Why Getting Denied Entry To Purdue's Engineering Program Was The Best Thing That Happened To Me
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Why Getting Denied Entry To Purdue's Engineering Program Was The Best Thing That Happened To Me

Life doesn't always work out in the way you plan.

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Why Getting Denied Entry To Purdue's Engineering Program Was The Best Thing That Happened To Me
Ned Searles

Ever since I was a child I have wanted to attend Purdue University. I am a fourth generation Boilermaker on one side and third generation on the other so I have been raised to bleed black and gold and to hate IU. So when it came around to the time of college admissions, I applied to Purdue the day applications opened and anxiously waited every Friday at 5 pm to see if I had a change in my application status.

I finally received the email on October 20th from saying there was a change in my application status and I was ecstatic, I was shaking as I logged into my account because I was so excited. I clicked the results and read the most devastating words of my life which informed me I had not been admitted to the engineering school.

I instantly felt as if my dreams were crushed, but as I read on in the letter I learned that I was given the offer to be admitted into any other program at the university.

Since I had originally planned on going into industrial engineering, my parents advised me to apply into Supply Chain at Krannert since the majors were similar. So I ended up reapplying under a new major and awaited the new decision from the school.

In the two months I waited to hear back, I had a lot of figuring out to do with my life. I had been admitted to both Pennsylvania State and Texas A&M’s engineering schools, which were top schools for engineering as well.

I had to decide what offer I would take, or if it would even come. Every Friday I would log onto my computer to see if anything had changed, and finally on December 22, 2016, I got the answer I was waiting for.

I had been admitted to Krannert for Supply Chain Management.

Now I had an even tougher decision to make, go to my dream school with not my original major, or go to a different school with an engineering major.

After really looking into Krannert and the programs they offer I decided that Purdue was the fit for me. I believe that me being denied by the engineering school was the wake up call I needed to find what I was truly passionate about in life. After being on campus for two months now, I have realized that Krannert was where I needed to be from the beginning and I had made the correct call.

From all of this I have learned everything will happen for a reason. I now realize that maybe things may work out unexpectedly, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be good for you. I know for a fact I am in the right school and in the right major. People had been pushing me my entire life to be an engineer because I was good at math and science and I was a girl. I was told I would be hired instantly and that it was the perfect route for my life, but what I realized is that it wasn't MY perfect route for my life. Some people may sit there and say that I just took the offer to get me to Purdue, and that is not the case. I took the offer because I have finally found what I have been looking for. I am thankful everyday for that denial to engineering, because without that letter I would not be who I am today.

Don't let others tell you what you want in life. Only you really know that.

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