That is why she called them on 30th. They confirmed that was not the case. Other kid who did not get rejected also selected only summer option.
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And thatâs the problem. They may have accepted her, but they very clearly do not want your daughter enough to fix their systemâs mistake. They should have done it immediately. Like that very same day. No other option is even acceptable. The longer this drags on without you speaking to a backup (and for your D community college isnât the best backup), the less likely the backup will be available. Purdue is dragging their feet and being very unhelpful. I would be contacting her 2nd choice school where she was accepted tomorrow, and having an app set up and ready to go for a school she didnât apply to thatâs still accepting freshman.
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Yes, that is how it should be set up, if summer is an option for fall matriculants.
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Exactly! This is what I have been thinking for these days. I just couldnât understand why the payment setup is so confusing. I felt Purdue has something hidden, not wanting OP to know.
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That is a red flag. The number one thing correlated with success in engineering is facility with math. The math is very cumulative and doesnât get any easier from where sheâs at. Sheâll need 3 terms of Calc, DifEQ, linear and even higher maths like tensor calculus depending on her chosen discipline. It wonât necessarily even be called math, but classes like Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Vibrations, Continuum Mechanics, etc. are all stealth math classes. She need to spend some summer hours on Kahn until she gets it cold if she wants to thrive.
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How bad can the system be if nearly 8000 students seemed to get through just fine?
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Again, if it was so confusing, how did nearly 8000 kids get through and get enrolled. There isnât a peep about this on the Purdue thread. Thereâs more going on here than âthe system is bad.â System flaws donât impact so few people.
Hopefully itâll work out for the best.
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Probably because most students do not choose to attend college the summer they graduate from high school.
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Thanks for the wishes.
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Because 8,000 kids didnât wait until a few days before the deadline and then choose the summer option that was available on the website and pay by eCheck that didnât clear on time. The vast majority committed earlier to go in the fall and used an eCheck just fine. A very few students would be caught in this particular situation because most would do things earlier.
This is in no way a alight towards to OPs daughter as she did exactly what the website allowed and even called to check she did the right thing and was reassured she did.
So, itâs easy to see that this âglitchâ would not affect the vast majority of the 8,000 students but would certainly affect the select few, or maybe just one, that are caught in this perfect storm of a situation. Itâs Purdueâs fault in my opinion and they should be bending over backwards to make this right for this one student.
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There isnât a single piece of large software thatâs bug-free. A bug in logic could surface in a relatively rare combination of clicks and keystrokes that the software programmers failed to anticipate. Besides, only a small fraction of Purdue applicants in the world is on the CC Purdue thread. At the minimum, thereâs some element of poor desgin in the interface that made the mistake possible.
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The system doesnât have to be an utter failure to have failed this one student. Universities should care about all of their students and their actions here show they have little care for this girlâs future. Itâs either one (or few) students and they can make it right fairly easily (and painlessly for themselves) or itâs many students and their system really did have a failure. Unless the OP is seriously misleading us (I donât think so, but always possible online) then Purdue looks bad any way you slice it imo.
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Respectfully, If because of a software glitch, 1 out of 8000 thousand Covid patients dies, would you give the same reasoning?
The system is same level bad in this case, we just have a studentâs future that is being killed. The only difference I see here is that in my example above, there would be no way possible to fix the glitch, whereas in my Dâs case Purdueâs management team has the ability to fix it but they have not cared enough to do it still.
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After reading yours and other memeberâs take on this offer, i now understand better how this is not a good offer at all.
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Call the Provost this morning. Get an answer: can she enroll for summer+fall 2021, or just Fall 2021? Yes-> next steps. If not a yes, assume a no. Itâs no longer time for equivocation from Purdueâs part.
Then start calling University#2 from the list of admissions.
Iâll start looking at the NACAC list to offer suggestions wrt âuniversities similar to Purdueâ. Can you remind us of her preferred major?
Whatâs your budget?
Whatâs her GPA (will she have grades for Spring 2021 that might increase the GPA)?
BTW I hope the effects of the concussion are now firmly in the past. Iâm sorry her school didnât take that concussion into account and provide accomodations (Iâve seen it for football players or other athletes and itâs always seemed profundly unfair on the concussed student athletes to expect them to keep going âas normalâ.)
Also, itâs not due to the echeck - the norm is, if deadline falls on a weekend, next business day is the day the check should clear. Purdue is just using that as a pretext.
Theyâre probably way overenrolled for Fall (TO+covid rendered all software management systems useless) and have zero space in the dorms so they may be trying to cut their numbers in any way they can.
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Just a note on dorm space. Purdue built two new dorms last year and ended up not taking down the dorms they were supposed to replace. They planned for an increase in enrollment.
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Thank you for the suggestions.
The school did try to work with us once the therapist put her on a plan, however the timing of the concussion was real unfortunate, it happened when she was in the middle of her finals and by the time we realized the impact of the effects, she had already given her exams. It took a couple of months but she did recover completely.
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D sent a message to Vice Provost today morning. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Cognitive Science
This ISNâT a kid matter. Nor is it an email matter.
Itâs a LEGITIMATELY FURIOUS PARENT CALLING matter.
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