How are you supposed to get into college for engineering now?

[Anonymous]

Purdue EA decisions recently came out, and it was shocking how selective they were. I seen kids with straight As, a 1570+ SAT, and strong extracurriculars in research, building model rockets, Eagle Scout, varsity team captains, and more who got denied. Not even deferred. Just flat out denied. It is just so frustrating that here in NOVA, just getting into these extracurriculars and being top of the class is ridiculously hard. Yet, many of these stop students can't get even get into Purdue. I honestly don't know what Ivy Leagues or schools like Berkeley and Michigan are looking for.

[Anonymous]

What were the GPAs and math and science classes?

[Anonymous]

Step One: Stop underestimating the value (and selectivity) of schools other than "Ivy Leagues or schools like Berkeley and Michigan."

[Anonymous]

I, for one, look forward to America’s engineering and computer science dominance in the coming years. Because we should be ready to kick ass I those disciplines.

[Anonymous]

*in those disciplines.

[Anonymous]

My DS was rejected by Purdue EA. Sure, it's a bummer, but now he doesn't have to go to Indiana.

DS is already accepted to Penn State Engineering at University Park.

He has plenty of options though: Marquette; Dayton; Ole Miss; LSU; Penn State

Villanova was a deferral, so that too was a bummer, but not rejected yet...

And we wait on JMU, UVA, and VT...

Just because Purdue or another school rejects, it's not the end of the world. Lots of opportunities out there for all kinds of students.

[Anonymous]

It is a mystery, but someone at Purdue would know. Sounds like, perhaps, Purdue is using some sort of yield algorithm via enrollment management consultants. I don't want to say yield protection because that gets people riled up - I don't think it's that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a mystery, but someone at Purdue would know. Sounds like, perhaps, Purdue is using some sort of yield algorithm via enrollment management consultants. I don't want to say yield protection because that gets people riled up - I don't think it's that simple.

It's one of the top engineering schools. They aren't yield protecting. No one should be surprised by a rejection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS was rejected by Purdue EA. Sure, it's a bummer, but now he doesn't have to go to Indiana.

DS is already accepted to Penn State Engineering at University Park.

He has plenty of options though: Marquette; Dayton; Ole Miss; LSU; Penn State

Villanova was a deferral, so that too was a bummer, but not rejected yet...

And we wait on JMU, UVA, and VT...

Just because Purdue or another school rejects, it's not the end of the world. Lots of opportunities out there for all kinds of students.

So your DS applied to at least 10 schools? That’s part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Purdue EA decisions recently came out, and it was shocking how selective they were. I seen kids with straight As, a 1570+ SAT, and strong extracurriculars in research, building model rockets, Eagle Scout, varsity team captains, and more who got denied. Not even deferred. Just flat out denied. It is just so frustrating that here in NOVA, just getting into these extracurriculars and being top of the class is ridiculously hard. Yet, many of these stop students can't get even get into Purdue. I honestly don't know what Ivy Leagues or schools like Berkeley and Michigan are looking for.

Go to a less selective school for engineering. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

This is like asking how to get into med school. It’s difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Purdue EA decisions recently came out, and it was shocking how selective they were. I seen kids with straight As, a 1570+ SAT, and strong extracurriculars in research, building model rockets, Eagle Scout, varsity team captains, and more who got denied. Not even deferred. Just flat out denied. It is just so frustrating that here in NOVA, just getting into these extracurriculars and being top of the class is ridiculously hard. Yet, many of these stop students can't get even get into Purdue. I honestly don't know what Ivy Leagues or schools like Berkeley and Michigan are looking for.

Just stoop

My kid had none of those and got into MIT

And for gods sake engineers can come for a ton of schools you fools pay OOS tuition for what?
Now your going to send a kid to Indiana lol your kid doesn’t deserve college

Egal scout omg really ?

Didn’t you hear proud boys and oath keepers are recruiting and starting Boy Scout troops ?. Yes fact

Maybe you should just stoop day drinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Purdue EA decisions recently came out, and it was shocking how selective they were. I seen kids with straight As, a 1570+ SAT, and strong extracurriculars in research, building model rockets, Eagle Scout, varsity team captains, and more who got denied. Not even deferred. Just flat out denied. It is just so frustrating that here in NOVA, just getting into these extracurriculars and being top of the class is ridiculously hard. Yet, many of these stop students can't get even get into Purdue. I honestly don't know what Ivy Leagues or schools like Berkeley and Michigan are looking for.

Just stoop

My kid had none of those and got into MIT

And for gods sake engineers can come for a ton of schools you fools pay OOS tuition for what?
Now your going to send a kid to Indiana lol your kid doesn’t deserve college

Egal scout omg really ?

Didn’t you hear proud boys and oath keepers are recruiting and starting Boy Scout troops ?. Yes fact

haha..not around here. DS' troop had a lot of minorities, including Jews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is like asking how to get into med school. It’s difficult.

But it’s not. There are many less-selective schools that are very good at engineering. I have no idea why OP seems not to know such schools exist.

[Anonymous]

Isn't Purdue a top5 program in the US?

I get that it's a hard admit but I would expect this, no?