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[quote=Anonymous]Have a son at Purdue in engineering - it is TOUGH!! And they over admitted last year and found themselves in a housing/town capacity/university capacity pickle. Kudos to Purdue for trying to balance things out by severely limiting acceptances this year vs just “going for the money” and continuing to crowd the school/community resources. Son’s classmates are a very balanced mix of true genius (the 1600/high rigor/ECs that read like a Nobel prize winner), the smart but balanced type (still great stats but also into liberal arts/great social skills evidenced by ECs), LOTS of international kids, and kids that you ask yourself how on earth they got in (lower than average stats) but are ironically usually getting the best grades bc they can grind out the work and are self-motivated. Purdue does not, in ANY way, enable the students. Widely known for grade deflation - sometimes test averages are in the 30s and the professors just shrug and say “guess you didn’t learn the concept, better luck next time”. [/quote]

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