Early to Bed Early to Rise

Tomorrow will be our first admitted student event of the year at WPI. We are expecting approximately 400 students at the Winter Preview event from across the country tomorrow, including a number of students from the west coast. It will be an early morning for many families as they head to campus for 9AM registration....but a great day is planned and we'll be there ready and waiting.

We'll be handing out a few prizes during the opening remarks...one for the student coming the greatest distance and one for the first student to arrive tomorrow...so if you happen to be reading this tonight get an early start:)

Ed

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