Are you an intl from India?
When did you received this offer?
My daughter was accepted into the Liberal Arts college and did an accepted student visit.
One of the things she really liked about it was that Purdue has all of the advantages of a large campus, but the Liberal Arts college has the advantages of a small college. Like, the engineering majors take courses with 1000+ students in the class, but the Liberal arts courses are small, and it is more personalized.
One of the drawbacks is that there are a lot more structured systems in place to advertise opportunities for engineering-related majors. The English student we met said that can feel frustrating. But she also said that you eventually figure out that the university provides the same opportunities for the Liberal Arts students, and they do a really good job resourcing the Liberal Arts programs, but you have to seek it out.
The engineering students we met assumed the Liberal Arts students donât have to work nearly as hard as they do. It was almost funny. The English major scoffed at that. Another person I met spoke as if my daughter, as a prospective English major, probably wouldnât be aiming to do high level research in national journals like their top tier engineering majors aspire for. My (valedictorian) daughter (aiming for a doctorate after graduation, and who, yes, excelled in AP and IB courses in every subject and was recommended for Calculus for 10th grade) was not impressed by the attitude.
At the same time, it is just perception. The Liberal Arts majors do go on to do great things after graduation, have strong research opportunities, get good jobs, are accepted into top grad programs, and the school resources them really well for their futures. It was a really weird perception thing for my daughter to experience, though. It wasnât the sort of thing that would deter her from going. Sheâs quite secure in her intellectual abilities, and she has a shrug, âjust prove them wrongâ personality.
(((Parents with future Purdue engineering majors, you might want to warn your kids not to potentially embarrass themselves by accidentally talking down to a Liberal Arts student who could probably dance math and science circles around them. I know the acceptance rate is higher in the Liberal Arts, but you never know who youâre talking toâŠ)))
So there are pros and cons. She loved the huge campus feel, the small college dynamic, and the personalized attention, and we were surprised/confused/perplexed by the assumption that she probably wasnât as smart or ambitious or hard working as an engineering major.
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Thank you so muchâŠI am sure your daughter will do great. She has interests in AI and Anthro combination âŠlets seeâŠwill certainly explore.
Just to clarify for others reading - the largest class my engineering kid had were intro classes at around 300 students. And those large classes had mandatory recitations of about 25. Her smallest engineering class had 10 students. I havenât heard of any class at Purdue that has 1000 students.
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Anyone else still waiting for a decision?
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while iâm very happy for the people whoâve been accepted, I really want to know if anyone got rejected after being deferred this wave. I want to know if I should keep my hopes up or look at my other schools that I have gotten into.
Yes⊠waitingâŠ
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We are also waiting
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Waiting as well
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Thatâs interesting. It was a student there who told me the 1000 number. Maybe they were exaggerating to make it sound worse than it is.
Looked it up. This is from Purdue.edu:
âThe College of Engineering has a student-to-faculty ratio of 22.8:1 and an average class size of around 45 students.
As a large university, your class sizes will vary from 10 students to 400 students. Generally, class sizes will get smaller as you progress deeper into your major over the years.
Faculty-led lectures in science and math range in size from approximately 150-350 students but are complemented by mandatory recitation sessions that meet once or twice a week. These small-group recitation sessions divide students into classes of 20-30 and are led by teaching assistants to go back over the class material from the week, do group practice problems, and allow a smaller environment for students to ask questions.
Engineering-specific courses will typically be much smaller than the general math and science courses, and exact sizes will also be determined by the overall size of your engineering major.
Itâs important to note that, while we canât avoid some of the larger class sizes due to the size of our university, we do provide a variety of free resources for our students to get one-on-one support regardless of the class. Those mandatory recitation sections for the large-lecture courses are just one of the ways we try to provide a small-school setting for our students.â
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My son - applied RD to FYE. Heâs convinced that even though heâs had âcompleteâ in his portal since Feb., none of his documents were readâŠwho knows.
My suspicion is that we all might be at the very top of the waiting list (or it could be wishful thinking) since we werenât assigned a decision yet?
I donât think there is any engineering course with 1000 students. Even there is, it will be divided into sections. Each section will have at most 120 students. Here I am talking about majors with large enrollment. Years ago I heard ME200 has many sections with total over 1000.
Purdue has survey data for start, 5-year, 10-year salary of students from different majors. Unfortunately the numbers for liberal art degrees are a bit concerning.
Speaking of volumes, the admitted tours for the College of Engineering are fully booked, also the waitlist are also full. It really gives a good heads up of how the packed the classes will be.
Historically theyâve added more tours so keep looking.
So what Iâve read is that these batch acceptances that are used by some universities approach the batches by the endpoints first. In other words, clear strong acceptances (based on schoolâs needs/values/etc and application strength) go out early, as do clear strong rejections, and all but top waitlists go out early, too. Then they slowly release the next set of decisions depending on responses from acceptances.
So my understanding is that if you are very high in waitlist, they are holding on to you, which would make sense, but I donât know. It makes me very nervous that my son is just hanging there. He had been so extremely excited about Purdue CS, although he is OOS. He is beginning to dampen his enthusiasm. He has an acceptance to another school that he is very excited about (with good merit aid), so I am no longer holding my breath. But he said he would have a hard time deciding between that school and Purdue.
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But here I state my theory (again): MOST of the CS applicants havenât received any result.
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