Accepted with $112k total ($28k/year) scholarship! Female, also got into MIT EA
Accepted, 13K/yr. presidential scholarship.
Male, 1560 SAT, 36 ACT, 3.98 UW GPA, Athlete, NMF, Many EC’s/service hours.
Math/Physics
It is a bit disappointing. WPI was high on the list assuming generous merit. Hopefully he will have better options for the same price tag. We have a high EFC. Can anyone answer whether that may play a role?
Does the financial aid decision need-based aid or have they only announced merit-based offers so far?
Congrats to everyone reporting acceptance. Your numbers by the way are incredible – are you really surprised?!? My son is studying for a Physics exam right now and not even focused on this. Has anyone been rejected? Or deferred (they don’t “reject” EA’s do they, deferring being so much more positive?). Anyway, I looked in his WPI portal and there’s a lot of exclamation points and an invitation to an Accepted students portal (or a url at least). I don’t want to click on anything before he does. Has anyone been deferred who’s looking at this? Don’t mean to be an Eeyore but I know he really wants to be accepted at WPI and he’s “only” a 1430 super score. Had no idea this would be SO nervewracking.
@mOmrOcks WPI focuses their recruiting efforts more on females at this point, and thus they tend to get more generous merit offers. That’ s the way it is. They want to entice more females to attend so the school os more gender balanced compared to many other comparable tech institutions where the ratio skews 70/30 or worse. WPI is closer to 50/50, or heading that way. BTW, I am fine with the way WPI handles there merit decisions, even though I’m a parent of a prospective male student. I think it’s good to get more girls involved in STEM studies and careers.
Congrats to your son.
For mine it is a female- $28k a year.
Congrats! Can you share her numbers?
My D was accepted with 27K per year merit scholarship. 1500+ SAT, 800’s on SAT Math 2 and Chemistry. 5’s on AP exams.
@RightCoaster. I don’t think they are throwing extra $ at girls this year. D’s award was within 2K of our EFC. This makes WPI 10K more than her 2nd choice and 20K more than our state flagship that is a top tier engineering school. (We are “crazy” not to choose our flagship but we are looking for a smaller school for D)
Do tonight’s financial awards include the consideration given from the FAFSA and CSS? Or is it only merit that’s shown in acceptance message?
@promom4 … you are not correct. WPI has specifically stated that they have allocated $1M of merit aid to female candidates to increase enrollment. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2017/08/21/wpi-sees-notable-gains-female-enrollment-after-shift-use-non-need
Accepted! $28k a year biochem scholarship, 4.35 GPA, 1550 SAT, female, 780 on math II sat, 760 on bio m sat, 5 on 3 AP exams. Congrats everyone! Also hope these stats help some anxious senior like me next year 
@promom4. it is true, and WPI has set aside more funding ( it was quite a bit if I remember correctly) for female applicants in the last few admissions cycles. Like I said, I’m fine with it. I think they use some of this $$ to attract high achieving female applicants. These girls will be a boon for the university in the years to come. The president of WPI has mentioned on numerous occasions this is their admission strategy.
My son was deferred. He is so bummed, really likes WPI and says this is as bad as a rejection. Is that true? His ACT is 35 (took it once), unweighted GPA of 3.6, average EC, no honors or awards. His high school does not offer AP courses, so he does Dual Enrollment. White male, no hooks, mechanical engineering applicant.
Really sorry for your son. A 35 on ACT and deferred?
M BME applicant. total grants+scholarships: 32k with 27k/year presidential. 35 ACT ss 4.4gpa (w). Honestly, thought i’d get more $$. more than 30k a year for me is a lot. and did anyone see the 6.5k meal plan??? Thats the most expensive one i’ve seen!
D accepted with $27K/year, plus the global scholarship everyone gets. 35ACT, 4.2 GPA. Biomedical engineering.
son accepted, 10,000/yr merit.SAT 1420 (math 790). AP chem (5), AP comp sci (4), AP physics (5). Top 10% of class. He loves the school, but we will have to compare $ to the other 4 he applied to.
S19 accepted with 13K/year merit. SAT 1540, Math2 800, Chem 760. Lots of APs with 5’s. He was interested, but the financials won’t make sense since he got into U.Mich. today as an in-state student. Good luck to all!
Son accepted, 12k/yr merit, International.