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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sorry for these schools. Purdue is a highly ranked engineering program.  UMD too.  Oh well.[/quote]You … feel sorry for them? I feel fairly certain that most great engineering schools would rather have high-scoring students and a lower yield rate. They probably feel bad for their colleagues at the small prestige schools that admit a bunch of test optional kids in ED and then don’t have room for high-scoring kids. [/quote]

Incredible schools.  But no, if you take a look at Purdue’s incoming students profile (matriculates), their test scores are very low.  [/quote]

1360 median SAT and 32 ACT is hardly “very low” when you’re test required.[/quote]

The middle 50% SAT for Purdue College of Engineering (West Lafayette) is roughly 1380–1510, ACT 32–35, and weighted GPA typically 3.9–4.0. Purdue enrolls 2,800–3,100 first-year engineering students per year at the main campus.

That means roughly 700–800 incoming engineering students each year have a 1510+ SAT. No Ivy comes close to matching that raw number of high-stats engineering admits in a single class.

What separates Purdue is the rigor: tough grading curves, limited grade inflation, and success earned through actual college performance rather than high-school GPA momentum. Some schools are elite because of the strength of the students they admit; Purdue is elite because of both the strength of their students class and the strength of the curriculum that a curriculum filters them regardless of incoming stats.

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As long as you are aware… that 1510 is the 25 percentile line at many many schools, whereas it’s the 75 percentile line at Purdue Engineering.[/quote]

As long as you are aware...many, many schools are still test optional so far fewer students actually meet that 75% score you reference.  For context, from a recent thread here about schools "hovering up 1530 SAT students":

Percent of students who submitted an SAT score:
Princeton: 56%
Cornell: 45%
Northwestern: 46%
Michigan: 51%
Tufts: 38%
Amherst: 39%

Purdue: 97%!
Purdue's freshmen class hovers around 9,500 so the number of students at 75% is larger than many smaller "top" schools often mentioned here.

Additionally,
The admit rate for Purdue CS is 43% but the 75% score is 1530.
The admit for Purdue Engineering is 35% and the 75% score is 1520
The admit for Purdue School of Science is 46% and the 75% score is 1510

Also, from another thread here about "where do NMF go"...The number of NMF at each school:
Purdue - 260
Mit - 154
Princeton - 116
Cornell - 54
Northwestern - 75
Tufts - 63

Again, Purdue is a large school...and it attracts many high stats kids.  If you consider the sheer number of students who fit in each of these categories, it adds up to many, many very qualified students.

So, OP, it seems they actually DO attend!

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