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[quote=Anonymous]As PP whose DC was accepted, I think there are two possible explanations here:

1) Purdue's yield rate went way up last year, and they had to scramble like crazy to find housing for all of the students (converting basement rooms in dorms to be housing and contracting with apartment complexes, for example).  They may be admitting fewer students this year as a result , so they want to see the full EA and RD pool together to hit their admit number.

2) Yield protection?  Although the fact that Purdue's yield was higher than expected last year, which is what drove the housing problems, would suggest they don't need to yield protect much.  My DC and I visited Purdue for an engineering info session in the fall plus have family who attended, so demonstrated some pretty heavy interest.

A third, somewhat less likely, explanation is that Purdue to quietly trying to change their mix of in state and out of state students so being harder on the OOS applicants.  For CS and engineering, though, there's a balancing act they have to pull to make sure the ranking stays high.  I think this one is unlikely.[/quote]

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