Please chance me for Purdue and other schools (3.59 gpa) [PA resident, 1220 SAT (1240 super), prefer <$35k, IT major]

In-state. Budget buster. Big time football. Look at you.

The new favorite ?

Congrats.

Congratulations :tada::clap:
Can you go post stats&results (major, UP, Fall or Summer) here:

Do you have favorites so far among these different admissions?

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That looks like a cool and very flexible major! It doesn’t have heavy technical requirements but you can make it as technical as you want it to be, and choose your own area(s) of focus or even design your own custom focus area.

At in-state rates, this is going to be a hard offer to beat. Would you pay more for Purdue?

I know you don’t necessarily need specific supports related to autism, but if you’d like to gather information about the experiences of other neurodivergent students on campus, there’s a Neurodiverse PSU Discord group that you could check out.

Congrats on a great acceptance!

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My dad did a netprice calc and it said 42k for penn state. Do you think it will be lower than that?

The PSU website shows $20,644 tuition & fees, plus $14,474 food & housing, for a total of $35,118 before additional expenses like travel, books, etc. But 7K in additional expenses seems awfully high. (Those are 2024-2025 numbers, so it’s probably gone up a little, but $42 still sounds high for in-state.)

I see your point, though - it looks like Purdue Polytech is actually less expensive OOS than PSU in-state. Pennsylvania is definitely not a state that makes higher ed affordable for its residents! Great school and program, though, if you can swing it.

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Not sure I understand. Polytechnic is $43,086 for direct costs:

$18802 tuition
$9718 Gen Expense
$234 fitness
$40 activity fee
$572 Diffferential
$13,720 Housing

Penn State = $35118 direct costs.

I don’t see that Purdue’s almost-10K line item for “Gen Expense” has a counterpart that’s included in the $35,118 Penn State number. The PSU number is tution+fees+room&board - there’s no general expenses number in there.

It’s direct billed. Not indirect.

The lower cost for Polytechnic people see appears to be non W Lafayette -at least as I see it.

It wouldn’t be logical for Polytechnic at W Lafayette to cost less than other on campus programs.

I have a slight problem and I am very worried. I accidentally reported my latin 2 honors class twice in one year. Should I be worried or am I overreacting?

I wouldn’t worry - but you can inform admission officers if you are concerned.

As long as you listed all the classes you are taking, it’s not going to impact your decisions.

I’m sure they already know that you couldn’t have taken the same class twice in one year. It isn’t as if you reported something plausible that you actually didn’t do. I wouldn’t worry, but as tsbna said, touch base with your AO if you’re concerned about it.

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Update; I got into FIU, USF, The University of Scranton, and George Mason.

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An embarrassment of riches.

What do you mean?

You were worried about getting in somewhere.

Now your problem is - OMG - I’ve got Albany, St. Joes, FIU (not easy), USF (not easy), Scranton, George Mason.

Am I missing any?

And maybe more are coming.

You have so many great landing spots that I think are affordable - how do you choose one??

In other words, you did really well - you are LOADED with acceptances. Hopefully all affordable. That’s an embarrassment of riches.

Of course, it doesn’t get easier. Then you have to choose one :slight_smile: But that’s a nice problem to have, even if not easy.

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It’s just a saying. In your case, it means that you have many good results and schools to choose from.

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It’s just a saying here. It means that you are so lucky because you have many good choices.

Congrats!

Accepted to Purdue! They have not announced any aid.

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Congrats - that’s great for you.

Unlikely to get any money (out of state, they do less merit) but congrats to you. When my son applied (it was 6 years ago), his merit came on the admission letter. But they give less now from what I understand. Their cost is already very competitive - but make sure you can afford it - don’t attend for the name.

Congrats to you.

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Rejected from Tampa, Accepted to RIT.

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