Still waiting. If they can post “Your application has been updated. Please check back soon for a status update.” why can’t they post the actual decision. :((
No update for us. Portal still says his application is under review.
It will be interesting to see what the acceptance rate / yield rates look like next year. Plenty of high stat kids will ultimately go elsewhere, and deferred/waitlisted kids will start feeling the love from other universities where they’ve been accepted. It’s been an interesting application process, that’s for sure.
For everyone whose students were waitlisted, I’m really sorry. Not the news you were hoping for…
I know right
@vamom4 exactly! I thought i couldn’t see a more frustrating message in the portal than deferred!
Being told there is a status update check back soon is hilarious at this point, after waiting since August
U just have to laugh ???
My son was offered waitlist for UP but it also says:
If you choose not to remain on the Wait List, we can immediately offer you admission to a campus other than University Park.
Is this different than 2+2? Does that mean it would be 4 years at another campus?
It looks like everyone who heard so far today has been waitlisted.
Perhaps they uploaded the waitlisted first?
Fingers crossed for everyone…
@MyaCocoa just saw your update on decisions only!
What do u think?
Well damn then my day is gonna suck if they did that first lol
Atleast waitlist is better than a flat out rejection.
Wait listed for UP. Stats on on Admissions page.
Come on Veterans! This is my time when I need you! QUESTION: He is being given a choice.
"We have identified you as eligible for University Park’s Wait List.
This will allow us to keep you under consideration for University Park admission if space becomes available. Our goal is to notify you as soon as possible about your admission decision, but no later than May 15.
Please confirm or decline your wait list invitation using the buttons below.
If you choose not to remain on the Wait List, we can immediately offer you admission to a campus other than University Park."
So would the alternative campus be for all 4 years? What should he do? I thought before people had posted that most wait listers eventually get in?
Does anyone have an idea what the “come back soon for update” is going to be?
I know this update happened well after 8 AM. I had probably checked as late as about 1:15 PM EST or so, and then had to go to the doctor with my daughter. When I got back two hours later the portal had updated with my son’s results. So I would say it IS updating more than once a day.
When I came in the door my S’s expression looked like he’d just been through a war. Stoic, but clearly very upset.
PSU University Park Common Data Set 2017-2018
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on the waiting list: 2,168
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 1,359
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 0
@MyaCocoa There are only 2 campuses maybe a few others I’m not aware of that offer 4 years at the branch. So its a 2+2 but I think you have to maintain a satisfactory grade point average to transfer to UP
I just reread my son’s and see the same thing about being offered a spot on another campus. Makes me feel a little better about the process.
Update was between 2 and 230 for us
Nobody on the waitlist was accepted last year?
@allieandjoe Does that mean no one who was wait listed got accepted?
That’s how it appears…here’s the link https://budget.psu.edu/CDSRedesign/cds.aspx?reportindicator=FreshAdmn&Location=UP&AY=20172018
I think Admissions has NO clue what they are doing. I would be willing to bet the waitlist may be big this year. I would not be surprised if many kids get off the waitlist and offered admission. I’m sure they are throwing darts trying to figure out what a yield will be. Why offer EA and common app in the same year???
@MyaCocoa from psu common data set 2017-2018
Roughly 30,000 freshmen were admitted 2017-2018
Of that almost 8,000 enrolled
Zero from wait list as @allieandjoe showed
This is hopeless , those numbers are depressing
And this year was unprecedented high number of applications by 11/30 said psu in writing ?
We knew many many applicants were going to choose psu, that’s why we applied EA in mid August ! 
With great stats for reasonable hope
Ugh
Still waiting for updates status soon message but wait list is not what I thought