Accepted To Honors College!

G_Dad
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:23:08 +0000

S was NOT accepted (I will not call it rejected because I know he worked hard enough to get accepted).
His stats, as best I recall are:
Competative Catholic HS in DC area
SAT – 1310 out of 1600
GPA – 3.987 W, 3.85 UW
Commended Scholar
Baseball in HS all 4 years
Service work and tutoring
Worked, including this past summer in an agricultural research job.

Zoeinnj and toneranger - this was an interesting discussion and I agree, they should make you apply ED to Schreyer. I have read this board a lot over the past year and a half or so, and I have seen a number of kids post on here that they have applied to Schreyer as their ‘safety’ after applying to the Ivys. My S loves Penn State. We were just up there this past week to the Eberly accepted students program and his interview for another program. There are so many opportunities at Penn State for all students. The kids just need to take advantage of them. I too think it would have been easier to take advantage of those opportunities if your ‘peers’ are doing it.

If he got accepted to Schreyer, he was 100% certain he was going. If he gets accepted to this other program at Penn State, he is 99% certain he is going. But, if the other program doesn’t come through, he told us that we will need to evaluate all his options, because then money becomes the issue. We will support him no matter what he decides.

Congrats to all those accepted and all that applied! It is a great opportunity - take advantage of it!