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Anonymous wrote:My DS also got accepted right before Thanksgiving. He's got a 4.38 GPA, 1500 SAT, 10 APs and several post-AP courses, varsity/club sports, summer jobs, pretty good essay and LORs. He's majoring in Computer Science.

Does he plan on attending? With his profile, he should be able to get into a top in-state school (UVA/Tech or UMD depending on where you live), all great options and cheaper.

We're in VA (Fairfax). He also applied to UVA and VA Tech. His top choice is UVA. If he doesn't get in there, then he'll have to choose between VA Tech and Penn State. Penn State is a little closer, VA Tech is a little cheaper (though, surprisingly, not by much at all). He liked Penn State a little bit better after the tours, but he'll need to sit down and compare course offerings and programs.

Did you ED @ UVA? He should get into both UVA and Tech. His profile is strong enough for those two schools (definitely for Tech) but not too strong that they may reject to protect yield. Ofc, you never know these days.. Not sure why you say Tech is not that much cheaper. Tuition and Fees at Tech is about $16K and $40K at PSU. That's a $25K difference!

Good luck!

He did ED to UVA. Fingers crossed.

We're basing the price on cost of attendance... which is $40,000 at VA Tech and $50,000 at Penn State (he got a little merit $$). So there is a difference, but it was not as much as I expected.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS also got accepted right before Thanksgiving. He's got a 4.38 GPA, 1500 SAT, 10 APs and several post-AP courses, varsity/club sports, summer jobs, pretty good essay and LORs. He's majoring in Computer Science.

Does he plan on attending? With his profile, he should be able to get into a top in-state school (UVA/Tech or UMD depending on where you live), all great options and cheaper.

We're in VA (Fairfax). He also applied to UVA and VA Tech. His top choice is UVA. If he doesn't get in there, then he'll have to choose between VA Tech and Penn State. Penn State is a little closer, VA Tech is a little cheaper (though, surprisingly, not by much at all). He liked Penn State a little bit better after the tours, but he'll need to sit down and compare course offerings and programs.

Did you ED @ UVA? He should get into both UVA and Tech. His profile is strong enough for those two schools (definitely for Tech) but not too strong that they may reject to protect yield. Ofc, you never know these days.. Not sure why you say Tech is not that much cheaper. Tuition and Fees at Tech is about $16K and $40K at PSU. That's a $25K difference!

Good luck!

Penn State COA https://admissions.psu.edu/costs-aid/tuition/ $52k OOS
VA Teach COA https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/cost.html $37k Instate

DP: Still a 15k/yr difference. But maybe PSU would be more likely to offer aid to an OOS student?

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Anonymous wrote:That is really fast! Congratulations! Was there something that really stood out in their application to get an immediate response?

No idea how their review process works in terms of timing. For what it is worth, DS was high stats for PS (4.0 UW, 10 APs, 1550, CS major). MD public.

Is Penn State their safety school?

UMD in state is top choice. If not a direct admit to CS, then PS and other peers will come into consideration.

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Penn State University Park is a good school.

I would examine finer details to make a decision - e.g., do the department faculty and departmental strengths best fit the sub-specialization your child is interested in? Also look at where the university sends its grads for jobs. Wall Street might be more attainable from Penn State than VA Tech. I say might because neither are important feeders for that. Also, post-grad employment opportunities tend to be regionally concentrated around a school. So that should be factored in where appropriate. I have an NYC cousin who went to a Florida school deliberately to escape the NE lifestyle. That's the kind of extra consideration that should factor into close decisions.

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No idea that Penn State is rolling. We haven't heard yet - 1490 SAT, 3.85 UGPA, 8 APs. Applying for Engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:No idea that Penn State is rolling. We haven't heard yet - 1490 SAT, 3.85 UGPA, 8 APs. Applying for Engineering.

They're more EA than true rolling, like Pitt or Arizona. For applications submitted before 1 Nov, they seem to release one batch of acceptances in mid-Dec and then another batch in mid-Dec. Then they become more "rolling" after the EA decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone admitted yet to business school from OOS?

We are also wondering as we are waiting for this.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid seems really interested in Penn State and it's never crossed my radar screen. I'm hearing that it's really popular in the DMV. Can someone give me the quick version of why it's great?

My kid went to a private here in DC where class sizes were small. Kid wanted to go to a big State U. Accepted to Wisconsin, Michigan, USC, Iowa and Indiana. Rejected from Texas. Good GPA and exceptional ACT score.

Nobody gives any love to PSU on DCUM. I got this from a post on the Ohio State post. Penn State placed, out of 199 ranked U.S. institutions, at No. 8 among public universities nationally and No. 4 among Big Ten institutions. Penn State rose to No. 24 among all U.S. universities, up from No. 26 last year.

My kids love the school and all the rah rah that goes along with sports. I found the campus to be beautiful and State College to be a great college town.

I have nothing but respect for the universities of Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio State. The are absolutely wonderful schools. My kid was accepted to all three. My kids wanted to be closer to home and were not interested in the super cold environments of these schools.

Also, the Penn State University’s alumni association is the cream of the crop. Its numbers alone are impressive—with 673,845 total alumni. It is the largest alumni group in the US.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid seems really interested in Penn State and it's never crossed my radar screen. I'm hearing that it's really popular in the DMV. Can someone give me the quick version of why it's great?

My kid went to a private here in DC where class sizes were small. Kid wanted to go to a big State U. Accepted to Wisconsin, Michigan, USC, Iowa and Indiana. Rejected from Texas. Good GPA and exceptional ACT score.

Nobody gives any love to PSU on DCUM. I got this from a post on the Ohio State post. Penn State placed, out of 199 ranked U.S. institutions, at No. 8 among public universities nationally and No. 4 among Big Ten institutions. Penn State rose to No. 24 among all U.S. universities, up from No. 26 last year.

My kids love the school and all the rah rah that goes along with sports. I found the campus to be beautiful and State College to be a great college town.

I have nothing but respect for the universities of Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio State. The are absolutely wonderful schools. My kid was accepted to all three. My kids wanted to be closer to home and were not interested in the super cold environments of these schools.

Also, the Penn State University’s alumni association is the cream of the crop. Its numbers alone are impressive—with 673,845 total alumni. It is the largest alumni group in the US.

I never realized that State College was in the tropics.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone admitted yet to business school from OOS?

We are also wondering as we are waiting for this.

+2 App completed the third week of Sep.

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I never realized that State College was in the tropics.

Compered to Wisconsin, minus 47 degrees, without wind chill factored into your equation seems like the tropics

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Acceptances roll out anywhere between the second week of November and mid-December for EA. It’s not a single date. There is also no rhyme or reason to who hears in November vs December. Each college releases in batches. You can have top scores and not hear until Dec 15th and middle scores and hear in November. Don’t be concerned if you haven’t heard yet. Unless they are completely overwhelmed or you didn’t get everything in by the EA due date (ie SRAR), you’ll hear by mid-December. DS attends for CS in the engineering school and absolutely loves it.

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I never realized that State College was in the tropics.

Compered to Wisconsin, minus 47 degrees, without wind chill factored into your equation seems like the tropics

Yes, but poster compared State College to Columbus and Ann Arbor as well.

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I never realized that State College was in the tropics.

Compered to Wisconsin, minus 47 degrees, without wind chill factored into your equation seems like the tropics

Yes, but poster compared State College to Columbus and Ann Arbor as well.

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State College is considerably colder than Columbus and gets about twice as much snow. Ann Arbor and State College are nearly identical climates in terms of temperature and snow--with State College being a touch snowier.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid seems really interested in Penn State and it's never crossed my radar screen. I'm hearing that it's really popular in the DMV. Can someone give me the quick version of why it's great?

My kid went to a private here in DC where class sizes were small. Kid wanted to go to a big State U. Accepted to Wisconsin, Michigan, USC, Iowa and Indiana. Rejected from Texas. Good GPA and exceptional ACT score.

Nobody gives any love to PSU on DCUM. I got this from a post on the Ohio State post. Penn State placed, out of 199 ranked U.S. institutions, at No. 8 among public universities nationally and No. 4 among Big Ten institutions. Penn State rose to No. 24 among all U.S. universities, up from No. 26 last year.

My kids love the school and all the rah rah that goes along with sports. I found the campus to be beautiful and State College to be a great college town.

I have nothing but respect for the universities of Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio State. The are absolutely wonderful schools. My kid was accepted to all three. My kids wanted to be closer to home and were not interested in the super cold environments of these schools.

Also, the Penn State University’s alumni association is the cream of the crop. Its numbers alone are impressive—with 673,845 total alumni. It is the largest alumni group in the US.

+1. Wonderful. Sounds like a great place to go to school.