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[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.

[/quote]Rigor across high schools is so subjective. You see kids getting into Ivies who might actually have lower 'academic' floors than a kid at Purdue with a 32 ACT. Case in point: a 2027 athletic recruit with any Ivy offer just hit my radar with a 4.58 GPA but an 1120 SAT. Even with athletic context, that’s a massive gap. It makes you wonder how many kids are currently at elite TO (test-optional) schools who wouldn't even get a look at Purdue because their test scores wouldn't make the cut.[/quote]

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