Official Computer Science Statistics

I emailed an Undergrad Program Specialist at Purdue about admission statistics and this is what they sent me.

"I’m happy to provide you with some statistics on the admitted class for Computer Science, however please remember that we have no minimums or cutoffs here, and that the numbers are averages, so we take above and below that.

For Fall 2018:

Average GPA – 3.80 (unweighted)

Average ACT Comp – 33

Average SAT Math – 760

Average SAT Verbal – 700

For Fall 2018 we had over 4500 applications, and admitted just over 1300 students, so around a 28% admit rate. We are looking for an incoming class right around 400, which includes both CS and DS majors."

Just out of curiosity, I took the numbers provided by @iwantpurdue and compared them with College of Science and College of Engineering students matriculating in Fall 2018 (from the Purdue Data Digest), and also with all Purdue students matriculating in Fall 2017 (from the most recent Purdue Common Data Set). Here is what I found:

Purdue computer science students matriculating Fall 2018:

Avg. GPA – 3.80 (unweighted)
Avg. ACT (composite) – 33
Avg. SAT (math) – 760
Avg. SAT (verbal) – 700

Purdue College of Science students matriculating Fall 2018 (source: Purdue Data Digest)

Avg. GPA – 3.75 (on a 4.0 scale)
Avg. ACT (composite) – 30
Avg. SAT (math) – 704
Avg. SAT (verbal) – 660

Purdue College of Engineering students matriculating Fall 2018 (source: Purdue Data Digest)

Avg. GPA – 3.78 (on a 4.0 scale)
Avg. ACT (composite) – 31
Avg. SAT (math) – 729
Avg. SAT (verbal) – 679

All Purdue students matriculating Fall 2017 (source: Parts C9 and C12 in 2017-18 CDS)

Avg. GPA – 3.75 (on a 4.0 scale)
Middle 50% ACT (composite) – 28
Middle 50% SAT (math) – 645
Middle 50% SAT (verbal) – 620