Penn State is out?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS also got into Altoona. He applied in August for University Park, with Altoona as the second choice. He was test optional (because my friend who is a local guidance counselor said don't bother with test scores unless you are over 1400), he was willing to do the summer start, and picked a different major because he knew his preferred major was too competitive at this point. He has a 3.85W and amazing extracurriculars, unhooked otherwise though.

He heard nothing for months. We are in-state and a ton of people from his school (over 30% of the senior class) had also applied. Kids have been hearing here and there over recent weeks but the decisions seem to be dribbling out.

Yesterday around noon, my husband and I both got these random e-mails from the Altoona campus, which we had never communicated with before. It was a generic email that had a list of admissions deadlines (which is unnecessary because our kid already applied...4 months ago!). Meanwhile DS looked at his portal again and it looked different but there was no decision in there. Around dinnertime, he looked again and there it was - in at Altoona. We know PSU had an overwhelming number of applications, but why are the satellite campuses sending out emails to parents when they haven't given the kids notification of their decisions yet?

DS has since heard from other kids at school that the exact same thing happened to them. Kids applied early to UP for what was supposed to be a rolling decision, didn't hear anything for months, parents received emails out of nowhere from a satellite campus, and later that day the kid got into that satellite. I'm fine that he didn't get in but that's really poor form to send out spoilers to the parents before notifying the actual applicants. Glad we won't be funding this nonsense with our tuition dollars next year.

NP. This was our experience, too. My DD applied in early October. I received an email from Altoona yesterday and then my DD received notification that she was admitted to the Altoona Campus a few hours later.

She was already admitted to her top choice school so she wasn’t upset. I wasn’t upset either, but I did find the experience odd.

[Anonymous]

My son was accepted (University Park). He will likely enroll. Two questions:
1) Beneath his acceptance letter in the mypennstate.psu.edu portal there is a blue button reading "Accept your Offer of Admission". We've been hesitant to click it because he's not quite ready to commit. But wondering if clicking takes us to a new page/section that provides useful info that we should check out. I have to assume clicking one button won't suddenly commit my son, but nevertheless, we're hesitant to click it!
2) Any insight about housing/dorms? Do you have to formally accept and enroll to gain access to housing or is it a separate process?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Application STILL under review???? Anybody else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son was accepted (University Park). He will likely enroll. Two questions:
1) Beneath his acceptance letter in the mypennstate.psu.edu portal there is a blue button reading "Accept your Offer of Admission". We've been hesitant to click it because he's not quite ready to commit. But wondering if clicking takes us to a new page/section that provides useful info that we should check out. I have to assume clicking one button won't suddenly commit my son, but nevertheless, we're hesitant to click it!
2) Any insight about housing/dorms? Do you have to formally accept and enroll to gain access to housing or is it a separate process?

Thanks.

I can't answer question number one. Sorry

As for question number two, yes you have to accept the offer from PSU. Then, at some point, you need to apply to housing. PSU states that Freshman housing is a lottery. In my experience, the kids that accept offers late in the process get the worst dorms. If you are assigned supplemental housing it is beyond belief. 6-8 boys in a dorm room is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was accepted (University Park). He will likely enroll. Two questions:
1) Beneath his acceptance letter in the mypennstate.psu.edu portal there is a blue button reading "Accept your Offer of Admission". We've been hesitant to click it because he's not quite ready to commit. But wondering if clicking takes us to a new page/section that provides useful info that we should check out. I have to assume clicking one button won't suddenly commit my son, but nevertheless, we're hesitant to click it!
2) Any insight about housing/dorms? Do you have to formally accept and enroll to gain access to housing or is it a separate process?

Thanks.

I can't answer question number one. Sorry

As for question number two, yes you have to accept the offer from PSU. Then, at some point, you need to apply to housing. PSU states that Freshman housing is a lottery. In my experience, the kids that accept offers late in the process get the worst dorms. If you are assigned supplemental housing it is beyond belief. 6-8 boys in a dorm room is insane.

Actually it really is random. DS accepted early January and got Pollock. His friend accepted in early April and got East. The only people with priority are athletes near their practice areas. I also read several students who accepted and paid deposit in November and got supplemental in Pollock. 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Application STILL under review???? Anybody else?

My DD’s is too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was accepted (University Park). He will likely enroll. Two questions:
1) Beneath his acceptance letter in the mypennstate.psu.edu portal there is a blue button reading "Accept your Offer of Admission". We've been hesitant to click it because he's not quite ready to commit. But wondering if clicking takes us to a new page/section that provides useful info that we should check out. I have to assume clicking one button won't suddenly commit my son, but nevertheless, we're hesitant to click it!
2) Any insight about housing/dorms? Do you have to formally accept and enroll to gain access to housing or is it a separate process?

Thanks.

I can't answer question number one. Sorry

As for question number two, yes you have to accept the offer from PSU. Then, at some point, you need to apply to housing. PSU states that Freshman housing is a lottery. In my experience, the kids that accept offers late in the process get the worst dorms. If you are assigned supplemental housing it is beyond belief. 6-8 boys in a dorm room is insane.

Actually it really is random. DS accepted early January and got Pollock. His friend accepted in early April and got East. The only people with priority are athletes near their practice areas. I also read several students who accepted and paid deposit in November and got supplemental in Pollock. 🤷‍♀️

Was your son assigned to supplemental housing? Pollock isn't great but comparatively, it is much better that being assigned to supplemental housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was accepted (University Park). He will likely enroll. Two questions:
1) Beneath his acceptance letter in the mypennstate.psu.edu portal there is a blue button reading "Accept your Offer of Admission". We've been hesitant to click it because he's not quite ready to commit. But wondering if clicking takes us to a new page/section that provides useful info that we should check out. I have to assume clicking one button won't suddenly commit my son, but nevertheless, we're hesitant to click it!
2) Any insight about housing/dorms? Do you have to formally accept and enroll to gain access to housing or is it a separate process?

Thanks.

I can't answer question number one. Sorry

As for question number two, yes you have to accept the offer from PSU. Then, at some point, you need to apply to housing. PSU states that Freshman housing is a lottery. In my experience, the kids that accept offers late in the process get the worst dorms. If you are assigned supplemental housing it is beyond belief. 6-8 boys in a dorm room is insane.

Actually it really is random. DS accepted early January and got Pollock. His friend accepted in early April and got East. The only people with priority are athletes near their practice areas. I also read several students who accepted and paid deposit in November and got supplemental in Pollock. 🤷‍♀️

He was assigned to South originally He was given a room with 7 other boys.


Was your son assigned to supplemental housing? Pollock isn't great but comparatively, it is much better that being assigned to supplemental housing.

[Anonymous]

Why the interest in a 2nd tier university?!?

[Anonymous]

And penn gives zero to crappy merit aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the interest in a 2nd tier university?!?

Because these kids didn’t get in other places.

Or they want football ( dummies)

Unless someone is instate there is zero reason to apply the whole network alumni we are Penn state lol 😂

Instate it’s the flagship so sure oos omg what moron pays that tuition?


I am extremely wealthy when my kids applied to college I made sure they knew finances and how to get a job when they got out and potentially higher degrees. Penn state general business degrees worthless

If a kid is eng or CS or accounting sure jobs hover if you paid OOS tuition you failed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the interest in a 2nd tier university?!?

Because these kids didn’t get in other places.

Or they want football ( dummies)

Unless someone is instate there is zero reason to apply the whole network alumni we are Penn state lol 😂

Instate it’s the flagship so sure oos omg what moron pays that tuition?


I am extremely wealthy when my kids applied to college I made sure they knew finances and how to get a job when they got out and potentially higher degrees. Penn state general business degrees worthless

If a kid is eng or CS or accounting sure jobs hover if you paid OOS tuition you failed

Rude.
Rude and wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the interest in a 2nd tier university?!?

Because these kids didn’t get in other places.

Or they want football ( dummies)

Unless someone is instate there is zero reason to apply the whole network alumni we are Penn state lol 😂

Instate it’s the flagship so sure oos omg what moron pays that tuition?


I am extremely wealthy when my kids applied to college I made sure they knew finances and how to get a job when they got out and potentially higher degrees. Penn state general business degrees worthless

If a kid is eng or CS or accounting sure jobs hover if you paid OOS tuition you failed

Rude.
Rude and wrong.

Some people need to put others down in order to feel good about themselves and their own choices. It’s best to just ignore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the interest in a 2nd tier university?!?

Because these kids didn’t get in other places.

Or they want football ( dummies)

Unless someone is instate there is zero reason to apply the whole network alumni we are Penn state lol 😂

Instate it’s the flagship so sure oos omg what moron pays that tuition?


I am extremely wealthy when my kids applied to college I made sure they knew finances and how to get a job when they got out and potentially higher degrees. Penn state general business degrees worthless

If a kid is eng or CS or accounting sure jobs hover if you paid OOS tuition you failed

Rude.
Rude and wrong.

Some people need to put others down in order to feel good about themselves and their own choices. It’s best to just ignore.

Yes, ignore. This douche is trolling every subject of this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And penn gives zero to crappy merit aid

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