Penn State

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my question about Penn State for DMV families… why would you want your child to go there instead of UVA or UMD? Yes, College Park is a construction site and has never been pretty, but they are all three good schools with fun athletics and amazing academics. Why pay to go to another state’s flagship? My DH wants my son to apply there and I cannot get him to articulate why it would be better than our home university! Not dissing it- honestly curious. If you can afford it, why did you choose it? Just to get away from the area? Is it really the Happy Valley? What makes it the special place?.

Most OOS kids aiming for PSU probably can’t get into those two, especially UVA.

One might choose PSU over UVA if they were interested in certain types of engineering or engineering in general. Like VT, Penn State students seem very happy. In our group we don't know any Penn State students that are unhappy with PSU but we know several that don't like UVA for whatever reason. Clearly not scientific study...

Possibly, but if the kid had the stats to get into UVA they could go to a better engineering school. I’m not bashing PSU, it’s just that the student qualifications between PSU admits and UVA admits are very different.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s my question about Penn State for DMV families… why would you want your child to go there instead of UVA or UMD? Yes, College Park is a construction site and has never been pretty, but they are all three good schools with fun athletics and amazing academics. Why pay to go to another state’s flagship? My DH wants my son to apply there and I cannot get him to articulate why it would be better than our home university! Not dissing it- honestly curious. If you can afford it, why did you choose it? Just to get away from the area? Is it really the Happy Valley? What makes it the special place?.

Most OOS kids aiming for PSU probably can’t get into those two, especially UVA.

One might choose PSU over UVA if they were interested in certain types of engineering or engineering in general. Like VT, Penn State students seem very happy. In our group we don't know any Penn State students that are unhappy with PSU but we know several that don't like UVA for whatever reason. Clearly not scientific study...

Possibly, but if the kid had the stats to get into UVA they could go to a better engineering school. I’m not bashing PSU, it’s just that the student qualifications between PSU admits and UVA admits are very different.

Probably one of the higher ranked public engineering programs such as Illinois, Purdue and maybe Michigan would be a possibility for a UVA admit but the private colleges ranked better than Penn State are MIT, Stanford, Caltech, CMU, Cornell and Johns Hopkins. None an easy admit. None of the publics outside of the top 10 would be an upgrade.

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Anonymous wrote:Stigma still exists.

Just among homophobes.

Nope, because coach raping football players in the locker room will always wrong.

Ohio State. Went on for decades. And then everybody accused the victims of making it up.

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Anonymous wrote:For a Big 10 school, Penn State has one of the more rural, remote locations. State College, PA is cute but tiny. Compared to Columbus or Ann Arbor or Madison or Bloomington… No wonder Pitt is surging. PSU is a school for football fans only.

Bloomington is also small and in the middle of nowhere.

We are from PA. My oldest son had no interest in Penn State because it is in the middle of nowhere. We probably should have had him apply but we didn't. He is thrilled to be going to Pitt in the Fall. Kid 2 wants to go to PSU. They are so similar yet so different.

Similar but opposite. My oldest is at Penn State, I think my youngest will end up at Pitt. I’m also in Pennsylvania.

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Solid school, making wise decision by closing a number of satellite campuses. Mishandled Sandusky issue and continues to pay the price for that mistake.