College Fairs

In addition to the 600 or so high schools we will visit, the 15 evening information sessions we are offering, and the close to 50 nights of interviews planned around the globe, WPI will be represented at about 200 college fairs around the world.

Even in this day of high tech gadgets and on-line applications college fairs are still they way a high percentage of our students learn more about WPI and all we offer. It's a great opportunity to ask some of your questions face to face and to meet one of the admissions staff and/or a current student and alum. Will we be at your local college fair? Check out our fall listing of college fairs that went live earlier today.

Ed

New Blogs

If you are wondering what's happened to our student bloggers...wait no more. With all of our bloggers graduating last spring there's been a bit of a lull in the student voice over the summer. We'll have some new blogs up next week, along with a nice new look for the student blog page.

Visit www.admissions.wpi.edu/blogs.html next week when we are up and running!!

Ed

WPI Web Application

The WPI application went live earlier today...sorry for the delay.

Apply away!

Ed

Travel Kicks Off and an Application Delay

I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful holiday weekend as the unofficial end to summer is upon us
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The end of summer means the beginning to the college admissions recruitment season...things got kicked off today as Bonnie Hall headed to a program at the Academy of the Pacific Rim in Boston. Michelle and Karen will both being heading to international locations over the weekend; Latin America and India respectively. It promises to be a busy fall and we hope to see many prospective students on the road.

Interest in WPI remains very high with an increase of visitors over the summer and more than 17,500 students requesting information from WPI so far this year. We already have over a dozen applications in hand, with the first one coming in in mid-August. If you are one of the early birds hang in there...no decisions will mail until mid-December.

Speaking of applications, the Common Application and the Universal Application are up and running, however the WPI on-line application won't go live until next week. We had hoped to be live in August, however we've made substantial improvements to the application and testing has taken a bit longer than anticipated. If you prefer to use our application, hang in there...we'll be up and running by the end of next week...I promise:)

Enjoy the great weather and hope to see you at WPI soon!!

Ed

International Interviews

Our international interview locations were just finalized earlier today and added to the web. If you are following from overseas we may be coming to your hometown!! We'll be visiting 28 international locations and be offering the opportunity for prospective students and their families to meet with our WPI representative. If you are interested in setting up an interview
e-mail intl_admissions@wpi.edu.

If we are not coming to your hometown we are always willing to set-up a phone interview. The best time is typically in November as the travel season winds down. You can also e-mail intl_admissions@wpi.edu to arrange that.

Ed





PS - The domestic locations for interviews have been posted for a while and are filling up fast....e-mail admissions@wpi.edu if you are looking to make arrangements for a domestic location.

Move-In Day

While many of our first year students have already arrived over the last few days, Sunday is the big day for most of the families. Look forward to seeing many of you then.

While it may be a bit late for designing your residence hall room for this year a colleague forwarded this to me and I thought I'd share:

http://www.designyourdorm.com/

Enjoy!!

Ed

New Inquiry Form and Common App Supplement

The summer brings all sorts of projects...and we've been busy!!

Earlier today we launched a new on-line inquiry form. In addition to being more attractive, all students, whether they are first-year or transfer candidates, will go to the same form and complete only the information that pertains to them. If you been meaning to request some information check it out!!

Our supplement for the Common Application has also gone live. A pdf version will be available on our web site in the next few days. If you've started the Common Application you can access the on-line version directly through their web site. Don't forget our Early Action deadline has changed to November 10th!!

Last but not least our evening information sessions across the country have been finalized. Want to learn more? http://admissions.wpi.edu/Visit/infosessionsoff.html

Ed