Penn State ?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone confirm does Penn State look at personal statement?

The common data set states it is not considered - but the common app says optional

[Anonymous]

College counselor here. Penn State reviews the essay (as part of a more holistic review) depending on an applicant's stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College counselor here. Penn State reviews the essay (as part of a more holistic review) depending on an applicant's stats.

Can you leverage themes for honors college application?

[Anonymous]

Someone told my DS that Penn State has almost a rolling admissions and has already sent acceptance letters. Anyone else hear that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone told my DS that Penn State has almost a rolling admissions and has already sent acceptance letters. Anyone else hear that?

Yes, our daugh (hs Class of 23). Applies in Late September and was accepted in Mid October. She her stats were above their 75th percentile). She noted that all her high stat friends got decisions in a few weeks. Those that applied at the same time as her that were closer to the median didn’t hear back until Dec/Jan or later.

[Anonymous]

Penn State is rolling admissions

https://www.psu.edu/resources/first-year-students/deadlines

After November 1, Penn State reviews applications on a rolling basis, and options will become more competitive for admission, particularly at the University Park campus. Additionally, there are some programs that have limited enrollment and specific application dates.

[Anonymous]

It’s rolling. I think all they to is plug your stats into a formula to determine outcome.

Here’s a tip to your Penn St admissions: if your kid applies to a certain school (eg business) and gets shipped to a satellite campus or a summer start, just call the admissions office and ask to move the admit a different school that has openings on main campus in the fall. It’s not hard to move between schools at
Penn St.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s rolling. I think all they to is plug your stats into a formula to determine outcome.

Here’s a tip to your Penn St admissions: if your kid applies to a certain school (eg business) and gets shipped to a satellite campus or a summer start, just call the admissions office and ask to move the admit a different school that has openings on main campus in the fall. It’s not hard to move between schools at
Penn St.


To clarify it’s easy to move between schools once you are there, even into engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s rolling. I think all they to is plug your stats into a formula to determine outcome.

Here’s a tip to your Penn St admissions: if your kid applies to a certain school (eg business) and gets shipped to a satellite campus or a summer start, just call the admissions office and ask to move the admit a different school that has openings on main campus in the fall. It’s not hard to move between schools at
Penn St.


To clarify it’s easy to move between schools once you are there, even into engineering.

I find this hard to believe as they made a big deal that the business and engineering schools were nearly impossible to transfer in to once admitted to another college. They even stopped the option to transfer from DUS to business (Stern?) this year.

[Anonymous]

The business school is moving to direct admit this admission year so you can’t use the old back door of applying undecided then transferring to the business school later. Keep that in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone told my DS that Penn State has almost a rolling admissions and has already sent acceptance letters. Anyone else hear that?

I think last year the first admissions started to come out in early November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone told my DS that Penn State has almost a rolling admissions and has already sent acceptance letters. Anyone else hear that?

Yes, our daugh (hs Class of 23). Applies in Late September and was accepted in Mid October. She her stats were above their 75th percentile). She noted that all her high stat friends got decisions in a few weeks. Those that applied at the same time as her that were closer to the median didn’t hear back until Dec/Jan or later.

has anyone from this cycle received a decision?

[Anonymous]

High stats kid applied EA last year and heard back in November. You can watch on College Confidential b/c different colleges release at different times. When you hear of early acceptances, ask the college b/c Ag Science, IST and others released before A&S. If I remember correctly, A&S released on November 15th for high stats kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s rolling. I think all they to is plug your stats into a formula to determine outcome.

Here’s a tip to your Penn St admissions: if your kid applies to a certain school (eg business) and gets shipped to a satellite campus or a summer start, just call the admissions office and ask to move the admit a different school that has openings on main campus in the fall. It’s not hard to move between schools at
Penn St.

Summer session is a great way to get started at Penn State and ease into a large school atmosphere. You can get your footing before there are 45k students in the fall. It is also a blast! I would might actually prefer it for my kid if they chose to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone told my DS that Penn State has almost a rolling admissions and has already sent acceptance letters. Anyone else hear that?

Yes, our daugh (hs Class of 23). Applies in Late September and was accepted in Mid October. She her stats were above their 75th percentile). She noted that all her high stat friends got decisions in a few weeks. Those that applied at the same time as her that were closer to the median didn’t hear back until Dec/Jan or later.

has anyone from this cycle received a decision?

DD is high stats and has not heard anything yet (NMSF, 1580, 20 AP/DE, 3.95+ unweighted, etc). Her application has been marked complete/under review for at least four week now.