Intended Major: CS
Out of State Resident
3.7 UW GPA
35 ACT
12 AP Classes
All comp sci classes taken in high school including AP and non AP
200+ volunteer hours
Good amount of EC’s including website design team for 3 years
Strong essay showing dedication and interest to Comp Sci
So, I see that your ACT score has gone up since you last posted on November 26?
Here is a link to the Purdue Data Digest, here, https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/, under the link for “Applications, Admits, and Matriculations”. It is interactive, so you can input the parameters that most apply to you (for example, you would be “Non-Resident” under the “Residency” tab). Based on your input, the Data Digest will generate information and create some graphs/charts from which you may be able to make an estimate of your chances for admission. There should be a table at the bottom which gives the admission rates (and yield) for students matriculating in the Fall semesters of the past 10 years; you will see that the acceptance rates have been broadly trending down for College of Science applicants since 2009. Also, the link to the “New First-Time Beginner Profile” should have useful statistical information as well. Further, Purdue underestimated its overall yield last year, and had about 500 more admits than it planned for; so there is some speculation that there may be fewer admits for this coming admissions cycle to compensate for that.
You can also look at Purdue’s Common Data Set, here, https://www.purdue.edu/oirae/resources.html. Part C7 tells you what admissions factors Purdue considers to be “very important,” “important,” “considered,” and “not considered”; Part C9 of the CDS gives the median 50% for both SAT and ACT scores, as well as the percentage of the entering first-year class falling within certain ranges of SAT and ACT scores. As you can see from the CDS, Purdue views standardized test scores, GPA, and high school course rigor as “very important” admissions factors, and ECs, personal qualities, LORs, and application essay(s) as “important” admissions factors.
Also, check out the information in this thread on the Purdue forum: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/purdue-university-west-lafayette/2110584-official-computer-science-statistics.html#latest
I hope you already applied EA, because that is the priority deadline for CS.