Purdue University (2024-2025)

[vocal solar]

what about after the first two years?

[pliant garnet]

except for engineering, yes

[raw pebble]

Except for engineering

[vocal solar]

ah, gotcha

[raw pebble]

Cooked...

[pliant garnet]

afterwards, its ai based cs selectives

[vocal solar]

gotcha, so I can't take any of the higher level CS courses.

[raw pebble]

It's chill

[pliant garnet]

yeah u can

prereqs are diff for each course tho, so its rly course dependent

[vocal solar]

oh I see

hm, I'll look into it

[pliant garnet]

but since u take almsot the same courses as cs in year 1 oe 2, it shouldnt be a problem

[finite rover]

If I'm looking into doing comp bio, would you recommend fye (go into BioE later) or AI?

[vocal solar]

how selective is AI?

[pliant garnet]

bio eng

[vocal solar]

about as much as CS, or less so?

[pliant garnet]

ai will have nothing to do with bio

[pliant garnet]

no idea

the class sizes are rly small

last year, there were 25

this year there are a little over... 60?

[finite rover]

Well a lot of bioinformaticists do something CS related for undergrad and from what I saw online, it's easier to learn bio on the job than the cs needed. Since it's most ml and AI in bioinformatics anyways, that's what I was thinking

[finite rover]

60 ai majors total?

[pliant garnet]

so idk much about bio or bioE, but im sure that ai will not teach you that

[pliant garnet]

60 this year, about 80 ish total

[finite rover]

Alr

[pliant garnet]

but i dont know the exact numbers, i dont have access

[finite rover]

I think I'll look at the coursemaps asw

[vocal solar]

in my why purdue essay, is it fine to refer to programs via their acronyms, instead of the full name?

e.g DURI vs discovery undergraduate interdisciplinary research internship

[sinful viper]

i think thats fine

[raw pebble]

Low key had a lot to talk about for my stuff

[sinful viper]

but make sure you spell it correctly

[raw pebble]

Purdue has so much shit for nuclear

[sinful viper]

DUIRI not DURI

[vocal solar]

oh right, gotcha, thanks.

[pliant garnet]

:D

yeah the nuclear reactor is open for us to just visit

[finite rover]

Humble flex 💀

[sinful viper]

guys taylor swifts surprise song combo is so good

i just had to share that information

[raw pebble]

That's dope

[sinful viper]

also windsor has shrimp tomorrow

[pliant garnet]

oooooh

[raw pebble]

I was really uninterested about Purdue until I sat down to write the essays

Now I'm super uninterested about U-M while I'm trying to write their essay

Complete opposite

[pliant garnet]

yeahhh

i got rly interested in purdue while writing the essay

[raw pebble]

No right???

[pliant garnet]

and i started to despise ut austin

[raw pebble]

My MIT channelmate

WhatIsSpin

[sinful viper]

purdue on TOP

btfu

[raw pebble]

Go boiler makers

[finite rover]

What's U-M

[raw pebble]

Type shit

[pliant garnet]

💪 🚂 🔥

[raw pebble]

University of Michigan

[lethal remnant]

Ngl I'm now really interested in purdue, but the more I read online about the food I get more and more scared 💀

[finite rover]

Oh

Yeah I saw the 90k

And I was like ain't no way

[sinful viper]

youll be fine

[finite rover]

💀

[pliant garnet]

tbh the food isnt bad

[lethal remnant]

People really hate on it

[raw pebble]

Plus parking at U-M is really bad

It's 200 a month

[sinful viper]

im just obscenely picky

due to the tism

[raw pebble]

Fr

[pliant garnet]

it just gets kinda old p quick

[raw pebble]

That's just dorm food

[sinful viper]

my texture sensitivities are most severe with food

[pliant garnet]

exactly

[sinful viper]

its dorm food

some of the stuff is really good

[raw pebble]

Just eat chicken and rice

Calories

[sinful viper]

i like the chicken tacos, and grilled cheese, and i am an avid hillenbrand brunch goer

[raw pebble]

Don't need anything else

[sinful viper]

i dont like rice

and the chicken here is realllllllly finicky

the pie is also good

[pliant garnet]

yea if u jump around go to different dining halls u wont get that bored

[sinful viper]

i like windsors shrimp

[raw pebble]

Not the best stuff to eat every day

[pliant garnet]

finicky?

[sinful viper]

i started going to earhart this year and they have potstickers almost every day

[pliant garnet]

like food poisoning, or just taste

[sinful viper]

its hit or miss

[raw pebble]

Purdue has the corec right

[pliant garnet]

ah

yeah

[raw pebble]

I wrote about that a little

[sinful viper]

like overcooked and shit

[raw pebble]

That shit is massive

Fuck man

[sinful viper]

yes

[pliant garnet]

yeppp

has its own fencing room

:D

[raw pebble]

I looked into it bruh its so big

It got mad shit

[raw pebble]

Only sport I'm gonna do is crew

Trust I'll be walk on D1

Fr

🙏

[pliant garnet]

we have a river

[sinful viper]

the corec is really nice

[pliant garnet]

where the crew team practices

[raw pebble]

Betttt

[sinful viper]

the wabash....

[pliant garnet]

yeap

[raw pebble]

Is it clean

My experience with rivers are really bad

[sinful viper]

no

[raw pebble]

We have the Hudson

[sinful viper]

its disgusting

its fucking disgusting

[raw pebble]

Which is probably the worst river in the United States

[pliant garnet]

i dont see any like trash floating around, but idk abt the water quality

[raw pebble]

So anything is better TBH

[pliant garnet]

oh...

[raw pebble]

Well who cares

[sinful viper]

what other food is good here

lets see

onebowl mac and cheese

and orange chicken

[raw pebble]

What is like the healthiest food options yall have

[sinful viper]

but dont tell anyone about onebowl its my best kept dining secret

[finite rover]

How are the vegetarian options

[pliant garnet]

hilly brunch 😋

[sinful viper]

god i love hilly brunch

[pliant garnet]

all my friends have found out about it

somehow

[sinful viper]

i mean its on the dining hall app

[sinful viper]

my vegetarian friends are doing okay

not great though

[lethal remnant]

Ah ok that's fair, I'll probably survive

[sinful viper]

i mean theres always healthy options somewhere you just gotta seek them out

[finite rover]

😦

[pliant garnet]

theres always veggie stuff, but not exceptionally good veg options

[finite rover]

Ig that's the case everywhere

[sinful viper]

the french toast sticks 😋

i went to brunch so late today bc i went to an orgo review session

it was attrocious

that is why i always go prompty at 9:45

[pliant garnet]

yea i wake up rly late on weekends

so i havent been able to go for a few weeks

😔

[sinful viper]

thats so sad

[finite rover]

Oh yeah tay you're genetics, do you know anything about this ^^

[sinful viper]

probably fye to BioE there is a lot more to bio than you think

but also all bio majors require coding classes

[finite rover]

Oh damn

Didnt know that

[sinful viper]

mhm

[raw pebble]

Yo how is the All American dining court at Purdue

And Windsor

[finite rover]

My information was based on me googling "what major bioinformatics reddit" 💀💀

[pliant garnet]

windsor is one the better side, but the lack of crowd makes up for it

[pliant garnet]

wait i havent heard of that

tay have u?

[raw pebble]

Apparently it's in the cary north basement ??

Idk I'm not at purdue LOL

[pliant garnet]

is it cary knights spot or smth?

[sinful viper]

what the fuck is the all american dining court

[sinful viper]

oh

it closed

that was the burrow

its not open anymore

[raw pebble]

Oh r u fr

[sinful viper]

but windsor dining hall is okay

[raw pebble]

https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_f2908300-aa71-5c21-9251-9744a0232205.html

[sinful viper]

yeah thats the burrow

[vocal solar]

would someone mind reading over my "why purdue" essay? It's a first draft, so I'd like to be able to get a general gist of whether it's like, terrible or not, and whether or not I should continue the same line of thought.

[sinful viper]

its closed

so sad

[raw pebble]

Rip

[pliant garnet]

wasit good?

[raw pebble]

Is windsor near hc at all

[sinful viper]

t was good

[sinful viper]

windsor is right behind the honors college

[raw pebble]

Thats so valid

🔥

[sand aurora]

Do you know why it was shut down

[sinful viper]

i think just not enough people went to eat there. it was only open for /thurs dinner and it was always empty

[sand aurora]

I see

[tulip harbor]

Where was it?

[raw pebble]

Cary north basement

[tulip harbor]

fair enough

[whole junco]

which one i send scores to

for the west lafayette

nvm it showed up properly this time

[finite rover]

Wait why are you sending?

You can self report

[whole junco]

wdym

[finite rover]

Like they don't need you to send it from college board

You can just enter your score

[whole junco]

oh really

ok

[finite rover]

Yeah

[whole junco]

omg im so stupid

[finite rover]

If a school says they accept self reported test scores, then you don't need to send

[whole junco]

i thought that meant they were score optional 😭

[finite rover]

😭

[whole junco]

alr i didnt send any tho

i had like 4 colleges i was about to send to lmao

[finite rover]

Lmaooo

Just double check cuz some don't allow self reporting

Out of my EAs, I had one that didn't and I had to send

[sinful viper]

purdue just asks for your collegeboard sent scores when you commit

[finite rover]

Just confirming, for CS, we can pick multiple tracks right?

Is there a set amount? (like GT has 2 threads that you have to pick)

[drifting pike]

I'm considering writing about the Hello World hackathon event, if anyone knows more about it just dm me!

[tacit python]

finished the essays 🙏

will apply once back from school

[whole junco]

u still at school wtf

[tacit python]

india

[whole junco]

crazy

im glad i left there early ngl

[tacit python]

im getting cooked here

[pliant garnet]

Yep

As long as ur in cs and u are able to handle the coursework, u can pick and do multiple cs tracks

[finite rover]

alr, i wrote that im gonna do ML&AI and Programming Languages

[pliant garnet]

ai hell yeah

machine intelligence track and what’s the second track again

I’m tryna memorize the tracks lol

[finite rover]

wdym

like what programming languages is?

these are all of em

[pliant garnet]

Oh yeah I forgot there’s a track for programming languages

[finite rover]

yeah i've been designing my own programming language for a while and i really like computing theory so i picked it

[drifting pike]

AI as its own major is screwing with me cuz im doing CS too but like

[finite rover]

lmao

[pliant garnet]

apply to ai 🙏

But in all srsness, u can apply ai as second choice and u can get it if u don’t make cs

[drifting pike]

(does second choice need another essay)

also i still have to write honors college AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[finite rover]

Yes +250

[drifting pike]

[finite rover]

The honors ones look easy lowk tho

For one of them you literally get a structure provided by them

For the second one just yap

[drifting pike]

D1 yapping time

wait wait wait @pliant garnet can i still talk about ai stuff if i apply as cs major and not ai major

[pliant garnet]

yeah

cs has a machine intelligence concentration

[bright slate]

so on my purdue app i put that im gonna take the ap exam for french but it doesn't show on the portal

should i email them?

[pliant garnet]

holy shit thats a lotta APs

[bright slate]

it's only 12

[pliant garnet]

but yeah u could email them

admissions is nice

[bright slate]

ok thanks

[pliant garnet]

only

[bright slate]

i go to a sweaty high school

😓

[drifting pike]

bro i think i have 14

[bright slate]

it's over

[finite rover]

I have 16

[drifting pike]

[pliant garnet]

bruh

i had 8

smh

[karmic parcel]

that is beyond normal for most people

dont undersell the achievemnts

but then agian, these alot of folks here who did it all

and more

[lethal remnant]

16 is where it's at

But no it's actually crazy how many people on this server take so many APs

Like it makes sense given what the server is focused around but still

[finite rover]

APs are free for me and it's literally free credits so why not 🤷‍♂️

[lethal remnant]

Rip

I'll be paying $1600+ by the time I get out of high school

Still way cheaper than even a college semester, but I've definitely felt it in my bank account lol

[karmic parcel]

when it comes to most students, its nowhere near 16

[bright slate]

ok but most students are not getting into purdue cs bro 😭🙏

[whole junco]

i doubt ap class number helps you get in

[karmic parcel]

it aint about the ap classes

its about othre stuff that cant be acutally put down

"hollistic"

it wont be your academics only

this aint a numbers game

[lethal remnant]

Yeah no I agree hah

I was being sarcastic, no one should be expected to take that many

[keen nacelle]

for the 'why major' essay do we have also mention specific classes purdue offers in that major ? I thought there is a another full essay just for why purdue. THEN WHY THE FUCK IS MY COUNSELLOR ASKING ME TO THIS??

[tacit python]

for the why purdue essay i mentioned the opportunities purdue has for my major, for the why major, i just mentioned what the major means to me, for alt major, i mentioned what that means to me and oportunities at purdue for it since it wasn't mentioned in why purdue essay

[keen nacelle]

yeah thats what i exactly did

[sand aurora]

I mentioned classes, research opportunities, leaning communities, stuff like that

[sinful viper]

i did jusr why i wanted to study genetics.

why purdue i mentioned classes

[bright slate]

ok but good academics get your foot in the door

[finite rover]

The college can then close the door and crush your foot

[karmic parcel]

i mentioned projects i did and classes and clubs that interested me

[raw pebble]

Same my thinking was that the why major essay was about us and then the why Purdue essay connecting us to them

[finite rover]

guys im applying fye alternate major

and for the why alternate major

im talking about the major i want to do after fye

is that a mistake or am i good?

[pliant garnet]

yeah

talk abt the engineering u wanna do

[finite rover]

alr thanks

it would be hard to talk about engineering in general ngl

[nimble kraken]

I want to write my niche in my why major essay, but I also want to write my niche in the why us essay

I feel like why us has a lot of why major in it, but if purdue has them both as separate essays, I'm kinda confused

[pliant garnet]

one is how and why u find ur major interested, and one is how purdue is good for u and ur major

at least thats how i approached it

[tulip harbor]

same

[vocal solar]

college panic is back in full force

I don't feel like I did enough in high school now that I'm applying 😭

[tulip harbor]

everything i did in hs i did after junior year

youll be fine

[vocal solar]

🥺

[whole junco]

same bro

post junior year remorse

[vocal solar]

well, whatever happens happens, I suppose

it's not like I didn't work hard, I deserve something that's not community college 🥺

[sly ginkgo]

purdue is 🔛🔝

[pliant garnet]

hell yeah

[raw pebble]

Yo can we lock out senior yr and chill

Like I get some Bs 2nd sem am I chilling

[pliant garnet]

I emailed admissions about this, and as long as you graduate, you can come

You can even get a D and ur fine

Just don’t be held back, and don’t do smth legally questionable (ahem co28 snapchat)

[dusk nymph]

(the tierlist?)

[pliant garnet]

Tier list??

[dusk nymph]

nvm remembered that they were middle schoolers

[pliant garnet]

Nah some co28 purdue commits got rescinded because some stuff went down in a commits snapchat gc

Buuuuut if ur not stupid u won’t get rescinded for smth like that

[dusk nymph]

💀

what happened

[pliant garnet]

Ppl got rescinded for saying rly rly rly stupid stuff there

Like it was bad

[raw pebble]

Why the commit chat 😭

[finite rover]

Why is that allowed 😭

Like you can just give up after decisions??

[pliant garnet]

I guess lmao

[finite rover]

I gotta finish my HS career in glory 🙏

[raw pebble]

I just need to lock in for APs

After May though . . .

[raw pebble]

Do they care about absences

[pliant garnet]

I would suppose not

Unless u get like suspended or expelled or held back

[raw pebble]

Fr

So real of them

[pliant garnet]

Yet another purdue W

[eager kelp]

Wait do they check your mid year grades or nah

[finite rover]

How did you guys approach the first honors essay?

As 4 different experiences about each pillar or 1 experience and then relating it to the 4 pillars?

I have an idea but is anyone @ purdue rn open to me dming them about it (just about the idea not an actual essay)

[sinful viper]

feel free!

i personally did 4 different things, one for each pillar. but you could def do one experience and relate it to all 4

[whole junco]

do we have to give purdue a transcript for applications

[drifting pike]

my counselor sends them idk

[lethal remnant]

You're typing up the transcript yourself as well

In the "courses and grades" section

[drifting pike]

really? i have to do that myself too?

[whole junco]

ok cool cuz thats what happened for another one of my schools

[drifting pike]

from all the colleges on my list purdue is the only one

that requires "Courses & Grades"

[lethal remnant]

Yep

It's required haha

[finite rover]

nah im 120 words over the word limit 😭

[vocal solar]

if I apply early, does purdue ask for a mid year report?

and is that considered as part of my application at all?

[pliant garnet]

no

idts

[vocal solar]

oh I see

thankss

[karmic parcel]

dont worry, itis normal, gets worse when you get to college

[lethal remnant]

I literally feel this so hard

[karmic parcel]

specially when it comes to taking bad or frustrating classes

shits not sweet

but dont worry about that rn

worry about whats affecting you rn

[lethal remnant]

Like even knowing I can't do anything to change what I've done, and knowing that I'm proud of what I've done in hs, it's still hard not to compare myself to people winning IMO or smth

[karmic parcel]

hindsight is 2020

i felt that i didnt need ap chem

but i did need it

but i couldnt have known then

so its just one of those things

worrying chnges nothing

[karmic parcel]

might look like they winning rn, but they might be losing

[lethal remnant]

Yeah

Doing my best to focus on myself and stay true to me

[whole junco]

same

but we move on

[tacit python]

Just submitted mine 🙏

[sinful viper]

good luck everyone!

[lethal remnant]

Thank you 🙏

[pliant garnet]

glgl!

[dusk nymph]

mwah

[tacit python]

😎

[vocal solar]

when I apply through the commonapp, do I see my decision/application status through the purdue application portal?

[eager kelp]

yes

they'll send you a portal

[vocal solar]

I see

thanks

[pliant garnet]

Hell yeah

[wise aurora]

is purdue honors worth it for FYE

[pliant garnet]

yes

purdue honors is worth it imo

[finite rover]

oh yeah can you do both data mine and honors?

[pliant garnet]

not entirely sure

u can ask tay

[finite rover]

@sinful viper

[sinful viper]

from my knowledge yes!

[drifting lintel]

LESS THAN A WEEK GUYS LOCK IN

[karmic parcel]

purdue honors is worth it

vip is iffy sometimes, epics for sure

[west pollen]

my sat score is really bad for purdue but i feel like my gpa and ecs can make up for it

im kinda still determining whether i should submit my score or not lmaoo

[whole junco]

whats a good score for purdue

oh ok

[pliant garnet]

DO submit ur score

i cant recommend this enough

for purdue specifically, do NOT go test optional

for other colleges, not so sure, but purdue rly cares about ur test and ur held to much stricter standards if ur TO

[west pollen]

TO?

[pliant garnet]

test optional

[west pollen]

bro but my score is actually really really bad

[pliant garnet]

whats ur score and what r u applying

[west pollen]

can we talk in dms of you are fine

if*

[pliant garnet]

srue

sure

[nimble kraken]

In my why major essay for Purdue, should I add a why us aspect in there too? There's already a why us essay following it, so I feel that this is an outlier

[whole junco]

you self report it right

you dont have to send through CB

[pliant garnet]

I don’t remember 😔

Sry :(

[lethal remnant]

You do self report yeah

[whole junco]

Bet

[drifting pike]

how fast yall think i can cook up the 2 honors college essays

[whole junco]

i just did in like 15 min

[drifting pike]

i probably can do that but id spend 4 hrs checking

[whole junco]

tbh its cuz ive done the second essay alr for another school

the first one i took most of the time on to do research

[drifting pike]

what other school has interdisciplinary 😭

also wth is a "honors experience"

for the 2nd purdue essay i dont need to talk about the uni itself right

cuz the 1st one is already why school

@pliant garnet (sry ping)

[pliant garnet]

i would suppose so lol

[drifting pike]

thank goodness

[wise aurora]

thats what im doin

[drifting pike]

i think i cooked up something

i might not have time for honors though 😭

[wise aurora]

me neither bro

still doing msin essays

[onyx sequoia]

For my why Purdue essay, I talk a lot about engineering (my first choice) because it asks about academic interests. But if I don't get accepted to FYE and am considered for my second choice, will all the engineering stuff hurt me? I have nothing about my second choice in that essay.

[sand aurora]

If you look it up, there is a purdue page that shows the middle 50% of sat scores for each school

[sand aurora]

Isn't it mandatory this year?

Also, almost everyone who gets into purdue submits test scores

[eager kelp]

yeah it is mandatory this year

[sand aurora]

When it wasn't, 96% of admitted people submitted scores

[eager kelp]

damm wtf

[carmine jewel]

is a 1490 good for purdue

[bitter dawn]

am i supposed to send ap scores or no? or if im admitted i'd have to send them?

[sinful viper]

perfectly sufficient !

[sinful viper]

self report then official send after commitment

[bitter dawn]

ok cool thx

[drifting pike]

basic purdue essays are done!

[carmine jewel]

whats something people always mention in supps for purdue

[sinful viper]

clubs, learning communities, etc

[karmic parcel]

won the lottery

[sinful viper]

sameee

[lethal remnant]

💀

[karmic parcel]

now i can focus on my midterms

without having to deal with housing

[sinful viper]

my midterms last week suffered

[karmic parcel]

ive been doing pretty bad in midterms

gotta actually do better

[sinful viper]

my first round was good

my second wasn’t even bad but

i got an 80, and an 87

[finite rover]

Wait where do you live before you get housing

[sinful viper]

the 80 was actually embarrassing because it was open note but i think that was the average

[finite rover]

Do you just float around

[sinful viper]

wdym

[finite rover]

Like there's a housing lottery

[sinful viper]

yes

[finite rover]

But school already started

[sinful viper]

to get housing for the next year

[finite rover]

OH

[karmic parcel]

i went 1:4 with midterms

[finite rover]

So for 2025–2026

[sinful viper]

and this is the first year they’ve done the lottery who knows if it’ll happen again

[karmic parcel]

i gotta do good so i can feel relived before my birthday

all the midterms in one week

[sinful viper]

my worst in round 1 was an 88

[karmic parcel]

my worst was a 52

[sinful viper]

and then 95, 100, 100

[karmic parcel]

cant do it again

[sinful viper]

curve?

[karmic parcel]

nope

[sinful viper]

yikes

[karmic parcel]

just what i got

[sinful viper]

what class?

[karmic parcel]

calc 3

avg was a 77

[sinful viper]

oh yeah…

i’ve heard interesting things about that class

[finite rover]

If I go to Purdue, are they gonna make me redo calc 3 :/

[karmic parcel]

too many folks saying its easy

[karmic parcel]

depeonds on your credits

coming in

some folks choose to start at calc 1

[finite rover]

It's a UF class

[karmic parcel]

check transfer credits

[finite rover]

Wait I lost the link

[karmic parcel]

not all college classes transfer

[sinful viper]

just google it

i have a hard time thinking they wouldn’t take a UF class but just google and double check

i was shocked they took my ohio cc english classes

[finite rover]

Bruh they don't even have calc 3 listed in the drop down

But they accept calc 1 and 2 so they should accept calc 3?

[sinful viper]

what’s the class you took?

[finite rover]

https://dualenrollment.dce.ufl.edu/course/mac-2313-analytic-geometry-and-calculus-3/

They have MAC2311 and 2312 listed but no 2313

[sinful viper]

oh hmm

id email admissions then

or you might be able to test out at minimum

[finite rover]

Yeah, I'll prob contact after decisions

[raw pebble]

Purduviansssssd

Boiler makersssss

[wise aurora]

is a dual major CS + EE at Purdue possible?

or would it be painfuk

[pliant garnet]

hell yeah :D

[pliant garnet]

more than painful

[wise aurora]

would it be hell

wait do yk if the 4+1 at purdue is a bachelors and masters in electrical & computer engineering

thats prob better for me

[pliant garnet]

yes

ppl i know who have coasted through high school are suffering through just engineering

[wise aurora]

oh shi

ok nah then

[pliant garnet]

you would have to go over the credit cap and overload every single semester to even have a shot

[pliant garnet]

uhh

not entirely sure

[raw pebble]

I would low k be excited to come here

[wise aurora]

"Our 4+1 BS/MS is an exclusive program for current Purdue ECE undergraduates that allows students to earn both a BS and MSECE in as few as five years. This program leverages the outstanding characteristics of the Purdue ECE undergraduate experience to accelerate completion of a Master's degree."

Does that mean in ECE or EE or CompE

[finite rover]

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Academics/Undergraduates

Looks like ECE has the EE and CompE majors

There's no ECE major, it's a department

[wise aurora]

yeah i understood that, but it sppears that the 4+1 grants a masters in ECE?

so im confused

look at this: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Academics/Graduates/bs-ms-5year

[finite rover]

Yeah looks like it

[wise aurora]

so an ECE major is possible, but only if u do the 4+1

weird

[pliant garnet]

bs in ece exists??

damn

[finite rover]

Yeah it's only a Masters

[finite rover]

No, only MS

[pliant garnet]

oh

yea masters degres are very diff from ugrad

[finite rover]

Well you'd get a Bachelors in either EE or CpE and then a Masters in ECE

[wise aurora]

ohh yeah i seems like a BS in EE

yeah

or compe

thanks tho @finite rover appreciate it bro

[finite rover]

np

[eager kelp]

Wait does cyber security have a 4+1 degree?

[pliant garnet]

cs does

i would assume not for the cybersecurity major tho

[wise aurora]

if im interested in software, but also physical systems a little too, would CS or CompE be betterfor me

[digital aspen]

CompE because it mixes both

and its less competitive

for cs you don't get much hardware

[nimble kraken]

For Purdue essays, did you guys connect the why major and why us together

[whole junco]

no

i had alr written a why major before

so for the why us, i talked about a program i liked about my major and then a program thats outside of classwork

[eager kelp]

shit

[karmic parcel]

shit, folks who didnt coast still suffering

first year engineering is absurd

[finite rover]

can someone give me their blessings

i'm submitting today

[hardy onyx]

good luck

ur gonna do great

and don't stress abt it too much

[finite rover]

I submitted 🙏

[oak wharf]

good luck!

[pliant garnet]

glgl!!

[wise aurora]

@finite rover did u apply honors

[finite rover]

you too!

[finite rover]

thank you!

[finite rover]

yes

[nimble kraken]

For the why us, how many things did u guys list? (classes, programs, professors, etc.). I'm having trouble fitting everything in while explaining it in the little space that I have

[lethal remnant]

I talked about research, a specific program, and a club in my why us

[oak wharf]

Thx

[whole junco]

@nimble kraken

[nimble kraken]

oh i didnt see that part sorry

i talked about a program (AiM), the faculty advisor, and 2 classes

[misty jacinth]

^basically my format as well

[onyx sequoia]

mines similar

[drifting pike]

i did research a club/event thing and like another program

different order same shi xd

[onyx sequoia]

If I'm not accepted to engineering and I'm considered for a second choice (not engineering), will mentioning engineering specific programs in "why purdue" hurt me at all

[eager kelp]

Don't you have to write a second essay for your second choice major?

[onyx sequoia]

yeah but they still read the why purdue

[eager kelp]

oh true true

i mean i highly doubti t

[bright slate]

is a 1480 (750M, 730RW) good enough for purdue cs

[drifting pike]

probably

u dont have to overthink it

[whole junco]

yo i got the same but switch the reading and math scores

[bright slate]

fire

[pliant garnet]

WHATS AIM

sry

whats aim

[steel vigil]

do not come here 😂 they decided to fuck me and not give me housing next yr

[pliant garnet]

🫂

im so sry :(

[steel vigil]

homeless ‘28

[lethal remnant]

Wait ok so what do you actually do if you don't get housing

[pliant garnet]

Curl up into a ball and cry

Look for apartments or smth
But by now they’ll be rly expensive and crappy

[lethal remnant]

Wth

Sounds like I'm not coming if I don't get honors college lmao

[pliant garnet]

Lmao

Wait I’m not sure if honors guarantees u soph housing

We’ll have to ask tay

[lethal remnant]

I thought there was separate honors housing though

[pliant garnet]

Yes

There are

But it may be filled

[lethal remnant]

💀

Purdue on its way to the bottom of my list because it can't figure out housing fr

[misty jacinth]

Bro I wrote 1500 words for these mfs

If they don’t give me housing fuck them

[steel vigil]

transfer out

they made the lottery so late every affordable option has been taken already

do not come here

coming here is the biggest mistake ive ever made

‼️ IM SAVING YOU ALL FROM THE HARDSHIP

[sinful viper]

yes but it’s only enough for freshman. there are some honors communities elsewhere for upperclassmen but its not large enough for all honors students that wish to remain in campus

theyre building more housing and promising to reduce admissions. the housing situation is unfortunate but this is a very real problem at the majority of universities out there.

most unis atp only promise housing for freshman. purdue doesn’t promise but 85% of people that wanted to stay will, and i expect there will be some waitlist movement

[finite rover]

I heard uiuc also had this issue

[sinful viper]

the lottery system was also better than the previous system since you learned earlier than you did last year that you would not be getting UR housing. imagine learning right before thanksgiving that you wouldn’t get housing, that was last years reality. it sucks but learning in late oct is way better than late nov

[sinful viper]

i haven’t heard of a single public that doesn’t

and places where it’s not an issue, their room and board is obscenely expensive

[finite rover]

Accept less people 😡 (but let me in)

[sinful viper]

think 16k instead of 5k

[steel vigil]

lottery is a bad system

they said they spoke with students to create this system

but its very obvious they didnt

the chances of me getting back into UR dorms are very narrow after ive been forced off campus

if they had kept last years system, i probably wouldnt have been fucked

cuz why am i being forced off campus when im only a freshman this wasnt the plan at all

[sinful viper]

it would’ve been worse for you last year i can guarantee that. i’m sorry you’re being forced off campus before youre ready, it isn’t fair to you

[nimble kraken]

artificial intelligence in music

they use machine learning to give feedback to performers in practice sessions, generate live accompaniment, and even made a robotic arm that can play the cello

[pliant garnet]

eyyyy im in AIM rn :D

im a project co-lead for one of the projects

[nimble kraken]

yoooo

hope I can see u there lol

which project are u co-leading

[pliant garnet]

i can dm

[nimble kraken]

Sure

[carmine jewel]

what aspects did you guys talk about in your purdue supp

[drifting pike]

i might not do honors its looking pretty cooked

[hardy onyx]

real i procrastinated the honors essays wayy too much so i just did the regular supps and called it a day

[drifting pike]

my school stuff is pretty cooked too my time is running short

[wise aurora]

ive put too much time into it

needa finish atp

[sinful viper]

honors on top

[drifting pike]

how does the course reporting work do i just have to retype everything i did in the common app

im so confused

[pliant garnet]

do honors if u can 🙏

my genuine recommendation

[jade tree]

hey so

does purdue only require your official transcript if u choose to enroll?

[pliant garnet]

yeah

[jade tree]

okay THANKs

[pliant garnet]

couldve gotten rescinded cuz my district messed that up lol

[jade tree]

wait really omg

[pliant garnet]

theyre sticklers about it

[jade tree]

did they not send ur official transcript or smthn

[pliant garnet]

they didnt seal it or smth like that

[drifting pike]

done!

[pliant garnet]

so it looked like a counterfeit

lmao

[jade tree]

bro 😭

that sucks but glad it got sorted out

i swear thatd age me like 5 years

[pliant garnet]

yeahh!

[pliant garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/hai-gif-10567033442484308038

[drifting pike]

https://tenor.com/view/xluna-high-five-gif-25422702

[pliant garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/moth-dab-me-up-my-man-dab-me-five-gif-14292088878183815053

[jade tree]

@pliant garnet can i dm u a few questions about purdue things 😛

[vocal solar]

so quick question

if I wanted to join a research group (specifically under the CS department, but I'm not too sure how much that matters), how does that work as an undergrad?

do I need to join it through some sort of program? Or can I just reach out and ask

[drifting pike]

the website for the program should say

[vocal solar]

it doesn't, unfortunately 😔

https://purduepl.github.io/

[drifting pike]

damn PurPL

[jade tree]

u could ask an admissions officer to show demonstrated interest ☺️☺️

[vocal solar]

lol, can I just email them?

[pliant garnet]

yea fs

[vocal solar]

does purdue even track demonstrated interest?

[pliant garnet]

there are a ton of ways

[vocal solar]

I see

[pliant garnet]

getting involved in ugrad research is suprisingly easy

[pliant garnet]

yep

[vocal solar]

oh based

[drifting pike]

purdude the goat

[whole junco]

what do yall think of sticky off chromakopia

i feel like ppl dont like it just bc sexy red is on it

[pliant garnet]

i think the lyrics should MENTION PURDUE MORE 🔥 💪 🚂

[eager kelp]

Is purdue in the song??

[pliant garnet]

Haven’t listened to it lol

[karmic parcel]

damn that sucks

[karmic parcel]

theres affordable options, theyre just in commuting distance

[carmine jewel]

is it possible to be part of the honors college another way if you were to get into purdue

[steel vigil]

dont have a car gonna have to hope its walking distance or near a bus route

[vocal solar]

is the SRAR just the "courses & grades" section of the commonapp?

[zinc nimbus]

purdue honors college won't affect regular admission at all right... i kinda dont think i have time to submit honors college essays so if i do it'll be like a 5 min rant (cause i havent started a single essay)

[eager kelp]

why?????

[nimble kraken]

Has anyone applied using common App and Scoir

[eager kelp]

I've used common app not scoir

[sinful viper]

nope, theyre looked at seperately

but if you dont have time to submit honors college essays i would not even bother applying for the honors college. just submit your regular app

[nimble kraken]

I'm at the recommenders and FERPA section, but my rec letters were sent via SCOIR

[zinc nimbus]

yh same for my school... on common app i cant rly tell if its submitted or not but at least on scoir i think it should say "created" or smth once they finish (i honestly dont rly know tho my other recommender has yet to submit theirs)

[dense roost]

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@everyone

[onyx sequoia]

Just submitted!

[whole junco]

nice bro

[nimble kraken]

I forgot to use cb to send test scores
they'll send in 10-12 business days, but will that be too late
I already self reported my scores

[eager kelp]

You only need to self report, right? @pliant garnet

[pliant garnet]

uhhh

i dont rly remember 😔

i had mine autosent to purdue

[whole junco]

yes

[eager kelp]

yeah i thought so

[vocal solar]

the activities section will be the end of me 😔

[carmine jewel]

can you still be a part of the honors college after you get acceptance to purdue

[drifting pike]

U have to apply separately I think

[sinful viper]

honors college applications are due during EA but you can apply later as a current student

[misty jacinth]

Submitted we up

[dull oriole]

how should I refer to the honors college in the essays

purdue's honors college is kind of a mouthful

[drifting pike]

say it once at the beginning with an acronym and use the acronym later ig

[dull oriole]

JMHC?

[drifting pike]

like John Martinson Honors College (JMHC)

then just say jmhc whenever u use the name alter

[dull oriole]

kk

[sinful viper]

you can say JMHC

[fluid sequoia]

h'

[pliant garnet]

h'

[fluid sequoia]

hi

[pliant garnet]

hallo

[fluid sequoia]

please take me purdue

i submitted on a auspicous day too 🙏🏿

😭 😭 😭

just let me in

[vocal solar]

for those in the honors college, do yall remember what you wrote your second essay about? the interdisciplinary one?

[sinful viper]

i wrote mine about the intersection between biology and psychology :)

[vocal solar]

I'm going in for CS, and I wrote how programming is inherently tied to writing, and how more programmers ought to take writing related instruction.

is that...answering the prompt well enough?

[vocal solar]

ooh i see

[sinful viper]

i mean personally i wrote about how I wanted to take a bunch of psychology classes because to me it is inherently connected to biology and taking both will help you fully understand everything better.

[raw pebble]

I wrote like a shit ton about how nukes mix all sorta specialties to make cool stuff

[vocal solar]

I was wondering if saying something absolute like "all programmers should develop writing skills" would be a bad idea, I can be less absolute if needed.

[sinful viper]

id make it a little less absolute, generally speaking you want to avoid everyone should.. all should... this is 100% the case...

[raw pebble]

Oh man good luck

[sinful viper]

but tbh.. everyone should develop writing skills

[vocal solar]

gotcha, thanks

[raw pebble]

CS is cooked nowadays

[vocal solar]

writing is pretty great. I think it fits well into how I'm displaying myself to admissions too

[finite rover]

I alr submitted but I wrote about how CS ties into biology and education

[vocal solar]

I've got a handful of writing based ECs alongside my predominantly CS ones

what I was sort of going for is that programmers tend to undervalue writing, and how too much software has terrible documentation. I used donald knuth's idea of "literate programming" as a sort of example of an ideal cross section between the two.

[vocal solar]

😔

[autumn crystal]

help the only choices for activities are music and rotc

do i just not put anything for that

[raw pebble]

Go ROTC!!!!

[fluid sequoia]

i didnt

[sinful viper]

yep, its just because those activities have summer stuff involved so they want to be able to track interest for those

[lyric lynx]

Mine was so bad I wrote the entire purdue app in one day and then submitted yesterday because I decided I did not want to write anymore x_x

[lyric lynx]

I wrote something like that for my major too

[raw pebble]

I think I've said this like 30 million times but when I sat down to write for Purdue it just made me want to apply

[lyric lynx]

wdym, like you liked the questions?

[raw pebble]

Like when I went to answer them I just found out so much about purdue

that I liked

[lyric lynx]

Ah that makes sense

That's good though

I like Purdue too but it was a last minute decision to apply

It's not one of my top choices but I would go

[pliant garnet]

:D

[jade tree]

hi so if one of my lors doesnt get submitted by today do i get moved to reg decision? or since its not required do i still get reviewed early without the letter

[vocal solar]

submitted purdue!

wish me luck 🥺

once I do the commonapp, do I need to create a portal on the purdue website?

[pliant garnet]

glgl!

[pliant garnet]

theyll send u an email with ur portal

[vocal solar]

gotcha, thanks

how long after?

[pliant garnet]

uhhhhh

lemme check one sec

[vocal solar]

thanks!

[pliant garnet]

one day

[vocal solar]

lol, fair enough

i can wait

[fluid sequoia]

rly

they didnt even download my application yet from ydy

[drifting lintel]

Just submitted!

[fluid sequoia]

good luck!

hope we both get get in frl

[drifting lintel]

Frfr

Hoping that in state boost clutches

[fluid sequoia]

ooh

u have good chances

im oos

💀 💀

[drifting lintel]

Rip

Are u applying to the competitive majors?

Like engineering or cs

[fluid sequoia]

enginering

but aerospace eng

so less competitive compared to popular ones like electrical/ computer

software

etc

[drifting lintel]

Still pretty tough tho

Good luck

[autumn crystal]

purdue might have the easiest supps ever 😭

[misty jacinth]

Purdue honors supps were genuinely awful

[autumn crystal]

o i didnt do that

[sinful viper]

aerospace is quite popular/competitive here

[pliant garnet]

ur admitted into college of engineering

its not like each major has diff acc rate iirc

within college of eng

[dull oriole]

this doesnt mean i accidently reported two sat reading/writing scores right

[drifting pike]

i dont see SAT math or whatever its called

[drifting lintel]

lol purdue marked ap csp as cs AB

or was that its old name

[dull oriole]

so this looks like that for everyone?

or do i need to report math score again

[drifting pike]

ya

[dull oriole]

kk

[fluid sequoia]

old name

i got scared

for a second

i was like fuck did i report ap calc ab in 2023

💀 💀 💀

[fluid sequoia]

ot shows here

oh wait this is purdue oopsies

[drifting pike]

xd

[fluid sequoia]

oh 46

i. thought ts will be like 10 percent

bruh i meet SAT range

my gpa 💀

my ecs and essays better carry my low gpa

[onyx sequoia]

I’m the same, great scores and bad GPA

[fluid sequoia]

gl gang 😭 hope we both get in

my ecs better carry

[drifting lintel]

Praying for engineering ppl gl 😭

[eager kelp]

Purdue take me home like a country road 🙏🙏

[fluid sequoia]

i agree

[karmic parcel]

no thats the most compeititve

also youre apply for the fye program

but what you apply for does have a lil edge in the guaranteed process

for fye to your major

[bleak bay]

this means SAT recent

[dull oriole]

ah thanks

[ruby cipher]

purW

[autumn crystal]

purdue's portal is so ugly bruh 💔

puke color yellow

[pliant garnet]

its gold

how else should they make it gold 😔

[lethal remnant]

Step 1, don't choose gold as your representative color

Profit

[pliant garnet]

nah

we love gold

better than uiucs stupid blue and orange

[lethal remnant]

Hmm well that's fair

Harvard crimson goes so hard though

[autumn crystal]

michigan colors are fire

[misty jacinth]

Saying that in the purdue thread is sacrilege

[vocal solar]

hi yall

quick question

i might just be being paranoid, but all my information has been sent already, I just need to wait for purdue to process it, right?

I'm still being considered under EA?

[drifting pike]

mine is same u shud be fine

[misty jacinth]

Yeah mine is the same too

[lethal remnant]

Yep

[ruby cipher]

no bro

purdue portal is sexy

my fav portals are purdue and georgia tech

least fav are RHIT and WPI

[autumn crystal]

purdue got dookie color gtech got booger color

[ruby cipher]

☹️

[fluid sequoia]

i lowk like purdue materials

i mean portal

[vocal solar]

I see, thanks

[fiery goblet]

any AI majors from purdue?

[oak wharf]

@pliant garnet

[pliant garnet]

hallo :D

[pliant garnet]

tyty!

[fiery goblet]

omz

what do u think ab the AI program

[pliant garnet]

Personally I like it quite a bit

They could have differentiated it from cs a bit more

[fiery goblet]

are there many other people in ur lectures and stuff

[pliant garnet]

But there are so few ai programs anywhere, so I’ll take it

[fiery goblet]

is it completely empty or smth

[pliant garnet]

There are only like 80 ai majors, but for now since the classes for ai are a lot of gen eds and stuff, there are other majors here as well

But it’s kinda rare to meet an ai major outside of ur ai specific classes

[fiery goblet]

ah i see i see

have you made any friends from your class?

like really close friends or something

[pliant garnet]

Not rly close, but yea I do have a sort of friend group of ai majors from one of my classes

[fiery goblet]

i’m sorry if this is getting weird i’m really really hoping to make some friends after i get into uni cuz clearly i failed at doing that here 😭😭

[pliant garnet]

Yea nah it’s totally fine

My main friend group is from bgr (the orientation program) and meeting in the dorm lounge

[fiery goblet]

ooh i see i see

what do you think about purdue in general

yk like

the food

the dorms

the people

the campus

what ab the surroundings of the university like if you wanted to go out and roam around or something

cuz there was this one uni i heard of which is like in the middle of a jungle or something

[pliant garnet]

So far, I rly rly like purdue a lot
The food is better than decent, and if u consider ur in the middle of nowhere, then its insanely good lol
The dorms range from rly good to rly rly rly rly bad
The people are rly nice from what I’ve seen so far, but ymmv
The campus is so so nice. It’s large and spread out with nice brick buildings and a lot of trees etc. but if ur in certain residence halls, it is a lot of walking

[pliant garnet]

So we got the small ish surrounding town

So like a mile radius I would guess

And then there’s just Lafayette, which is residential, or there’s corn farms

[ruby cipher]

i love corn

[fiery goblet]

i love walking

idk ab most ppl but personally

it’d be cool to like

go a certain distance for a class

it’s like i get to refresh myself

and like

idk

[pliant garnet]

Yea like my classes are a solid 20 min walk away

Some ppl rly don’t like it

But I don’t rly mind

[pliant garnet]

another purdue W

just realized that purdue can give u one full suit a year for free

[fiery goblet]

WAAAT

why

[pliant garnet]

for like job interviews and stuff :D

i can send link

[steel vigil]

gotta make the most outta the tuition

one of the only good things purdue has

[sinful viper]

yep! career closet on top. i went a few weeks ago though and they had nothing in my size

had to go to JC penny :( and get smth instead

also all the womens shit that had was ugly anyways

[pliant garnet]

do they usually have a bunch of sizes

[sinful viper]

im not sure

[pliant garnet]

or theyre always out

[sinful viper]

it was the first time i tried to use it

i would imagine going closer to the beginning of the sem/before career fairs would be better since i bet the career fair people probably get a lot of the good stuff

[drifting pike]

i know absolutely nothing about fashion

[low goblet]

does this mean i only reported my reading score

or is it entire thing

[hardy onyx]

entire thing

[fiery goblet]

Yes i wanna see what id get if i joined purdue

[pliant garnet]

https://www.cco.purdue.edu/students/whatweoffer?tab=CareerCloset

[fiery goblet]

NO WAY

That’s actually so awesome 😭😭

i’m getting more and more into purdue day by day

[pliant garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/hai-gif-10567033442484308038

[fiery goblet]

does it snow in west lafayette?

or the area near purdue

[sinful viper]

yes

[round iris]

hey

are scholarships closed

[sinful viper]

you needed to apply EA to be considered for them

[raw pebble]

Like how much

Real snow or like sprinkles sometimes

[sinful viper]

real snow

its the midwest, the weather is unpredictable

[raw pebble]

Thank goodness

I really want to go to a cold state

Snow n everything

[fiery goblet]

is it like super snow awesome snow lots of snow buried in snow type snow

[dusk nymph]

i see you as purduepete tbh

[sinful viper]

it can get like that, yes

[fiery goblet]

LETS GOOOO

I LOVE PURDUE

[sinful viper]

living in hillenbrand next year 🔥

[undone inlet]

hilly is really nice

[sinful viper]

im bummed its not windsor bc i liked the all female aspect but also bathroom..

[undone inlet]

I hope you had a roommate group

cause hilly bathrooms are cleaned weekly

and sharing a bathroom with random people can be….unpleasant