I will be entering college in fall 2016. I never thought I’d be going to school in the states and instead thought I’d be going to Canada. However, late in the game I decided I want to do engineering rather than resource conservation and decided to apply to Purdue. Submitted app Jan. 23 and SAT scores were the last document to arrive on the deadline day of Feb. 1. They claim if you get documents in by then you get equal admission consideration but I have a sneaking suspicion I was denied because they filled the program. This is because one, my document status went from complete ready for review to denied/offered wait list in one day and was never said to be under consideration, also I got a 2290 on the SAT and have a cum gpa of 4.222 as well as exceptional AP scores.
So as an alternative I am considering IUPUI engineering because their app is still open. I realize that although it gives you a Purdue degree you must put on resumes, Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Thus I wonder, how hard is it to transfer from IUPUI to Purdue, specifically for engineering. I realize you can’t predict the future but assuming I get straight A’s, is it possible, or what would I need to do it?
You need to contact Purdue directly and ask this question.
Your GPA and SAT scores are very good. Is Purdue the only place you’d want to study at in the US? There are other options - especially if you are willing to take a semester or year off and enroll in January or September 2017.
Well I live in Indiana and I cannot afford to study out of state, so essentially, yes. What other options might you recommend regardless of price. Also how would I go about enrolling in January?
thank you but that link is not to say you can never transfer to those programs it is just that the programs have already been filled for this year and if I were looking to transfer at this time I could not. Next year will be entirely different
re: Enrolling in January
Check the websites of the places on your list, and see if they do admit freshmen in January. Then make sure that you get all of your paperwork there in time to meet the cut-off date for those applications.
I’ve applied and been accepted to UBC and McGill for resources conservation and business respectively, issue is I want to do engineering. I applied to eng at U of T and am waiting to hear back, but regardless I have lived here since I was 1 and I am about as Canadian as you probably are. It just doesn’t make sense to me to go back.
Other question: if I were to attend a school such as IUPUI for one year then transfer to purdue, would I graduate with a purdue degree or what would employers see?
LOL. All the Canadian citizen parents I know fought long and hard to get their US-born kids to apply to universities in Canada because the price was so much better. Some of the kids did go there.
A lot depends on your immigration status. If you are a US citizen or legal permanent resident alien, you will be able to stay here indefinitely. If you are in another status, after you finish your university-level studies here and any visa extension for OPT, if you don’t find an employer who can get you a working visa, you will have to leave. So do take that into consideration too.
Employers who require copies of all of your college/university transcripts will know all of the different places where you have studied. Employers who require copies of the college/university where you graduate will know that you have some transfer credits, but not necessarily where those credits are from. Employers who don’t ask for that, will only know where you graduated.
I am well aware of the legal situation and do not need help there. And quite frankly if it weren’t for the fact that the dollar just tanked U of T would cost me about the same as Purdue
I would definitely contact Purdue admissions and ask about how you go about transferring from IUPUI, and what the likelihood is of gaining entry to the engineering program of your choice.
I’m really interested in your answer . . . have lots of knowledge of IUPUI (just not engineering LOL). But I also know that Purdue engineering is competitive and tough. It seems like Indiana does transfer credits a little differently than we do here in Florida.
I love IUPUI’s location. Hope that plan can work for you.
I was told that transferring from IUPUI is not actually any easier than from any school. Despite the Purdue name they say it is not actually a regional campus, they merely have an affiliation with Purdue. So, while lots of the classes might line up for credit, it is not like transferring from Purdue, Calumet
Go take look at both the Indianapolis and Purdue campuses and see for yourself. You may not want to transfer. Either way. Especially if you are in-state.
You might look into some of the [url="<a href=“http://theaitu.org%22%5DAITU%5B/url”>http://theaitu.org"]AITU[/url] schools that have rolling admissions. They are all private but often give reasonable merit aid and they are all focused on engineering.
I live twenty minutes away from IUPUI’s campus and I really like the location but it’s mostly a commuter school and I’ve heard the experience is not at all a traditional college experience. I think Purdue offers more of what I’m looking for