I saw one for ED so thought why not make one for RD 
since it came out today!
Please post general information - such as stats, prospective major, accepted/waitlisted/declined, where else you applied to, and where you most likely think you’ll be going next year.
I got accepted and WPI is one of my top choices (looking to do biomedical engineering) but I’m not 100% sure yet. So if you have any background knowledge on the school (like how its like, hows the weather, etc) that’d be super great too!
Thank you! And congrats/good luck to you all!
Waitlisted…very surprised though. especially for my kind of score
1120/1580 sat
25 act
740 math lvl 2
690 physics
gpa 3.43/3.93
mechanical engineering
Daughter’s decision has not appeared yet on her Web portal. We have tried on various devices and our desktop computer. Still waiting.
@NorthernMom61‌ try to call the admissions office and see whats up
Thanks,that is what we will do
Hey, can people here chance me for WPI? It’s my one of my top school choices (other one is BU) and I want to apply to CS. I’m East Asian (Chinese) and I have a SAT score of 2150. My GPA is 3.75 unweighted, 4.59 weighted. Rank is top 15th percentile. For ECs I do varsity tennis, president of table tennis club (one of the co founders), member of our science olympiad club, math club, and a writer for a student run journal. I know java, javascript, php, css, html 5, jquery, and bootstrap for my languages in CS. I have not made anything spectacular yet because I started in my 2nd semester sophomore year but I have made some pretty good websites. I got a 4 on my AP Stats test and I’m taking AP CS and AP Calc AB for AP’s right now. I know how to play the piano, clarinet, alto and tenor sax, and also guitar. For ECs I volutneer at a nearby chinese school (3hrs/week) and for job experience I taught English at China, I helped an American there teach english to Chinese students.
@zhangj81119 u look perfect on paper, and very likely they will accept you. keep it up
Thanks! College is stressful lol
So how is everyone paying for WPI?
My daughter got into WPI, GT, RPI and UConn (Honors) so far. I think WPI is the best fit for my daughter and the financial aid was generous. My daughter says that she is happy with UConn, but I think secretly she really would prefer WPI. She knows that we are very worried about the finances because even with a generous scholarship we are not sure that we can make it happen without going into a worrisome amount of debt.
Thoughts?
@zhangj81119 I can not imagine that you will not get in. I think you are pretty safe. Good luck!
We, too, were concerned about the money. One thing that did save us some was having her live off campus after freshman year (her choice to do so). She shared an apartment with 2 other women about 10 minutes walk south of campus. Three guys from their same class at WPI that they were close friends with had the apartment upstairs. The 6 of them would do things together. The area wasn’t great, but it was OK. There were quite a few students living in that area, so it made it more fun. She also liked to cook, so making her own meals (or having group meals) was preferable to the cafeteria food. I also thought that is helped her develop as she had to find the apartment, pay utilities, keep it clean, etc. more than you would have to do in the dorms.
A dorm room and meal plan run about $13,000 for the school year. Her apartment rent for the year (her share, 12 months) was $4,000, utilities (her share) about $900 and food was about $2,000.
There was a glitch last week and after calling Monday afternoon it got fixed. Daughter got acceptance decision about two hours ago and was admitted. Now we wait in hope of a merit scholarship. She thought she might be a good candidate for the Foisie Scholarship, did all the supplements, but that seems extremely unlikely at this late hour. She was excited to get accepted, but will likely go where she has the best merit offer relative to what we told her we have budgeted for her four years. WPI is a fantastic school, and we are proud that she got in.
Thanks a lot! The thing I’m worried about is my GPA. My school is a pretty easy school in general, but I got the hardest teachers that didn’t really teach so I had to teach myself on some subjects such as Physical Science, Biology, and Pre Calc (I got a B, B, and B+). I’m not exactly an all A- student (B+ average). Does that affect my chances, or do you still think I’ll get in?
How long does it take to hear about a scholarship or not, and does it come via email or snail mail?
Scholarships came in the mail with the acceptance letter.
I think that doesn’t apply for Int’l students. Does anybody know how generous aid is for int’ls?
@CrazyMomof3 Thanks. We keep crisscrossing in different school threads. WPI, RPI and UCONN are all on my daughter’s list too.
@Northernmom61 Which way is your daughter leaning? My daughter was hoping for the Foisie as well. She worked hard on the essays, but I am guessing that it’s already been awarded.
@CrazyMomof3 She is leaning toward UCONN, with Purdue in close second place (though it is a geographic outlier and will be a little more expensive because the scholarship was smaller and the higher cost of travel). At UCONN she got offered the STEM Honors with a scholarship which was a complete and pleasant surprise to us–we actually thought the UCONN might be out of reach financially too (it is expensive for out of state). Both WPI and RPI were on the wish list pending enough scholarship, and the number of emails that she got from RPI begging her to apply and advertising their amazing merit scholarships lead us to believe that she might get a big one. She did get a Leadership Scholarship of almost 19,000 per year at RPI, but the remaining balance is still a big stretch for us. Haven’t received the letter yet from WPI to learn if she got any scholarships, but given that my daughters very thoroughly prepared application and supplements were totally overlooked until last week AFTER the March 20 decision day, we are extremely doubtful that she even made it on any list for consideration for the Foisie. Private schools just seem to be out of reach for us financially even with some merit scholarship.
We live overseas but are from New England originally. Since our daughter is going to be in the US for college on her own, we wanted her near family in the event of an emergency or whatever. I have two nephews in Connecticut, a stepbrother in Framingham, MA, several cousins in Boston and RI, and our parents live in Maine. She has never really lived in the states except for vacations, so she is going to have a lot of culture shock to contend with, not to mention adjusting to the weather–though she is really looking forward to seasons and winter.