Purdue Class of 2016 Admission Decision Thread!!!

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<p>Seeing as how Purdue has started to release admission decisions 4 minutes ago, I feel it would be appropriate to start this thread. Basically, if you want to share your stats and decision here, you can. This is for other people who have not received their decision and want people to compare stats with.</p>

<p>I guess I'll go first...</p>

<p>Accepted for College of Engineering
Applied: Nov 02
Recieved Decision: Dec 09
GPA: 3.41 Unweighted
SAT: Didn't Take
ACT: 32
State: NJ
School Type: Private
APs: 5 on BC Calc and Bio
Hook: I don't have many hooks. Maybe the fact that my GPA is a bit lower because I am aweful at humanities...Complete Math and Science person</p>

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<p>Daughter got her admissions email and we’re all happy. Here’s her stats:</p>

<p>ACT: 30
GPA: 3.92
Field: Engineering (mechanical/aero)
Locaton: Out of state
School type: Private
APs & Honors: 10
Applied prior to 10/15/11</p>

<p>Activities: JROTC officer, JV & varsity soccer (but only two years), pep band, church leader, pilot.</p>

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<p>S Accepted Engineering
sat 1370/1600
740M/630CR
gpa 4.0W
Locaton: Out of state
School type: Private</p>

<p>Applied after 11/1</p>

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<p>Accepted First Year Engineering
Applied: Nov 07
Received Decision: Dec 09
GPA: 3.8W
SAT: 1940 (700M, 640W, 600R)
ACT: N/A
State: Massachusetts
School Type: Public
APs: 6: Calc AB, Physics C, Chemistry, Computer Science, Statistics, English Lit
Hook: Female!</p>

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<p>My daughter was just accepted!
GPA: 3.54 W
ACT: 27
State: California
School Type: Private
Lots of AP’s and community service hours</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>

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<p>Accepted for College of Engineering
Applied: October 2nd
Recieved Decision: Dec 09
GPA: 4.0 UW, 5.3 W
SAT: 2240
ACT: 36
State: IL
School Type: Public
APs: 5 on BC Calc, MacroEcon, Gov’t, and Eng Lang, 4 on US History
Hook: Not really anything, but I had very good ECs and leadership positions.</p>

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<p>Is it normal that I haven’t got a decision yet? I applied on October 13th for engineering and I’m an international student…</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted to College of Science (Actuarial Science) **</p>

<p>Stats:
•SAT: 2240 (760 M/730 R/750 W)
•SAT IIs: 770 Math 2, 770 U.S. History, 730 Physics
•GPA: 3.89 UW/4.50 W (4-3-2-1 scale)
•Rank: 6/325
•AP Classes: AP English Language (5), AP U.S. History (5), AP Calculus BC (Senior), AP Macro/Microeconomics (Senior), AP English Literature (Senior), AP Psychology (Senior), AP Chemistry (Senior)</p>

<p>Subjective:
•Essays: Theoretical conversation between two historical figures
•Hook (if any): None</p>

<p>Location/Person:
•State or Country: NJ
•School Type: Fairly Competitive; Ranked in Top 500 in US a couple of years ago (not sure now)
•Ethnicity: White
•Gender: Male</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Work Experience:
•Model UN, 10-12 (Youth Sec Officer)
•National Honor Society, 11-12
•Supermarket Cashier, 11
•Tutoring, 9-12
•St. Peter’s Afterschool Program, 11-12 (Help kids with academics/play educational games with them)
•JV Swim, 10
•MS Walk, 10
•JV Golf, 9
•Junior State of America, 9
•Counselor-in-Training, 9</p>

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<p>GPA- 3.51
Act- 24
4 years of the same sport, clubs, community service, 2 AP classes, and 1 honors class. and i work.
From Illinois.
Yay</p>

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<p>Accepted for College of Engineering
Applied: October 6th
Recieved Decision: Dec 09
GPA: 3.87 UW, 4.5 W
SAT: 2240
ACT: N/A
State: MD
School Type: Public
APs: 5 on BC Calc, APES, US Gov, Chem, 4 on World
Hook: Not really anything, but I had ok ECs and was part of scouting</p>

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<p>Are you sure? it would say in the decision column “offer admission” . It took me a while to see it.</p>

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<p>Accepted School of Management
Applied: Sept 21
Recieved Decision: Dec 09
GPA: 3.41 Unweighted, 3.63 weighted
SAT: 1190/1600
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
State: NJ
School Type: Public
APs/Honors: 12 total, Honor Roll all 4 yrs<br>
EC’s: Class President, State Debate Qualifier, Basketball, Volleyball, JSA, job
Hook: Maybe OOS Management major?</p>

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<p>Accepted into First Year Engineering for Aero/Astro</p>

<p>Applied: 11/2
Received Decision: Dec 9
GPA: 3.89 unweighted (my HS does not weigh our GPA)
Class is not ranked but definitely top 5%
SAT (superscored) : 690 (CR) 760 (M) 690 (W)
SAT II: 670 (Math 2) 750 (Physics)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
State: NY
AP: World History - 3 English Lang/Comp - 3 Physics B - 4 US history - 5
APs in progress: Microeconomics, Gov/Politics, Calc BC, English literature
EC: 2 years varsity tennis, 4 years math team - captain this year, band kid, Civil Air Patrol (tons of volunteering and leadership), co-op lab technician at Kodak
Hook: Minority, immigrant, first generation college student</p>

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<p>accepted pre-pharmacy, in-state applicant
Applied: 10/3/11
Received Decision: Dec 9
stats:
30 ACT (30 e, 34 m, 26 r, 30 science) (if Purdue superscores, than my act would be 31, because i got 28 on the reading the first time)
3.93 weighted gpa, 3.76 unweighted
Rank: top 10%
School type: Public, about 3200 students
APs: Just AP US, didn’t even take exam
EC:
French club treasurer (that’s all)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Palestinian (Arab)
Lived in West Bank, Palestine from age 8 to age 13</p>

<p>Strengths: Probably ACT. It’s not super good, but above the Purdue average. I also thought that my essay was good.
Weaknesses: almost no ECs and pretty much no APs</p>

<p>Why was I accepted?: Being an in-state applicant must of helped… a lot!</p>

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<p>where is the decision column i can’t see it. i applied nov 10 so idk, but i cant see no decision column</p>

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<p>Accepted to College of Science - Actuarial Science
Applied: Nov 06
Recieved Decision: Dec 09
GPA: 3.95 Weighted
SAT: 2070
SAT2: 800 (math2). 800 (Chinese)
ACT: N/A
School Type: Public
State: PA
APs: got five on Stat, physics C and Cal (Junior year). Taking another 4 APs this year
Hooks : none</p>

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<p>Wait…I got denied/program closed. I applied undecided engineering on October 13th, 2 days before the deadline. How can the program be closed so quickly?</p>

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<p>son got accepted tonight – public HS in IL
ACT 34 (superscore 35)
National Merit Semi-finalist
AP Scholar with Distinction (12 APs to date/in progress) - 5 Calc B/C, 5 Chem, 4 Comp Sci A, 3 US History, 3 Euro History; pending: AP Physics C, AP Econ, AP English, AP Latin
SATII Math 800, Chem 750</p>

<p>waiting to hear about Honors admission</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):1930 (CR:640 M:700 W:590)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Top 3 (out of 250)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: In India we have a fixed syllabus for everyone in a particular stream.
[</em>] Major Awards: Best Speaker in a few Competions. Nothing much though…
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Play Soccer and Cricket for my class team. Roller Skating at the state level. Debates.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Quite a bit…
[li] Essay:Wrote on why I would like to join Purdue. The few people i showed it to said it was good. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Computer Engineering
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):India
[</em>] School Type:Christian Missionary School
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian
[</em>] Gender:Male
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):A few friends are there. From what they tell me its quite a fun place. The ranking is good too…
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: School Record, Essay
[<em>] Weaknesses: ECs, SAT Score
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted: Perhaps because I am OOS so the big bucks I offer. I don’t know…my academic record was good, but my SAT and ECs were not like the those I have seen here.[/ul]</p>

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<p>**
Decision: Accepted**</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2400
[</em>] SAT II: 790 USH, 780 Bio-M, 780 Math II
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~10/339
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5^8 in Biology, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, European History, Psychology, English Language, US Government (4 of which were self-studies)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc II, Multivariable Calc (selfed AP calc over the summer), AP Chemistry, Honors Physics, AP English Lit, AP US Government, Science Research, intermediate macroeconomic theory (college 3000 level class), advanced methods in analytical chemistry (PhD level)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): [/li]Placed @ ISEF, national finalist @ JSHS as well as a few other science competitions
State finalist for debate
Mock trial, lead atty. 2nd in state sophomore year, 3rd junior year. 20th @ world championships junior year, 10th senior year. Top 10 witness in the world junior year state MVP witness in mock trial sophomore & junior year</p>

<p>+minor stuff like AP national scholar and national merit.</p>

<p>So international recognition in mock trial, national recognition in research, and state recognition in debate, I guess.</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Big one - From 8th grade through the first half of junior year, built a large online community focused around a game with ~200k members and ~1m users.
Science Research (with 0 connections and little guidance, my project was much more independent then everyone else I saw at the competitions and my teacher made note of this in her letter)
mock trial (see above)
debate (see above)
glassblowing: I make bowls, vases, paperweights and similar such things at my local museum.
swordsmithing (recently)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Helping out at family business
[li] Summer Activities: glassblowing every summer, Harvard summer school one summer (on a scholarship), working for parent’s business every summer, and chemistry lab research one summer.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Intended Major: Electrical/Computer Engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>sorry it’s longer then necessary - I copied this from another forum. Now I’m just hoping for lots of merit money, since I can’t attend otherwise.</p>