@ziveli513 PSU updates housing info in February each year. Good Luck! I hope your daughter gets an acceptance soon.
@SAD1010 thank you very much. Glad your d17 was 
From the housing website:
" If a first-year student accepts the offer of admission after April 1, the student may not be assigned to a space that reflects the preferences indicated on the HFS Contract."
AFTER APRIL FIRST! Nothing is âgoneâ at this point, nothing will be gone next month at this pointâŠ
I donât know how to tell you guys this, but this is nothing - If you guys are stressed about housing right now, wait until your kid has been there a month and has to start locking down housing for NEXT year. Seriously. Iâm not kidding. And if they want to live on campus - they will be in a lottery with waitlists and they may not find out finally until March, etc⊠If they want to live off campus, they have to start looking for housing in October.
Wait, I have moreâŠWait until you want to go to a football game and hotels are $600 a night with a 2 night minimum and you have to book them a year in advance. Wait until you want to see your kid graduate so you have to get a hotel for the whole weekend because you wonât find out from Penn State which day they graduate until a few weeks before and hotels sell out 13 months in advance and cost $1800 for the weekend.
Penn State is FULL of things that will frustrate you. Itâs worth it to many. Only you can decide if itâs worth it to you.
EnjoyâŠ
Monday finally
WE AREâŠhopeful
Good luck to all as we wait ?
waiting since 8/15
@jihpsu this is completely all accurate and that isnât even considering academic or advising frustrations and multiple times things will feel unfair. However, lots of great life lessons for the kids. My D17 still believes 100% that PSU is the best school on the planet and could not imagine life anywhere else! And she survived unrenovated East her freshman year.
@loulou2 My daughter lived in unrenovated East as well (There were no renovated dorms when she went so that wasnât an option!) and not only did she survive, she thrived. While there are frustrations, I agree that itâs helpful for building life skills. Mom and Dad arenât going to be there to do every little thing for you, so youâd better learn to make that call, get in line, reach out to advisors (because they generally arenât coming to find you), etc⊠- itâs really preparation for life after college.
I am a PSU alumni, so is my husband, my daughter will graduate from there in 3 months and my son is a sophomore at Penn State - and I have two more kids in the pike planning on attending. We LOVE Penn State - but we see her warts too. We just think itâs abundantly worth it from an academic and life preparation perspective!
My d Waiting to be accepted Since 8/15
to âthe best school on the planetâ
Why else would we wait anxiously for months now, my d loves penn state
if she (and we, legacy family) didnât, we wouldnât be putting up with this admissions mess having been accepted to 6 fine schools to date
No news of decisions since 1/2
Anyone here have classmates or parent friends who have decisions in January so far?
On Facebook admissions answered immediately yes ! this am when asked if open today after all the snow
I then asked if admission decisions have been made since 1/2
No answer or any fb update yet, hours later
We love penn state, still d first choice, having grown up going to football games in nearby happy valley 
Anyone hear about admission decisions lately?
@loulou2 @jlhpsu , for your kids that went to PSU, did they bid for dorm rooms after freshman year, or did they find their own housing. Does applying SLO for years 2+ increase their chance to get a dorm room since it in for a dedicated group?
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My son was accepted last year 3rd week of January. He accepted offer the end of January and received renovated east housing. Next year he will be living off campus and needed to put in applications during October-Many apartments downtown are lottery - not first come⊠fortunately he Was able to secure an apartment in his desired area but as @jlhpsu indicated it was stressful- thousands of kids applying for a few vacancies in a preferred area.
@Psu2023dad My daughter lived in the dorms only one year. Then she moved off campus. My son went to Altoona for a year and then up to main campus and into an apartment. So I only have freshman dorm experience. I do know that applying to be an RA helps get housing for subsequent years and so does applying to an SLO - but I canât say by how much because I am not sure. My niece and nephew are also Penn Staters and both were able to get housing for their second year. Take that anecdotal evidence for what itâs worth 
There are dorm areas that are mostly all upper classmen so itâs definitely possible to get housing for second year and beyond - itâs just a whole other process of application, lottery, etcâŠHere is the timeline for non freshman housing: https://housing.psu.edu/housing-lottery-timeline
Iâm sure someone here who has done the whole process can answer questions better than I since my kids went off campus right after Freshman year.
Another plus for Schreyer and Paterno Fellows is housing for as long as youâd like.
Look into SLOs open to 2nd year students and think down the line, what do you need to do/have taken to join?
You have to know who you want to live with Soph yr in Oct of your freshman year? In all likelihood you will have different friends who you want to live with. What if you secure an apartment in Oct, but get a bid to a Greek org and want to live with them? Sorry for all the questions, but very curious how this works. Thanks
this info about PSU housing policy is so helpful!
Pitt guarantees on campus housing for first 3 years I just learned
One more piece of info to consider if d gets admitted to UP
Pros and cons for her to weigh, if fortunate enough to get accepted to UP
And if this unprecedented high number of applicants doesnât change all
What if so many applied EA and got accepted and have committed and chosen housing
and very few open spots are left at this point?
Past experiences may actually be irrelevant regarding admissions and what housing was available still in the past at which date
Why havenât we gotten decisions after 5 months of review
Anyone hear of admission decisions since 1/2?
Iâm usually optimistic but I am getting a very bad gut feeling about impending wait list
13 business days left until 1/31.
Can admissions go through the thousands EA they deferred because they couldnât process by 12/22?
And all the regular decision added after 11/30?
Someone posted here earlier that a few years ago PSU overenrolled and was offering students $ to go to branch campuses?
I think Iâm remembering that post correctly?
@citymama9 Yes, you have to know who you want to live with in October to secure an apartment for the next year. Itâs a major run for housing starting in October. My daughter chose her freshman roommate to live with the next year and by the end of freshman year she was dreading it and suffered through sophomore year with that girl also.
Once you sign a lease, you are bound to that lease. There are often people scrambling to find housing who did not get a bid to a fraternity so they are last minute looking for people who need a roommate. And sometimes, kids sign a lease, get into a fraternity and donât live in that frat that year OR they get someone to take over the lease so they can live in the fraternity house. There are no sorority houses so girls rushing sororities either live off campus or they try to live in South Halls sophomore year which is where all of the sorority dorms are located.
It is all a major pain. For example, my sonâs one roommate for next year fell through so now they are looking for a third person to live in the house next year but everyone he knows has housing already. He has to wait until the transfer students get accepted and begin their search.
Hence my point that these admission hiccups are only the start of the problems with life at a campus with 50,000 students.
@Psu2023dad My daughter lived in East freshman year. Then moved off campus to an apartment this year and is thriving. She is living with 4 other girls. They did not even attempt on-campus as itâs a gamble (at least then, things may have changed). We signed a lease parents weekend of her freshman year for her sophomore year - yes, in October. At least then, the issue was that the apartments want and get leases much earlier than when the lottery is for housing. So waiting for an apartment can be a gamble - apartments you may want may be gone before you find out about the lottery. I guess it depends on students situation but I do believe it tends to work out for most. I have no experience with SLO or Schreyer or Paterno housing.
@citymama9 My daughter is in a sorority but had to commit to off-campus sophomore housing way before rush second semester freshman year. From my understanding, the sorority housing is usually filled with Juniors now who may want to study abroad second semester. That is my daughterâs plan next year, however, we are figuring it out as that process is not super clear. Study abroad adds a whole other dynamic to the housing situation. My daughter attended summer session and met her current roommates then, so they got to know each other for a bit longer. But I consider her lucky it worked out so well.
@citymama9 Welcome! The students really do seem to figure out all their situations and, for us, it has always worked out well (knock on wood). And PSU isnât alone in these issue for sure. Good luck to those still waiting.
@ziveli513 yes, class of 2016 received attractive financial incentive offers to go to branch campuses for a year (or 2?) and then transfer to UP. Big discount on tuition. But my daughter and my niece and nephew all turned it down because they wanted university park.
Just wondering, I got into 2+2 for Smeal but I did not get into the main campus, so I decided to be asked to be reconsidered for the summer session at UP. Generally speaking, would I have a better chance at getting in for the summer session? Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.58 (school does not have weighted GPA)
SAT: 1320 (640 Math 680 English)
Activities: Track and Field, DECA, Internship, Volunteering, French Honor Society