Sorry about my previous post. You’re a good, competitive student.
Maybe someone else can speak to how much more competitive it is for international students at Purdue versus OOS and IS?
Is that it folks? Less than 24 hours to go and no signs to tell if you got in or not.
I guess Purdue won the Portal Astrology game this time… lol; hope we all win tomorrow!
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yep, the admissions office is likely closed now, so probably no signs until tomorrow, and even then they might have patched it up enough that maybe there will be no indicators until 5pm EST tomorrow
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Purdue beat us. 
Good luck to everyone tomorrow!
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I think its important for prospective students to understand (and @momofboiler1’s links previously are very important) that there is a guaranteed path, and a competitive path. For the “Guaranteed First Choice Acceptance”, which means a student is guaranteed their first choice regardless of space available, it is based solely on EAI and GPA, along with taking the required minimum FYE courses.
However, if the student is instead in the “Competitive First Choice Acceptance” category (the criteria of which are in those same links), then it is 100% true that they will take more than just GPA into account.
My son didn’t want any risk, so focused on making sure he hit all of the criteria to be guaranteed a slot in AAE. One of the important things his advisor pointed out is that AP and Concurrent Enrollment credits don’t count toward GPA/EAI, so an advanced student has to be careful not to jump into advanced courses during FYE (those normally taken in Sophomore year or later) and run the risk of a lower grade that could affect the GPA.
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I think your assessment is right. My daughter got accepted into another school. She received general admission notification first and then a separate notification of acceptance by the Honors college. The final acceptance package that came in mail says acceptance into honor college.
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Did anyone get an email from Purdue saying decisions available tomorrow at 5pm. On a facebook parent page a lady said they got an email from Purdue with this info. We haven’t received any communication.
Nothing yet
Not yet.
No, I don’t have anything
Nothing! Good luck everyone!!! Waiting for 5 PM EST tomorrow is going to feel like forever!!!
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Those who have the thinner status bar, are you still able to update test scores?
I’m surprised it’s still not locked.
Yes, we still have the option.
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To your point of “being among your people”: the Big Ten has a lot of excellent engineering schools. The difference with Purdue as compared to the others from my visits is that the culture, the vibe, the feel of Purdue is driven by the engineers. They run the place. It’s the secret sauce. You have so many interesting people studying such a wide variety of things from so many different places at lots of large universities, but this difference makes Purdue special among massive schools.
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Managing expectations for tomorrow…
Do NOT expect merit awards. Be pleasantly surprised if it happens. Like admissions, there will be people with lower stats than you who get merit. Don’t embarrass yourself popping off on here.
You do not gain an advantage in housing by committing early. As long as you do it before the deadlines you are good. You choose the type of housing you are interested in, not the location. You are not guaranteed your preference.
For you engineers, you aren’t a mechE or a chemE or an aero student. You are a first-year-engineering admit. Yes, they asked what major you’re interested in. It matters not a whit once you’re admitted.
For those whose 15th doesn’t go as hoped, the numbers game is hard. The frozen tuition gimmick is carried on the backs of full pay international and full pay out of state students. Admissions may have wanted you but the finance folks said no. They know how much they need to bring in for tuition each year and sometimes that screws wonderful students who would be a great addition to the university. Or the whiff of “Purdue is my safety” was actually strong and they knew you weren’t that into them. Sometimes they guess wrong among the thousands of applications. Whatever the circumstance, go be great somewhere else.
Breathe everybody. It’ll be OK.
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I’m trying to catch up tonight with all the signs for admissions… my senior has the thin status complete bar and when she clicks “admitted students” in the menu bar she sees a screen that says “you’re admitted what’s next”. When she clicks on “accept your offer” it takes her to a screen with instructions on how to activate her student account.
It seems you can get into this page without even logging into the portal
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I want to make sure I get this part right; as per the CDS, the acceptance rate for IS is significantly higher than OOS, close to double; so, what do you mean by “Admissions may have wanted you, but finance said no?”
As a state school they have to tread carefully on how many non-Indiana students are there, but the number of out of state/internationals is high. Fall 2024 had in-state below 50%. That’s highly unusual for what is basically a sci/tech flagship.
At Illinois it’s 70% in state. At Ohio State, 80% are in state.
Each year when budgets are approved by the trustees they know how much of that budget needs to be tuition dollars. Purdue isn’t unique in this way. It is part of the yield management strategy schools that are not need-blind use to build a class.
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I understand that part.
My point is despite all that, they are able to admit a large chunk of in state applicants, close to 80%.
It doesn’t seem to me that they are letting go of great in-state candidates to favor OOS applicants, just because they bring more money.