Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RPI publishes 67% (Fall 2025). Out-of-state applicants got in at 68%; international at 56%.
Acceptance rate
What RPI's 67% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits RPI reports itself.
Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Test-Optional for 2026-27
- Policy
Official policy: 'Any student who applies to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an undergraduate in the fall of 2027 will be able to choose whether or not to submit SAT or ACT scores.' Exception: applicants to the Physician-Scientist (B.S./M.D.) Program must submit official test scores. No changes announced beyond the 2027 cycle.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1375–1510sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 30–34
- Average HS GPA
- Not published by the school
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (ED); Dec 1, 2026 (EA); Jan 6, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 15, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 5,714
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $64,081
- Category
- Private
- Admissions site
- www.rpi.edu
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Sources
- RPI test policy (2026-27)
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
Test policy and deadlines last verified 2026-08-17.
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