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Originally Posted by cstreit

Great timing, We just got our acceptance letter from RPI for my son as well.

Its definitely highly rated in the engineering community. outside of the big schools - our top 2 are Colorado School of Mines and RPI. Both offering decent merit scholarships for ours - I think we will have to visit both. He got deferred for March decision for MIT and U of I which have top Comp Sci - but these are two smaller schools that may end up being better in the end.

DM me - would love to collaborate on your thoughts.

Cool I will DM you. My son did not get into School of Mines...he applied b/c it's in CO where we live, but he really doesn't want to go there b/c it's mostly male students and for the most part a suitcase school (Lots of local smart kids who just go home on the weekends). He does want the "college experience" and having been to Mines many times I can tell you that it really doesn't have it at all...my thought based on what I can read about RPI is that it's like Mines of the east, so might be similar in offering a great education, but a weird college experience?? Not certain.