Epics is one of the engineering living learning communities. Students need to apply for the program. Here’s the link to the program: EPICS
And here’s the link to the application: Learning Communities - EPICS
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OOS Daughter accepted into Krannert for Marketing with Presidential Scholarship. Son currently in 2nd year in ME at Purdue and absolutely loving it. We were originally thinking of Purdue as a backup because she applied to a lot of highly competitive business schools but the scholarship is making us definitely reconsider.
Stats: 4.0 uw/ 5.07 w GPA, 1530 SAT, lots of APs, EC is primarily ballet (performing, choreographing, summer interning with marketing and costume design) and she is a good writer.
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Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear he enjoyed Epics.
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Thank you. Do students typically get into the LLC, or is it super competitive?
Historically they were not competitive but I don’t know if that has changed any in recent years. That would be a good question to ask the university directly.
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For experienced Boilermaker families, is Indianapolis the closest airport or is there something closer? Flying in from Texas. Thanks to everyone for the heads up on the signs ups opening this morning! We are coming March 6.
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Regarding Living Communities, is this the right order of events: admitted, accept, get through regular housing application/contract, then apply to living community?
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Yes, Indy is the closet airport.
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Indy is the closest. It’s a little over an hour away. Chicago is about 2 hours and so is Fort Wayne.
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I believe you can submit the housing contract and apply to the LLC concurrently, but you need to do both.
Although Indianapolis is the closest airport, Chicago has much better air connectivity and fares (from the North-East at least).
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Yes, both Chicago and Indianapolis airports have shuttles for students to take directly from campus which are convenient.
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I don’t believe they yield protect like Michigan and some of the others. It’s just become a really competitive school and I can see their engineering department gaining in reputation especially with the government’s focus on chip development.
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Indianapolis is so much easier to navigate so if you can get a direct flight out of there it is better.
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My son did not apply to honors and is enjoying VIP. Look into the learning communities.
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New students can apply to learning communities starting on Jan 18th. The priority deadline is April 15th. There is always more interest than spots available so do not wait until later in spring. Yes they know May 1st is a decision deadline nationwide. They give preference to those able to/willing to commit earlier.
My nephew is there and my sister prefers Indy over Chicago. Smaller and very easy to navigate. They come from NC with a direct flight. They use miles for flights due to extensive business travel so not sure what the cost difference is.
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S23 got into Honors but also interested in EPICS. Any advice regarding housing or anything related to Honors vs EPICS? Which is better? He will be in FYE program.
My D is an honors engineer so I’m happy to answer whatever I can about the honors program.
The honors residence is very nice, as is the suite style Meredith Parker Hall across the street for overflow. Both are much newer than Shreve which houses EPICS.
Both programs have their own sections of first year engineering design. My D adored the three honors profs. The honors design incorporates physics mechanics into the class and is all project based. My understanding is that the EPICS design class focuses on their specific projects but is similar.
Honors engineers have their own dedicated advisors, had a great team building day during BGR, and will also take a Fall honors seminar class. They’ll have an honors mentor as part of that class. All the honors professors have their office in honors college and are very accessible.
In addition, there are honors specific study abroad opportunities, and also some early internships. Later on, there are opportunities for leadership development and interdisciplinary scholarly projects (some with funding).
FWIW, when my D was a freshman she thought that she would just do honors for the housing. As it turns out, she has taken advantage of all kinds of opportunities within honors college and will graduate with her honors diploma this Spring. It was much more extensive than she expected.
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The program looks really great, and pretty much just what my D is looking for as an engineering student and as she is wanting to find community.
Question though - it looks like a few of the perks they used to have are now gone, such as a housing guarantee and priority registration. Can you weigh in on that?
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