Penn State

[Anonymous]

-Penn State is a huge state school. Either you can deal with that population or you can’t.

-State schools up charge those who come from OOS. I am from PA and sent one of my kids to W&M. OOS tuition is currently $43,000. If you don’t want to pay, attend your own state school.

-Joe Paterno died in 2012. People went to jail as they should have. The haters are going to hate forever.

[Anonymous]

They call it happy valley for a reason, but no school is right for everyone.

[Anonymous]

PSU is quite expensive - both OOS, and relatively speaking, in state as well compared to other states.

[Anonymous]

So are Penn State and Ohio State are realtively easy admits for OOS students, who have low/avg GPA?

eg DC has 4.0 W GPA , 1450 SAT - looking at business/MIS. Avg EC,s

We are looking 2-3 safeties for a kid with this profile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your actual ?

This is not very hard.

Penn State very large state school in the middle of nowhere PA.
Major Party school
Supported profiles for years. Still thinks a football coach is more important than children.
Large classes
Large Alumni network LOL this is touted all the time yet not that useful.
Cost OOS absolutely a financial stupid idea

Most kids go to Penn State if instate of course flagship right. OOS is for for students that do not get in anywhere else in their home state.

But hey if want football, large OOS tuition payments, it's the place.

+ 1,000

The Sandusky situation alone = my student wouldn’t even apply there because I wouldn’t give them a dime.

I know someone with huge PS debt who like the PP said, only went there because they got into one other school which was in state. They wanted the out of state experience.

Yep, I feel the same. I will not let my child apply to PSU.

Totally agree - would never, ever give this institution money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legends in their own minds.

+1

Penn State is like a cult. I don’t get it.

Also, the grads I’ve worked with have been rather average and unimpressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Legends in their own minds.

+1

Penn State is like a cult. I don’t get it.

Also, the grads I’ve worked with have been rather average and unimpressive.

Hey! I went to a much more selective school and I am rather average and unimpressive.

This is one of the nastiest threads I’ve seen in this forum. It serves no purpose.

[Anonymous]

Popular back up together with UPitt if you can't get in UVA, UMD, VT, W&M.

[Anonymous]

I know Penn St has a reasonably selective (about 53%?) acceptance rate but for our public HS it has about a 75% acceptance rate (and a lot of kids apply from our HS) and so it's sort of bizarrely and unfairly viewed as a safety. Would not (and didn’t) select it over in-state options that offer similar education for lower cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So are Penn State and Ohio State are realtively easy admits for OOS students, who have low/avg GPA?

eg DC has 4.0 W GPA , 1450 SAT - looking at business/MIS. Avg EC,s

We are looking 2-3 safeties for a kid with this profile.

I’d say a target or maybe low target for your student for direct admit business, but not a true safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So are Penn State and Ohio State are realtively easy admits for OOS students, who have low/avg GPA?

eg DC has 4.0 W GPA , 1450 SAT - looking at business/MIS. Avg EC,s

We are looking 2-3 safeties for a kid with this profile.

I’d say a target or maybe low target for your student for direct admit business, but not a true safety.

Agree. Check Miami of Ohio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:-Penn State is a huge state school. Either you can deal with that population or you can’t.

-State schools up charge those who come from OOS. I am from PA and sent one of my kids to W&M. OOS tuition is currently $43,000. If you don’t want to pay, attend your own state school.

-Joe Paterno died in 2012. People went to jail as they should have. The haters are going to hate forever.

The same people that wouldn’t send their kid to Penn State because of the Sandusky scandal would be thrilled to send their kid to Michigan even though they agreed to pay $490 million to setting their sex assault scandal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:-Penn State is a huge state school. Either you can deal with that population or you can’t.

-State schools up charge those who come from OOS. I am from PA and sent one of my kids to W&M. OOS tuition is currently $43,000. If you don’t want to pay, attend your own state school.

-Joe Paterno died in 2012. People went to jail as they should have. The haters are going to hate forever.

The same people that wouldn’t send their kid to Penn State because of the Sandusky scandal would be thrilled to send their kid to Michigan even though they agreed to pay $490 million to setting their sex assault scandal.

Michigan had a monster. It didn't have an entire power structure and culture dedicated to abetting and protecting that monster. Penn State not only had such a power structure and culture, the institution is unrepentant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:-Penn State is a huge state school. Either you can deal with that population or you can’t.

-State schools up charge those who come from OOS. I am from PA and sent one of my kids to W&M. OOS tuition is currently $43,000. If you don’t want to pay, attend your own state school.

-Joe Paterno died in 2012. People went to jail as they should have. The haters are going to hate forever.

The same people that wouldn’t send their kid to Penn State because of the Sandusky scandal would be thrilled to send their kid to Michigan even though they agreed to pay $490 million to setting their sex assault scandal.

Michigan had a monster. It didn't have an entire power structure and culture dedicated to abetting and protecting that monster. Penn State not only had such a power structure and culture, the institution is unrepentant.

Can you back up this allegation?

[Anonymous]

I’ll be a Penn State booster. My DS wanted to attend a state flagship for Engineering. He did not get into in-state flagships (Va Tech, UVA) so made the decision to go to Penn State. Has had a very positive experience there and some excellent internship opportunities.