Any guidance to appeal a rejection to FYE by changing Major? Son has excellent test scores and GPA (1440 SAT, 34 ACT, 4.33 weighted almost all STEM AP and honors courses) and was rejected for FYE. His extracurriculars include 4-year multi-sport athlete and captain, NHS, and tutors/coaches young kids. I spoke with the Admissions Office and it sounds like it was a matter of the “holistic nature” of his resume and the fact that FYE was extraordinarily competitive this year. He was so laser focused on FYE that he did not select an alternative major on the original application. That was an oversight on our part, but now trying to make it right and get him admitted. He has no problem majoring in another STEM area and CODO into engineering at a later date.
There should be an appeal the decision button on the portal. If you need assistance, your child can email admissions: admissions@purdue.edu
A word of caution…there is no guarantee that your child will be able to CODO into engineering from a different major. The most popular engineering majors are often closed because they are at capacity.
IMO, it’s a risky move if your child really wants to study engineering to accept a secondary major, and my advice would be to go to another school where he’s been admitted for engineering.
Throwing some other STEM major in after not having anything listed is a tough one to overcome. You’d probably have better luck trying to get engineering acceptance to Indianapolis. But I have no crystal ball. If you’re full pay, you could appeal to be admitted as exploratory/undecided at WLaf and be explicit if admitted will attend. Exploratory is a defined path to engineering but also competitive. saying exploratory will look like an end run around getting denied FYE but your student will have to do a bang up job on the appeal explaining why they really want some College of Science or Polytechnic major too. Focus should be on why Purdue is a good fit for your student because of what your student brings to the campus. Good luck. I’m sorry the all or nothing gamble got nothing.
I assumed you were talking about FYE, not Daniels. In this case, do a DEEP dive on Purdue’s initiatives on Daniels—biz school is one of 4 or 5 pillars of the current strategic plan, along with “One Health” and some other stuff. Connecting to why what they are doing is a great fit for what your student brings to the table as a student as well as fits with her goals might be helpful to move the needle.
“I’m sorry the all or nothing gamble got nothing.”
FWIW, my daughter refused to put a secondary major on any of her applications. She wanted to study engineering. If a school didn’t accept her for engineering, it wasn’t the right fit for her.
our student did the same for all other schools except Purdue because Purdue was 1st choice. Went with a college of science choice that was in theory an acceptable major in our student’s eyes just to be at preferred school but ultimately when Jan 15th rolled around was ready to commit to another engineering school if Purdue had said no because engineering was the goal. What’s hard to see in these early days after decision release is that it all works out in the end it just might be different than what you imagined.
I went through this same issue with Purdue 2 years back. My 1540SAT, NMSF 4.56GPA daughter was given her 2nd major. Her first major was FYE. We appealed but they did not change the decision. Lesson we learned is that with Purdue if you want FYE, do not put 2nd major as an option. Many folks who has lesser stats than her were deferred during EA but got FYE in later.
Luckily for her she got much better option than Purdue ( Uni of Southen CA, UCLA, UIUC etc). We moved on. Purdue is very rigid . They do not change decision.
seems like you haven’t moved on with that comment. No need to bad mouth the school all these people want and your child wanted to attend. c’mon.
The school didn’t change their decision because she wasn’t as qualified as the other candidates and you are upset because daddy thinks she is as good. So you come on here for no purpose but to badmouth the school. Sorry your daughter wasn’t as qualified as other kids or her app didn’t display it. The application doesn’t have two boxes. One for GPA and one for SAT. There are other things that matter and clearly she didn’t compare. Get over it.
I now know why professors complain about the current generation of students’ baby attitudes. Comes from the parents whining.
My daughter is going through something similar but she is going to pull up her bootstraps and work harder. Not complain and cry about it. Sheesh.
It’s laughable the schools even have the option to appeal.
College Confidential is not a debate society. Once you’ve made your point, please don’t continue to argue it.
4 posts deleted for ignoring my post above. Compliance should not have been interpreted as optional.