Anonymous wrote:Has anybody been admitted to Purdue through EA but then not admitted to the honors college? We are family friends with someone who had this happen and are having a hard time understanding. Kid was valedictorian, 1500+ SAT, ECs galore. Just seems odd.

DC accepted CS but didn't see honors college, 1550 sat and several ECs while UMD accepted honors for CS. Is there separate application to get into honors at Purdue?

Has anybody been admitted to Purdue through EA but then not admitted to the honors college? We are family friends with someone who had this happen and are having a hard time understanding. Kid was valedictorian, 1500+ SAT, ECs galore. Just seems odd.

Purdue had a 15% admit rate for CS this year. The average SAT Match 760 and the average UW GPA 3.9. Hopefully some of the EA deferrals found later success. CS is the most competitive major at almost every school these days so it's very hard to gauge.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:My commiserations to those deferred. My completely wild ass guess for publics colleges is that they got snowed with apps, couldn’t handle the volume and kicked the can down the road to RD. EA decisions for publics as it were, already come out pretty late and don’t really change the calculus for commit. (Unless for ED2, but that’s such a small minority).

I bet a lot of deferrals for the strong stat students here in this thread will turn into admits, and you lot will still go to VT, UVA and UMD. Hang tough.

When students are applying to 20+ schools it just makes sense to defer a lot of them--see who sticks around after ED agreements are pulled.
What floored me was when I saw that VT accepted nearly 4000 students from its WAITLIST in 2020--not even just deferring to RD. That's really kicking the can down the road. In the end, they still tend to fluctuate around a 65-70% acceptance rate (lower for engineering), but they really do make kids suffer for that acceptance.

Wasn't that the year after they accepted far too many and didn't have a place to house them?

Yeah, they are notoriously bad at enrollment management. For decades so it can't be explained away just by new popularity.

As a former trustee/Visitor for a smaller Virginia public that competes for the same students, it was 100% clear that they did this on purpose. Both times and also back in 2015/16, as I recall.

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Anonymous wrote:My commiserations to those deferred. My completely wild ass guess for publics colleges is that they got snowed with apps, couldn’t handle the volume and kicked the can down the road to RD. EA decisions for publics as it were, already come out pretty late and don’t really change the calculus for commit. (Unless for ED2, but that’s such a small minority).

I bet a lot of deferrals for the strong stat students here in this thread will turn into admits, and you lot will still go to VT, UVA and UMD. Hang tough.

When students are applying to 20+ schools it just makes sense to defer a lot of them--see who sticks around after ED agreements are pulled.
What floored me was when I saw that VT accepted nearly 4000 students from its WAITLIST in 2020--not even just deferring to RD. That's really kicking the can down the road. In the end, they still tend to fluctuate around a 65-70% acceptance rate (lower for engineering), but they really do make kids suffer for that acceptance.

Wasn't that the year after they accepted far too many and didn't have a place to house them?

Yeah, they are notoriously bad at enrollment management. For decades so it can't be explained away just by new popularity.

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Anonymous wrote:My commiserations to those deferred. My completely wild ass guess for publics colleges is that they got snowed with apps, couldn’t handle the volume and kicked the can down the road to RD. EA decisions for publics as it were, already come out pretty late and don’t really change the calculus for commit. (Unless for ED2, but that’s such a small minority).

I bet a lot of deferrals for the strong stat students here in this thread will turn into admits, and you lot will still go to VT, UVA and UMD. Hang tough.

When students are applying to 20+ schools it just makes sense to defer a lot of them--see who sticks around after ED agreements are pulled.
What floored me was when I saw that VT accepted nearly 4000 students from its WAITLIST in 2020--not even just deferring to RD. That's really kicking the can down the road. In the end, they still tend to fluctuate around a 65-70% acceptance rate (lower for engineering), but they really do make kids suffer for that acceptance.

Wasn't that the year after they accepted far too many and didn't have a place to house them?

Anonymous wrote:My commiserations to those deferred. My completely wild ass guess for publics colleges is that they got snowed with apps, couldn’t handle the volume and kicked the can down the road to RD. EA decisions for publics as it were, already come out pretty late and don’t really change the calculus for commit. (Unless for ED2, but that’s such a small minority).

I bet a lot of deferrals for the strong stat students here in this thread will turn into admits, and you lot will still go to VT, UVA and UMD. Hang tough.

When students are applying to 20+ schools it just makes sense to defer a lot of them--see who sticks around after ED agreements are pulled.
What floored me was when I saw that VT accepted nearly 4000 students from its WAITLIST in 2020--not even just deferring to RD. That's really kicking the can down the road. In the end, they still tend to fluctuate around a 65-70% acceptance rate (lower for engineering), but they really do make kids suffer for that acceptance.

white male, CS major, FCPS 4.1 WGPA 1450 SAT
deferred.

Anonymous wrote:UVA is not on par with tech or UMD. Sorry

For CS, it really doesn't matter honestly (and I'm a Hokie).

OP - Sorry to hear, Purdue is a great school, but sounds like your DC has other great options if Purdue doesn't work out.

Way too many Asian boys want to major in CS + racial quota + yield protection

UVA is not on par with tech or UMD. Sorry

My commiserations to those deferred. My completely wild ass guess for publics colleges is that they got snowed with apps, couldn’t handle the volume and kicked the can down the road to RD. EA decisions for publics as it were, already come out pretty late and don’t really change the calculus for commit. (Unless for ED2, but that’s such a small minority).

I bet a lot of deferrals for the strong stat students here in this thread will turn into admits, and you lot will still go to VT, UVA and UMD. Hang tough.

My son - white male in at Purdue CS & honors college. 3.8 gpa, 1480 SAT. NMSF. Pretty much any music/band extracurricular you’d care to name but not much else in terms of extracurriculars.

PP meant SAT