Rochester Institute of Technology
What Rochester Institute of Technology's own numbers say, from its Common Data Set 2025-26.
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Who says yesRochester Institute of Technology
87% of students admitted to Rochester Institute of Technology go elsewhere.
Only 13% of admits enroll, so Rochester Institute of Technology admits far more students than it has seats.
Enroll13%
Go elsewhere87%
Source: Rochester Institute of Technology's Common Data Set 2025-26
5 more things the data says PRO
- Early Decision filled about 35% of the 2025-26 first-year class, more than 96% of similar colleges.
- After ED, 1,931 of 2,959 seats were left for 30,160 other applicants: about one seat for every 16.
- ED applicants were admitted at 73%, against 71.0% for everyone else: about the same rate.
- 657 students stayed on the waitlist and 164 were admitted from it (25.0%).
- Applications rose 44% from 2020-21 to 2025-26 (21,928 to 31,565), faster than 62% of colleges here.
What students say PRO
From students' own posts on Reddit and admissions forums: self-reported, unverified, never used in your odds.
- Admits who named a round split evenly, about 17 Early Action and 17 Regular Decision (one Early Decision).
- Computing and engineering are the main intended majors among posted admits, often with coding, robotics or cybersecurity behind them.
- Many admits built something real, such as apps, chatbots, games, a bot with thousands of users or an assistive device.
- Many admits led robotics, coding or tech clubs, often as founder, captain or lead programmer.
- Many admits had very strong numbers, with SAT about 1500-1600, but others with SAT near 1360-1450 or GPA near 3.6 also got in.
- Students report generous merit aid, with presidential-type awards of roughly $19K-32K a year arriving with acceptance for many early action admits.
- Students report some admits got no merit amount at first, and net cost can still be higher than other schools.
- Students report some first-choice majors are impacted, so applicants can be placed in a second-choice major or waitlisted, with decisions released program by program.
- Students report RIT emailed some early decision applicants asking them to convert to ED2, and one who asked to switch was admitted within days.
- Students describe RIT as not very selective overall (about a 70 percent acceptance rate), a safety for very strong stats.
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