Has anyone received official acceptance letter from Purdue? I received an email invitation to Open House from Jennifer Ricksy (Program Coordinator) 10 hours go, but I did not even receive an informal notice from the department or something like that. I don't even know if they admit me as PhD student or MS student, not to mention that I obviously know nothing about funding. The whole application experience at Purdue CEE is a mess, the coordinator was nice over the phone but she never really explained away your confusion. Does anyone have the same situation?
:( I'm probably not gonna accept the offer, since obviously the Purdue CEE department really lacks funding (just like Gtech lol). They told me over the phone that only about 35 percent PhD student receive funding in their first year, and overall only roughly 65 percent PhD students are funded. It's so hard to believe that such a large percentage of PhD students in Purdue paid for thier whole education throughout the PhD program.