I am in discussion with a lawyer who informed me that he has worked on cases with Purdue. If anyone has a reference for a lawyer that would be right for my need, please share it with me.
Thank you so much. Plan B is community college and a transfer. I have already started working on that plan.
Reach out frantically to the 7 non-Purdue offers first thing tomorrow and explain to them the situation, and see if any of them would be willing to still take her. Unless the finances were an issue at the other acceptances, then this would be a MUCH better âplan Bâ than community college.
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Just wanting to clarify: if @deesal calls her #2 (or #3 or #4âŠ) school and explains the situation and they say yes, and if OP accepts the #2 or #3 school, what happens if Purdue comes back in a few days and says theyâve got it all figured out and offers her a spot? Can OPâs daughter still enroll in Purdue the way she wants? Can she tell the #2 school âno thanksâ and enroll at Purdue? I know she will lose her deposit at #2, but is she allowed to do that?
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What would her second choice have been? It might be worth calling them to see if she can attend. Especially if making friends and immersing herself into campus life is important to her. Second @derakiii33 suggestion if sheâs adamant about starting fall â21.
CC is fine but she wonât get the opportunity to integrate into the college community the way she would as a freshman and transferring is basically reapplying all over again (unless Purdue gives her a guaranteed spot for fall â22) with the added challenge of making friends and such after everyone has a year of doing that very thing. If the school has a good sized transfer class that can help ameliorate the issue but not completely.
I know taking a gap year doesnât seem appealing but Iâd sincerely encourage your D to consider her options in lieu of taking the CC route. There are travel, volunteer, work/internships opportunities that would be significantly better than going to CC for her first year of college.
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It is my Dâs future. I feel responsible.
It is also Purdueâs reputation, I would not take steps to impact it if I have a choice as this is where she will study.
Finances were an issue for all options, including Purdue but I guess this is same for all of us. CC will not cost as much as Purdue and they will acceot her. D 's SAT score is in 99th percentile.
I appreciate your points. I will talk to D again.
I donât know. Good question though.
Thanks for the suggestion. It is helping me figure it all out.
May I ask what some of the other acceptances were? Some of them may be more willing to reconsider your financial aid situation and give you a better package. If I could get one of the stingiest private universities to budge on my familyâs FA package, then anything is possible, and it doesnât hurt to ask.
I understand that CC would be a much cheaper option than a 4-year, but you really get what you pay for. The classes, the teachers, the students are likely going to be of lower quality than a 4-year, and it sounds like your daughter is worried about the âformative monthsâ she would miss. If that is something that is really important to her, then she should be very wary of a CC.
Is there any reason why you want her to be in a rush to start and go to college. I can completely understand that finances might be a big factor, but you could craft a gap year in which she gets a job to help support the experience.
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I just wanted to chime in and say Iâve been reading this thread and Iâm pulling for your daughter and you. Purdue needs to step up and make this right and I donât blame you for taking any action necessary to make it happen. Your daughter called to clarify she had done the right thing and the Purdue representative assured her it was fine. I hope they correct this to your daughters satisfaction very soon. In the end a bit of their reputation is on the line. Might be a small bit but itâs still a bit. I canât see the harm in admitting one student that they obviously wanted and took the deposit from. Good luck.
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Thank you so much for reading the thread for days. You donât know how these messages kept me going.
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Thanks, I had not thought about the situation this way. I will think it through. I too donât want CC for her. I will talk to her again about plan C/D.
Beside what I typed up thread (feeling let down and dispirited, social difficulties linked with transferring) her 99th percentile SAT may indicate a mismatch between her skills/already completed classes and what the CC offers.
Check what courses are offered in her major and whether they transfer. Some CCs primarily cover technical certificates and remedial material, math goes to precalculus and calculus 1, etc., and if she took lots of APs the appropriate offerings may be meager.
Have her review her choice #2, choice #3 and decide where sheâd like to go if Purdue doesnât come through. Call Purdue on Monday and get ready to call #2 to see if admission+scholarship are still there. No need to explain why - NACAC rules were changed so that universities can âpoachâ students after May 1st, meaning if you hint you might still be interested some universities may offer the same scholarship as before whereas at others it got offered to someone else when you turned it down. âWeâre reconsidering our choices since you were #1 till very late in the decision process and are wondering ifâŠâ
What were choices 2 and 3?
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I will do that. Thanks for suggesting it and explaining it so well. Her #2-#8 were all in US news top 100 list. I am just not writing the exact names on a public forum. I did receive an email from one of those that they are on rolling admissions, I will call them to identify backup options.
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Assuming her acceptance can be deferred and that she keeps sufficient grades in CC. You might want to ask if theyâd be willing to do that before committing.
What they had told me was that upto eleven credits are allowed if she wants to join as a freshmen in fall 22. Any credits more than 11 will make it to a transfer student.
If she goes to CC and gets more than eleven credits then for transfer, she will have to apply and transfer only if selected.
11 credits means part time - AFAIK 12 is the minimum for being considered full time for federal financial aid eligibility and satisfactory progress.
Itâs a rather rotten offer frankly. 
Itâs 2 science classes and 1 humanities rather 4 or 5 as would be necessaryfor a normal 1st semester. It does not cover 1 semesterâs worth of credit so if she started in the Spring sheâd be behind compared to classmates and it would unbalance all her sequences if she chooses a sequential major.
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I had not understood that. Thanks for explaining it to me. She has about 6APs as well so I am assuming that the some of transfer credits will come from APs.