Worcester Polytechnic Institute acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a private college in Massachusetts, reports a 60% acceptance rate and sits in the moderately selective band. In practice that means it admits more applicants than it rejects, so a strong application is judged against an applicant pool that is already self-selected.

Use this page to see what Worcester Polytechnic Institute weighs, where it ranks among Massachusetts schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1440, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute application deadlines, 2026-27

What are my chances at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a 3.1 GPA and a 1380 SAT?

About 71% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1380 SAT, the middle of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1440 SAT comes out near 89%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

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There is no formula that guarantees a spot at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but the applicants who get in tend to do the same four things. Here is what the numbers say each one looks like.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute admitted 6,908 of the 11,809 students who applied for fall 2023, which works out to 58.5%. 1,360 enrolled. Only about 20% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Worcester Polytechnic Institute enrolls about 5,447 undergraduates in total, 33% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 13 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute reports that it neither requires nor recommends test scores, so admission turns on your transcript, rigor, and the rest of the file.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

The factors that carry the most weight at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and application essay. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Worcester Polytechnic Institute's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $78,679 per year. Tuition and fees alone are $60,965. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $43,071 a year, and it ranges from $24,018 for families earning under $30,000 to $49,716 for families earning over $110,000. 12% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Ten years after enrolling, the median Worcester Polytechnic Institute student who received federal aid earns $103,470 a year, up from $85,038 at six years. 90% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 94% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $27,000; 52% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 36 Massachusetts schools we track, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ranks #20 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Harvard University (4%) and Northeastern University (5%) sit nearby, which makes Massachusetts a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

Applicants targeting Worcester Polytechnic Institute often weigh College of Wooster, Union University (TN), and Freed-Hardeman University, which sit at a similar level. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.