<li><p>I just got in to Purdue for ECE, and i’m still waiting for my acceptance for uni of washington. Which school would you choose if you decided to pursue for your ECE degree? I wouldn’t really mind about the location, but in terms of the ranking, purdue has a higher ECE ranking but lower national ranking than uwash.</p></li>
<li><p>Do you need to send your senior grades even if you are already accepted for Purdue? Since I change one of my course (from quantum mechanics to environmental science for second semester of senior year), do i need to inform them about it so that it wouldn’t hurt my chance.</p></li>
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<p>i goto purdue and i hate it, uwash has got to be better. btw i am IE</p>
<p>you hate the courses and the department or just the campus and small town?</p>
<p>i hate the campus, the small town, professors, the people, everything.</p>
<p>Purdue and UDub are both excellent universities, but in Engineering, from a purely academic and professional pointof view, the edge goes to Purdue. However, those two schools are very different in most ways. UDub is located near a major city, Purdue is practically rural. Seattle and UDub are liberal, Indiana, West Lafayette and Purdue tend to be conservative. Seattle and UDub are very diverse, Indiana, West Lafayette and Purdue aren pretty homogenious. In short, even if Purdue happens to be better in Engineering, the difference in academic quality is relatively small compared to the difference in campus atmosphere and lifestyle. So first establish which school is a better fit for you and use that as your primary consideration.</p>
<p>Purdue has what is known as pre-engineering..........one might not ever really get into their major. I don't know how UDub handles that. Many early courses at Purdue are large and impersonal which is another thing you may wish to look into.</p>
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<p>The same also applies to the UW. When you get accepted to the university, and if you declared any of the engineering as your major, you will be assigned a pre-engineering status. Whether or not you get accepted to the department depends on the completion of the prerequisite courses and how well you do in them. Admission to the university does not guarantee an acceptance to the department. I'm sure that's also how it works in Purdue.</p>
<p>you only need like a 2.0 for industrial engineering. </p>
<p>i believe cheme, ee, me are 2.7 or 2.8</p>
<p>Rather than a GPA cutoff the circumstance is that the department has room for so many "majors" in a competitive year the GPA could rise. It is not really about a guarantee of entry if you have X gpa but rather how many spaces the department has.</p>