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[quote=Anonymous]Penn State is a huge, HUGE school. PP is correct that it is impossible for a school that large to be cliquey. There are 46,000+ students at the main campus.

I went there for undergrad (like a PP, I was in the honors college) and you can essentially build your own social circle because of the enormous student body. I went dual engineering/computer animation, and my social circle was mostly artsy animation people or science/engineering types. Not a lot of football and zero frat involvement in those scenes, but very fun and close (many higher-level classes in junior and senior year concentrate down to 30-50 of the students pursuing the same specialties, so it's easy to build relationships in smaller degree areas).

I met my Asian husband (an exchange student) there, too. There's a fairly large number of exchange students since the university is so large and a few thousand Asian students. I'm sure your daughter would be able to find people similar to her -- or completely different if she wants to push beyond the familiar (I know I did!). There's also a big variety of activities (I want to say I was active in maybe 6-8 clubs? I had something fun to look forward to every evening).

It's a perfectly good state school, and it will become what your daughter makes of it. If she's looking for a more intimate experience with like-minded people, it's not that type of school. But if she's still finding her passion and wants a lot of different academic paths to choose from, it's good from that perspective. [/quote]

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