Haven’t checked this forum in a while but wow…seems like an insane amount of people were waitlisted. I’m still unde review since I changed my major to DUS a while ago (still have EA status) but looking at all of these waitlists has blown away my confidence to say the least. PSU was one of my top schools, but chances aren’t great for me so it’s time to be realistic and seriously consider other schools I guess.
I’m shocked i got waitlisted. Penn State was not necessarily at the top of my list, but it would’ve been nice to have. I got a 1230 on my SAT (630 english, 600 math) and had a 3.65 UW GPA with 11 APs/honors. I’m OOS. Oh well i guess. this kind of sucks.
I applied for poly sci btw
Do you guys think they will Accept any more EA students, or just start waitlisting the rest?
It would be kind of weird if they just randomly waitlisted all EA students, like I can’t imagine they would do that just because we chose EA. They would probably look into our stats just like any other application.
@User7531 I’m looking for the same info as you - our status is still under review.
Snowing in state college. Will admissions open today?
We still have “under review” in portal after the crazy cycling messages yesterday afternoon
Fingers crossed and good luck to all who still wait here together ?
The more I think about it, the more I don’t understand how a wait list can form when you don’t know who all else is waiting for review. I mean, how do they know that those who have not been reviewed should not be wait listed and maybe some already wait listed should have been accepted?
MyaCocoa. I agree. Wonder if I should have waited and not filed EA at Penn State. It worked fine at other schools.Maybe if they didnt defer so many at Christmas with little or no review then maybe they would defer at this point instead of waitlist so early. I am not an expert,but maybe they dont defer twice . Good luck everyone.This time next year our kids will be well on their way to a great education wherever they land.
@MyaCocoa I have no idea either, my concern is that we are just numbers at this point
How much attention can each applicant receive when admissions has been overwhelmed
We just have to wait
But Maybe you should call admissions directly and ask to discuss your personal case with an actual counselor?
You may get more specific info from psu to guide you about wait list decision
Check portal at 8, no update since last night. Status says “under review” Sigh…
Something to ponder while we wait…
There was a shooting incident in state college yesterday. Linked below via “onward state”
Sounds like a lack of communication on behalf of the university…
Not jumping to conclusions or “bashing”, it just caught my attention.
@MyaCocoa It does seem like if a wait list has started, those of us who are still “under review” despite being EA and it’s only January, will probably be wait listed as well?
That we are just waiting for the system to final update us
If wait list is because spots are filled, what else? I know I’m just speculating, sorry, this really is now beyond confusing
Just speculating here as well but maybe Admission counselors do not have enough time to evaluate all the apps by 1/31 so they are waitlisting to determine which students are actually interested in attending (accepting wait list) before offering admission…or waitlist could be another way of deferring by using different terminology… I find it hard to believe majors are full prior to 1/31…
DD was part of the EA group that got deferred due to not getting through all the apps. Still waiting, still under review…
Has anyone called admissions? If so, what are they saying?
@ziveli513 , campus (and admissions) is open today. Just a few flurries.
@sophley thanks!
I just spoke with Admissions. My son applied to Smeal and was waitlisted yesterday. He was offered admission to a Commonwealth campus which Admissions did confirm was the 2+2 program. Basically I was told that University Park is “close to full” for all majors and that switching to DUS at this point would not get him admitted to University Park. The admissions counselor I spoke with suggested that we “give it some time” and that they anticipate making offers of admission to UP to students on the wait list sooner than May. One thing she also added was that if he accepted the 2+2 program now, he would not be eligible for the wait list for UP.
Not sure if this helps anyone and I’m guessing people might get different information depending on who they speak with at PSU, but I wanted to pass it along for whatever its worth. Good luck everyone!
Has anyone who’s portal was “Under Review” last night received any update?
@jcs1918 thank u for sharing info from admissions today
@MYOS1634 Another thing that confuses me, psu admissions states on website choice of major Doesn’t affect admission to up, in general
Except those that are listed as having extra requirements
Or smeal which people in the know have demonstrated is hardest to get
So how is it that students being accepted with lower stats to some majors get UP while others with higher stats are being wait listed or sent to 2nd choice, branch
Seems another layer of possible random treatment of applicants ?
I’m still searching for the logic of it all
And now, if someone wants to be reconsidered after getting a decision they weren’t hoping for, which majors are similar but have spots open?
Will admissions counselors give a list of majors related that are open?
Or does one guess?
Are some really going to end up penalized because they didn’t choose the right PRE MAJOR?
Since we all know no one is locked into major until junior year
Since we are still under review I won’t be contacting admissions until we get a decision
Just thinking ahead and for those who just got wait listed but have stats that show they had very reasonable expectation to get into UP