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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid lost his merit aid but wasn’t a great student. If your kid is a good student and mostly got As in high school hopefully he should be fine. Talk to him about it.[/quote]

My kid got nearly all As in high school.

She is now in a big ten engineering program where she is above average according to the admission stats.  Her merit aid continuation requirement is fairly low (good standing).

She is currently a B+ student (thank you, humanities elective!) with mostly Bs in her technical classes.  Statistically she is well into the top half of the class but not in the top quarter -- she and I looked carefully at the distribution statistics for each class.

I'm telling you this detail because although I would like my kid to have done better, she is proud of her effort and her grades.  I would not be confident that a freshman engineering student would do much better after watching my child this past fall. Maybe your kid will, but you aren't worried about that here.

She will get into her major, and she will keep her merit aid.  We turned down other schools where these kind of grades might not have resulted in that outcome.[/quote]

May I ask which Big 10 Engineering gives merit aid, please?  And did that bring your out of state tuition to your state flagship?  Thank you.[/quote]

This is probably the Purdue poster[/quote]

Not the Purdue poster, but they give very little merit aid to OOS engineering students.  I think the most that has ever been posted is $8K and you have to have absolutely top scores, and it is still rare.  Purdue is pretty cheap without the merit, they have had a 6 year tuition freeze, and they know the OOS kids will come regardless.  My child is looking there and I have done a lot of research on it.  Most OOS merit packages are given to non engineering students. [/quote]

NP here.  My ds just got merit offer from Purdue engineering for $10k.  He has top test scores but far from perfect gpa.  Purdue's tuition & room is $42k for OOS so with merit, it would only be $32k.[/quote]

I hope he is going.  You won't get a better deal than that.  Their engineering program is incredible, even compared to UMD.  We loved the campus and everything about the program when we went to visit.  A friend of the family had a job for 87K for Exxon Mobile 3 months before graduation.  They are paying for her masters.

Purdue tends to get a lot of inflated GPA's they can work with on fudging their average GPA numbers.  They do not get many ACT 35 and 36. The ones that do are usually CS and FYE.   If he had that, it increases their 50% median by a lot.  So they want him there.  Congrats! [/quote]

PP here.  Hmm, you are making me rethink.  Actually Purdue is not high on ds' list.  At #9 in US News, it is certainly the highest ranked engineering program he has applied to but being from DMV, I don't think he has much interest in being in midwest.  My concern with Purdue is the fear that it weeds out a large number of kids.  I haven't necessarily heard of Purdue as weeding out a lot of kids but assume it since it is so highly ranked but relatively easier to get into compared to similarly ranked engineering schools.  Do you know?[/quote]

80% of FYE go on to 2nd year.  If you have a 3.0 or higher, you are guaranteed placement in whichever speciality you want. If you are below there are a few that you have a 90% chance of getting into.

Of the 20% that do not go on to 2nd year, 10% change majors but stay at Purdue and the other 10% either leave the school or didn't make the cut to continue.

I thought those numbers were great and one of the only schools who were transparent about it.  We really liked the friendly and inclusive vibe at the school.  Only engineering school we visited that the kids in the student panels did anything outside of STEM at school. It was refreshing.  EPICS sounded awesome.  Have him look that up.  The labs were top notch.  The school had a much more urban feel. 
If you haven't gone, I would.  You can fly into Indianapolis and it is 50min away.  We drove out in October.  Stopped at Ohio State on the way and hit Pitt/CMU on the way back.  Very easy drive.  Out of all of those schools, Purdue ranked the best for my daughter.  Higher than UMD too, which was at the top of her list.  Personally I really liked it too.  Much more than I thought.

My only concern is that small percent you don't get the discipline you want in 2nd year.  A lot of schools, you get right into the discipline 1st year.  [/quote]

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