Early Decision
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Worcester Polytechnic Institute's early decision acceptance rate?
Worcester Polytechnic Institute admitted 310 of its 397 Early Decision applicants, 78.1%, according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. That pool is under the 400 applications this site requires before comparing it with everyone else, so no rest-of-pool rate or multiple is given: on a pool this small, a ratio is noise, not leverage.
Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
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What Worcester Polytechnic Institute reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026
Early Decision · 310 admitted of 397 applied
78.1%
The Early Decision pool is not a random slice of the applicants — recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches are counted inside it — so this rate describes that group, not an applicant like you.
Does applying early decision to Worcester Polytechnic Institute help?
Worcester Polytechnic Institute's figures cannot say. Its Early Decision pool, 397 applications, is under the 400 this site requires before comparing it with everyone else, so there is no rest-of-pool rate or multiple to weigh. The 78.1% Early Decision rate also counts recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches, so it describes that group, not you.
Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Worcester Polytechnic Institute binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Worcester Polytechnic Institute included: you may apply Early Decision to only one school, and if admitted you commit to attend and withdraw your other applications. The usual exception is an aid offer your family cannot afford, so check the costs on this page before you apply.
Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Worcester Polytechnic Institute's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 1, 2026. Its Early Decision II round closes Jan 5, 2027. Regular Decision applications are due Feb 1, 2027. Early Decision is binding, so compare the costs on this page before that date, not after an offer arrives.
Source: the Common App requirements grid, 2026-27 cycle, checked Sep 27, 2026.
What families actually pay (AY 2023–24)
Early Decision is binding, so accepting one ends the option of comparing two aid offers. These are the published averages before that choice is made.
Average paid by students receiving federal aid, by family income (College Scorecard).
International students are not eligible for U.S. federal aid, so they are not in this cohort and typically pay closer to the sticker price.
Across the 8 recorded cycles from 2017 to 2024, Worcester Polytechnic Institute's overall acceptance rate rose from 48.5% to 60.2%. That is the whole entering class — Early Decision, Early Action and Regular Decision together — not the Early Decision round on its own.
See the year-by-year series →Common Data Set — the school's own annual filing, published by the school itself for the cycle named beside each figure. Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.