Congratulations on your admission to Purdue. Use the appropriate tab below, for information that will guide you through your steps to becoming a Boilermaker.
Next Steps: (select the session you are admitted to)
- Attend an admitted student visit program.
- Activate your online student career account!
- A great majority of your business with Purdue will be paperless – student housing application and assignment, registration for Summer Transition Advising and Registration (STAR), Boiler Gold Rush, and learning communities, course registration, fee payment, financial aid acceptance, and more.
- Your access to these services begins on your myPurdue “New Student” portal and through your @purdue.edu email address.
- You cannot access myPurdue or Purdue email until you activate your online career account.
- To activate your career account, you will need your Purdue University ID (PUID) number and your initial account setup password, both of which are provided in your admission offer letter.
- Accept your admission offer as soon as possible and no later than May 1. Step-by-step instructions.
- Apply for on-campus housing no later than the May 1 deadline. Students who apply for housing by May 1 will be assigned a random number via a lottery system for housing assignments. Housing assignments will be communicated via your @purdue.edu email address in early June.
- Students who wish to apply for need-based scholarships should complete the scholarship application by the February 1 preferred deadline. (A limited number of merit-based scholarships also are awarded through this application process.)
- File a FAFSA by March 1.
- Watch for your financial aid package to arrive in April (for those who filed a complete FAFSA by the March 1 deadline).
- Attend STAR, which is held on multiple dates in June and July. Register for a STAR date well before the start of the program. Not all colleges/schools run a STAR program on every date and spaces are limited on each date.
- Fee statements will be sent to your @purdue.edu email address and accessible through your myPurdue portal in July. No paper fee statements will be mailed!
- Apply for Learning Communities (freshmen only). Spaces are limited and placement will occur in early May. Placement announcements are made in early June.
- Attend Boiler Gold Rush the week before classes begin in August. You must register and pay for Boiler Gold Rush by July 10, 2009.
- Review Purdue's online Student Success Guide.
- You're a Boilermaker! Fall 2009 classes begin on August 24. View the academic calendar.
