Visitors from China

On Friday the Office of Admissions welcomed 28 students from China to campus. In addition a handful of teachers and parents joined the group for a full day on campus. All students attend the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University and are part of the new IB program at the school. The Director of College Counseling, Bruce Hammond, organized the trip. We were pleased that they were able to include WPI in their plans as they were only in the Boston area for a short time.

In addition to a campus tour, information session and lunch, the students had a chance to split up into small groups and chat with both admissions staff and current WPI students on topics ranging from the admissions process to student life at a US university. A couple of current WPI students, who had attended the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, also joined for some Q & A.

A great day was had by all and we hope to see some of these juniors in high school applying to WPI next year.

Ed

Beyond Feb 1st

Looks like our applications are at 6,625 and counting as a few more trickle in with February 1st postmarks. Our growth was mostly among female applicants with an 11% increase compared to only a 1% increase in male applicants.

More to come on the applicant pool in the coming days.

Ed

PS - Our Early Action Round 2 letters should mail tomorrow....think your app might be incomplete? Give us a call...still close to 300 have not been reviewed because they are incomplete.

Application Update

As we close in on our application deadline...February 1st....students are still submitting applications at a good clip. Close to 200 applications have been submitted on-line over the weekend and we still have about 30 hours to the deadline. It looks like we will have another record setting year at WPI. With over 6,400 applications so far this year, we will easily exceed last year's total of 6,284. Glad to see that the interest in WPI is remaining high!!

Best,

Ed

PS - If you applied Early Action Round II, and are waiting on a decision, please remember the notification date this year is February 10th. We hope to have the decisions in the mail by the end of the week.

Only 4 days to go....

We are rapidly approaching the 2010 application deadline...only 4 days to go. If you are still putting the finishing touches on your application be sure to submit by 11:59PM on Monday or if applying by paper get that Feb 1st postmark!!

Questions? e-mail admissions@wpi.edu or me directly at econnor@wpi.edu

Have a great weekend...

Ed

Enrollment Form On-Line

I am pleased to announce that our new on-line enrollment form is now live. If you visit the admitted student site you can access it through the forms link. While I hope everyone that submits the form will be enrolling at WPI, it can also be used by those students wishing to decline our offer of admission. Why would anyone want to do that!! :)

Ed

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to all of the students who have received good news from WPI!! If you haven't seen this year's "Congratulations" Video check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/WPIAdmissions#p/a/u/1/Ek-LeAELros

As we approach our application deadline of February 1st I am pleased to see that interest in WPI remains high. Our application numbers have risen about 5% over last year with another noticeable increase in students applying to WPI from outside New England. More to come on our applicant pool in February.

If you've started an application, but haven't submitted it yet, only 14 days to go!!

Ed

Happy New Year - WPI student accepts a challenge

As students head back to high school and our office opens for the first time in 2010, I hope everyone had a restful, enjoyable holiday season. It's hard to believe 2010 is here!! For the more "mature" readers...10 years since Y2K? Now that makes me feel old!!

I got an e-mail forwarded to me from one of our Physics Professors a few days ago and I wanted to share it:

"A few days back a TV anchor joked that figuring out the NFL playoff scenario was harder than solving Rubik's cube. He got an email from a viewer who offered to prove him right by unscrambling the cube in less time than it took the anchor to explain the playoffs. The offer was accepted, and the anchor and his youthful opponent went head to head. The anchor spoke as fast as he could, while the young man turned his attention to the well scrambled Rubik's cubes that had been placed in front of him.

Wonder of wonders, the young fellow managed to unscramble not one, but three, Rubik's cubes before the anchor had time to get to the end of his explanation. The anchor then gave up. Time: well under two minutes.

Punch line: the unscrambler was Andy Camann, a junior majoring in Aerospace Engineering at WPI. I found the performance truly heartwarming!"


You too can enjoy it by going to the YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUbK2mXUpL4