WPI acceptance rate and admissions statistics
WPI admitted 7,647 of 12,355 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 61.9%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into WPI counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
WPI acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 12,355 | 7,647 | 61.9% | 1,300 | 17.0% |
| 2024-25 | 12,559 | 7,555 | 60.2% | 1,366 | 18.1% |
| 2023-24 | 11,809 | 6,908 | 58.5% | 1,360 | 19.7% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at WPI
WPI waitlist
WPI SAT and ACT scores
SAT and ACT ranges: Not published. WPI’s Common Data Set leaves section C9 blank for every year shown.
What WPI says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors WPI rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Class rank, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Class rank, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Class rank, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
WPI testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional for first-year applicants (WPI ended its 2021-2024 test-blind pilot and 'remains test optional'; scores never negatively affect review). CDS 2025-26 C8 lists SAT/ACT as 'Consider if Submitted' for Fall 2027.
From WPI’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
C9 is blank in every year because WPI did not consider test scores for these entering classes.
WPI acceptance rate questions
- What is the WPI acceptance rate?
- WPI's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 12,355 first-year applicants and 7,647 admitted, an acceptance rate of 61.9%. It was 60.2% in 2024-25 and 58.5% in 2023-24.
- What is the WPI early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 310 of 397 early decision applicants were admitted (78.1%), against 61.9% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
- What SAT scores do WPI students have?
- WPI's Common Data Set publishes no SAT ranges for these years. Its current testing policy is below.
- How many students get off the WPI waitlist?
- In 2025-26, WPI offered 2,293 applicants a place on the waitlist; 980 accepted one, and 460 were admitted from it.
- Does WPI require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional for first-year applicants (WPI ended its 2021-2024 test-blind pilot and 'remains test optional'; scores never negatively affect review). CDS 2025-26 C8 lists SAT/ACT as 'Consider if Submitted' for Fall 2027.
Applying to WPI?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what WPI says it weighs.
Source: WPI Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with WPI. All official acceptance rates