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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]don't bother with test scores unless you are over 1400[/b]), 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. [/quote]
Penn State's 25%-75% SAT range is 1220-1380. IMO anything over 1200 is solid in this case, for sure a 1300 should have been submitted.

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