.rpi.edu/node/43]Common”>http://provost.rpi.edu/node/43)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>RPI has significant wait list movement so it is still quite possible to get in. </p>
<p>Some will be the result of yield uncertainty and capacity limitations leading to a conservative number of offers. For example, if a school anticipates 42% of admits to accept they might use 40% to determine the initial number of offers to avoid the circumstance where a larger than normal response exceeds available beds/course capacity. </p>
<p>There is also a daisy chain effect that will continue through May and June as RPI enrollees are pulled off wait lists at schools higher on their preference lists. This causes additional activity further down the food chain as RPI pulls students from its list and those students withdraw at the school that received their deposit on May 1.</p>
<p>Waitlisted students should send in a deposit somewhere else (hopefully it isn’t too much but there aren’t many schools like MIT that require just a mouse click and no deposit to accept). Beyond ethical factors, the limiting factor preventing multiple enrollments is that many high schools will only send a final transcript to one school (they don’t want to be hurt in future admissions seasons by a reputation for their students skipping out on deposits). However, wait list movement is universally acknowledged as an exception. Colleges and high schools recognize that as a situation beyond the student’s control. Colleges may not be happy if a student subsequently withdraws due to a late acceptance at a preferred school but they won’t hold it against the student (beyond keeping the deposit) or the high school.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if you have a good chance of getting in if you got the candidate’s choice application?</p>