<p>Has anyone received their acceptance letter from WPI for the Dec 20, 2012 Early Action Round 1 decision?</p>
<p>Son received his today. We live in New Jersey. No merit information yet…others have indicated that merit letters come in the next 2 weeks following the acceptance letters.
Good Luck!</p>
<p>Thanks. Good luck to you too!</p>
<p>Received merit letter today. Quite a good Christmas Eve Gift!</p>
<p>We received merit award with acceptance letter. $24K/yr, $96K total Premed Scholars award. Stats: Valedictorian, 4.0 (u/w), 4.8 (w), 35 ACT, SAT2 780, 770 Math2 & Physics.</p>
<p>My D received award as well. $24k per year/ chem/biochem scholars. Stats: 2nd in class, 2400 SAT, SAT2 780 (math 2) 800 (chem), 100+ GPA (weighted), 12 AP courses, 5’s on the 7 exams taken so far.</p>
<p>Son received his merit award today. Barely puts a dent in their total cost of $56K per year. Doubt he will be attending.</p>
<p>Congrats to you and your D rizado! I am sure she will have many wonderful choices.</p>
<p>Same to you and yours, Krug! What an adventure…</p>
<p>My D received her package on Dec 19th in the mail with a $14k per year presidential scholarship and then on Dec 24th, she received another letter giver her additional scholarships totaling 30k a year. WPI is back in the running!</p>
<p>still no merit here. 800/800/780 sat IIs 800/800 . 
Rizado and krug: will they stack the national merit finalist scholarship on top of what your child has already received?</p>
<p>I am not positive but I think that rizado looked into it and concluded that WPI doesn’t stack merit scholarships.</p>
<p>I am surprised that you did not get a scholarship. Perhaps, you are in the running for the full tuition and we are out of it since we got our award (hopefully not). With your stats, I am sure that you will have good choices.</p>
<p>perhaps but it could be because i have a son and you both had daughters- they prob are trying to recruit women to engineering.</p>
<p>PA-C - I think he will get something.</p>
<p>You can see in section H of the Common Data Set that most students who do not get financial aid, still get a merit scholarship.</p>
<p>If my math is correct, last September, 244 of the 275 in the entering class who did not get financial aid did get merit scholarships:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/IRO/WPI_CDS_2012-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/IRO/WPI_CDS_2012-2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks dadinator for the info!
And I want to say congrats to the Ds of Rizado and Krug! i hope i didnt come off sounding bitter towards the students who did get awards as that was not my intention!</p>
<p>Thanks PA-C. Like my earlier post, he might be in the running for the full tuition scholarship! We have a middle S (sophomore in college) in the sciences with similar stats to our 2 Ds, (exact rank, within one point on ACT and 10 pts on SAT 2, same course load and GPA) and his admission result was different but very good so it all worked out great.</p>
<p>Like krug said, based on what I’ve read on their web site I don’t think they stack, although catd76’s post suggested otherwise (2 awards totalling $30K). I can’t explain why PA-C’s S didn’t get scholarship! (My D isn’t interested in engineering, BTW, although obviously she’s female.) I think the Foisie is awarded on a rolling basis beginning in January, so perhaps PA-C’s S has only better things to look forward to. (PA-C, if your S qualifies for one of those guaranteed scholarships, e.g., at least $20K for National Merit or $20K for being valedictorian, and you haven’t heard, I would check with the admissions office. If they “guarantee,” they should honor the promise.</p>
<p>PA-C, it is also conceivable that you were sent a letter but that it never reached you. That happens more often than you’d think, and particularly with the holiday crush of mail, could have happened here. At least worth a call to the the admissions office to verify if anything was sent or not.</p>
<p>He does qualify for national merit scholarship so we are very disappointed. i did call and spoke with the woman who answers the phone who put me through to the person who reads our region. i left a voice mail on his machine 1/3/13 but havent heard back yet. Of course I know they are crushed with incoming mail and meetings this time of year…</p>
<p>Spoke with WPI admissions this am. There is no “national merit award” they just guarantee that what the NMF will receive will total at least 20k, and “usually it’s a little bit more”. So if your child already received money, they will up it (if needed )
to reach at least 20k if they turn out to be NMF but dont expect the 20k to be added to what they have already received.</p>