Bring warm coats and shoes! The campus is quite large and the tour covers a lot of ground. Guaranteed you’ll be much colder than you think you will be. We visited March 10 of last year and we have what we thought were winter coats living in Oklahoma and we were really cold. I’d recommend eating in West LaFayette-- we found a darling small restaurant/bakery/pub and the food was delicious.
DEFINITELY tour the student recreation facility-- its very impressive. We stayed in LaFayette and the people were lovely. Leave plenty of time to park and get to orientation-- we didn’t and we were running. Its a much bigger campus than I imagined.
We were out of town until right before decisions were released and I forgot to come back and post, but for future stats/info:
DS24 accepted College of Liberal Arts - Political Science
OOS
3.93 UW/5.00 W
1320 SAT submitted
6 AP (4s and 5s, 2 in-progress), 2 DE, all other classes accelerated/honors
Lots of ECs - marching band with leadership, highest level performing band and jazz band, 4 years XC, congressional debate, theater, part-time job for 2 years
We are excited and think Purdue’s a great school but DS is a little concerned that Purdue is more of a “tech” school and not as focused on Liberal Arts majors. We are signed up to go to an admitted student day so he can get more of a feel for the program. Does anyone have any experience with the College of Liberal Arts and/or the poly sci program there?
S accepted OOS 2 weeks ago
Fye and honors
1590/ 4.3
7AP including senior year
Co-enrolled highschool and county votec school
Robotics team captain
Model airplane club president
Varsity 3 years
Turns out my S24 (accepted into FYE) didn’t apply for the honors college as it required essays that he didn’t have time for. He has been pretty independent about the whole admission process-so this was a big dropped ball. Well, they live and learn but not easy being a parent on the sidelines.
Can he ask to be considered for the Engineering specific honors program (CoEHP) now or has that ship sailed? It sounds great and would hate for him to miss out on the bonding/learning experiences with like minded peers. I see that he can apply for LLC till 4/1 and some of them sound great too.
There are plenty of like-minded peers who aren’t in honors. If the essays were a bridge too far for your student to complete with the application it wasn’t as important to them as it is to you. Typing is hard to convey tone. I don’t intend snark. I think your student made a choice and there’s nothing “less than” about the general peer group at a top engineering program. If your student is the best of the best it will quickly be evident at Purdue and your student will find elite opportunities. Having a Purdue engineering degree opens doors regardless because the rigor is recognized. It’ll all be fine.
There’s a DC program with the backing of C-Span founder/Purdue alum/communications school namesake Brian Lamb. Here’s a link to some of the DC opportunities for poliSci and communications majors:
Thank you for your insight. We are very excited about opportunities available at Purdue and after. I was disappointed that he had not been invited to honors program thinking he had applied for it but then found out that he hadn’t applied to the program. I need to remember that he has made level-headed and mature choices for himself so far and trust that it will all work out!
I appreciate all the school specific wisdom on this site. I’m wondering how hard it is to get aero after fye. If students maintain the required gpa do they get their choice or is there a specific number of spots in each area? Any aero specific info is much appreciated.
The last stats that Ive seen from the CoE were that 96.7% of students meeting the minimum GPA requirement get their first choice major.
My D graduated last spring so it’s been a while since she T2M but in her cohort she only knew one student who didn’t get their first choice (BME). She ended up doing an adjacent major and had the same career trajectory she wanted anyway.
We’ll find out in a few months as my current FYE student will be going through this. Our interpretation of this page says that there is guaranteed entry, regardless of space availability, if you hit all of the requirements listed under “Guaranteed First Choice Acceptance”
I will say that their faculty in Sociology are highly ranked and valued. I think many of the “softer” sciences are excellent there as well. It’s more attractive for social science or humanities to work in huge Research 1 “tech” schools that earn millions and millions of dollars in public/private funding, than in a less “tech” school that has more limited resources but a more liberal arts bent. All tenure track faculty in a school like Purdue have to publish regularly, apply for grants/funding and keep their research active to stay on staff.
This was us. She applied to thirteen schools and has written at least 20 plus essays on seemingly related but not reusable topics. Asking kids to write several more essays when there isn’t a financial incentive (IMO) is a bridge to far for a November 1 deadline. I’d prefer it if they could apply to Honor’s AFTER we knew they were admitted. In some universities, there’s an Honor’s scholarship (modest but it exists). Those were the ones we prioritized. With Purdue, it seemed mostly like enrichment, networking and housing. All of which are terrific but not enough to write a few more essays for her.
Hi there, I’ve been accepted to Purdue, and I’m really enthusiastic about the school. As an international student from India, I have some concerns about the weather at Purdue. I’ve always experienced temperatures between 10-40 degrees Celsius, and I’m a bit anxious about adjusting to the potentially harsh climate there. I’d appreciate your thoughts on this. Thank you!
Just booked a stay so that we can also attend those two days’ events with my son. Responded to the admitted students day and the Honors College event a few weeks ago, but just finalized travel bookings. We’ll be coming in from NY. Looked at tickets for the basketball game you mentioned, as we are flying in on the 22nd and that would be great to do, but the tickets are sold out now.
There are a lot of students from India at Purdue and they all somehow manage to adjust. Yes, it gets very cold, and you’re going to need to spend a couple hundred dollars on winter boots (or “snow sneakers” at the very least), a warm jacket (ideally one in which you could climb Everest if called upon to do so), a hat, and a few pairs of gloves/mittens. Purdue also faced the other extreme this August when they had a couple days of high heat, and students in dorms without air conditioning slept on friends’ floors and in cooled study lounges for a night or two. I realize that doesn’t “sell” Purdue, but frankly most of the country deals with crazy weather of some type at some point or another. The Florida and Gulf Coast schools have plenty of stories over the years about evacuating for hurricanes. California has fires and earthquakes. Weather is just something we deal with. It lasts a very short time, we help our friends through it as best we can, and we move on. Builds character.
Do you have any idea if students are allowed to bring air conditioners. The stand up kind that vent out the window? Thinking maybe no for the electrical reasons, but I have found them easy, effective, cheap and darn handy!
(PS: Maybe they don’t need them if it’s 2 weeks of heat -?)
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Well, Purdue is #2 in the nation for basketball! Perhaps some tickets will open up for the night of the 22nd. Looking forward to meeting lots of families at the admitted student event and Honors College briefing on Saturday morning. I’ve been told the mini Boilermaker Special, the Xtra Special, is going to make an appearance at the Honors College event.
Perhaps some tickets will open up for the night of the 22nd. Looking forward to meeting lots of families at the admitted student event and Honors College briefing on Saturday morning. I’ve been told the mini Boilermaker Special, the Xtra Special, is going to make an appearance at the Honors College event.