How are ya’ll with this waitlist? Depressed
yes bro… too depressed. I got into Purdue for ME(2nd choice, 1st choice AERO Eng). Just waiting to hear back from them.
For most people, a mechanical engineering degree will get you where you want to be if you are interested in aerospace. We went to the mechanical engineering admitted students program at Georgia Tech and the percentage of those graduates that end up in the Aerospace industry, working for people like Space X, Is quite large. According to them, and they are obviously biased, this is a much better degree as far as what you can do with it 
. I definitely would look at the percentages of Aerospace companies that hire mechanical engineers. I think you will find it is no disadvantage if you’re just talking about a bachelors degree. Of course this was the ME department but according to them Aerospace engineers typically go on to get a PhD. It depends on your career goals.
My expectations are the career results are the same at Purdue. It has an outstanding engineering program that is very highly respected. We have a family member there, and the opportunities they have received to do upper level Research as a sophomore has been unbelievable.
Do know, however, that you are not admitted to ME at Purdue. You are admitted to the first year engineering program and have to apply to your engineering major.
If you end up at Purdue your first year, I would encourage you to make the most of it, get involved in the campus and see if you can be happy there. It seems to be a great place! I would only transfer if you are unhappy or you are in state for Georgia Tech, and Purdue is a financial burden.
How did you get rejected from one engineering major but accepted to another. I thought Purdue’s FYE makes it so it doesn’t matter what engineering major you put on your application.
I’m not sure that’s how it works. I think to go into mechanical engineering you have to be first admitted into pre-mechanical engineering by the admissions office. Then if you complete FYE with appropriate grades, you are admitted into mechanical engineering.
Double check this, but my current Georgia Tech freshman was admitted to Purdue for mechanical engineering and that was my understanding of how it works. Of course they started out in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, and have now switched majors😂
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AFAIK every acceptance letter for engineering says accepted into FYE. Maybe you’re thinking of another school? When I got in for AeroE it says FYE
You are likely right. It has been a year since we went through this so it has been a long time since I read the Purdue acceptance letter! He was admitted to GT in December so frankly I didn’t pay much attention to the Purdue process, other than knowing you had to apply for your major after FYE. My understanding was some of the more in demand majors are limited, but it may just be you need to get a higher GPA rather than the base requirement to be admitted.
Purdue is a great school!
Good for him getting into GT. Unfortunately they rejected me but it’s not like it was unexpected. They reported a 9.4% OOS acceptance rate EA! I’m thrilled with Purdue though so it worked out.
So actually I got admitted to Indianapolis campus. So if you are admitted to Indy campus you are directly admitted to your choice of major. The curriculum is exactly the same.