<p>Hi, looking to know the cost of a Student Fitness Membership for the year at UP. Also, looking to understand how crowded the facilities get and how difficult it is to get cardio machines. Thanks.</p>
<p>^how crowded do the basketball gyms get?</p>
<p>There are pickup games virtually all the time. You are usually welcome to join a game or bring a bunch of people, but generally speaking it is not a problem.</p>
<p>i didnt get into university park 
i really wanted to go to Penn State it was my top choice but im really not comfortable with a satellite campus…
is there any way i can get into University Park???
my GPA is pretty low overall a 3.1
but first semester senior year i got a 3.8 and this semester i have a 4.0 my SAT is an 1810
they made a decision before they looked at my senior grades though.
But have you heard of people saying something or doing something to get into University park?
thanks for the help</p>
<p>you can e-mail admissions and ask them to review your application - send them your senior grades and write about how you improved and how much you want to go to UPark.</p>
<p>About how long does a response take with their rolling admissions?</p>
<p>@NJscholar – Wow, because that wasn’t rude at all… Duke is also first name, btw. For someone who claims to be a “scholar,” you seem to lack that intellect.</p>
<p>I just put down a deposit last night (yay!) and now I’m looking at the housing contract. Is living in a supplemental worth the lower cost?</p>
<p>Supplemental isn’t something you choose, it’s something you are assigned when all the real rooms are filled but enough people haven’t dropped out yet to give everyone a room.</p>
<p>Supplemental housing is not something you can choose (as greenbutton noted) and is not something most people would choose. At the start of the semester there might be 8 of you shoehorned into a dorm lounge, and people trickle out as spots in regular rooms open up. If you are lucky (like I was) you are only in supplemental for a few weeks, if you are unlucky you wind up crammed in there the whole semester. It is not bad if there are just a couple of you, but that is exactly what they try to avoid - they would rather have 4 people in one lounge than two people in each of two lounges.</p>
<p>Just kidding - I get the option of a standard double or a triple. There’s only a $255 difference, so the cost doesn’t matter so much anymore, but would I regret living in a triple? I’m worried that I’ll get a roommate that I don’t like. I have a better chance of liking a roommate if I get two…</p>
<p>any advice on how to negotiate financial aid? i received $40,000 in grants/scholarships from Lehigh University and about $15,000 from U of Delaware. I am a PA resident. Is there any chance of penn state giving me more money? so far, from penn state, i got a pell grant, state grant, and 2 loan options</p>
<p>From personal experience and hearing from others, there’s really no “negotiating” just taking whatever they give you, which usually isn’t much. Seems like you got a decent amount though.</p>
<p>Btw, thanks to everyone who answered questions for me when I was gone. If anyone has any questions about study abroad or the program I did, shoot me a PM.</p>
<p>How was the price you paid for SA compared to normal PSU tuition? You don’t have to say exactly how much, but what I’m really asking is the actual schooling part that much more for wherever you went?</p>
<p>There was a program fee of a few thousand dollars (on top of regular tuition), but it was actually cheaper than staying at school because of room and board. This may be unique to programs like mine that are faculty-led, but obviously the price differs by program.</p>
<p>Each program has a budget sheet on the info page (search from [Programs > Search</a> (simple) > Education Abroad](<a href=“http://gpglobalea.gp.psu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.SimpleSearch]Programs > Search”>Programs>Search (simple)>Education Abroad)) that’s pretty well laid out, so there aren’t really any hidden fees that just come out of nowhere.</p>
<p>i’ve heard that state fuindings for psu have benn cut up to 50%. how is that affecting students?? have you noticed a change in program offerings? do you have any difficulty getting classes you want?
thanks!</p>
<p>My understanding is that that is only the proposed budget, so nothing has really happened yet. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if the difficulty getting into classes question was with respect to the first question or not, but people at Penn State have just as much trouble getting into classes as students at every other college do.</p>
<p>The 50% cut would be what passed last year, and what is proposed this year, combined; it’s a cut in what the State gives PSU so it isn’t a cut of the entire budget by 50% because state funding is only a relatively small portion of the total budget. </p>
<p>The main effects have been in building projects, cooperative ag offices, travel, and a school-wide review of programs (to see if there is duplication across colleges). Some (I want to say 4 or 5) majors have been cut, but those were ones duplicated by other colleges and profoundly under-enrolled. Nothing you would have heard of, likely. Cuts are likely to continue since the state of PA has its own financial worries. </p>
<p>I’m not a total PSU fan, and am not an alum, so I admit that bias when I say that it seems there is lots of room for fiscal improvement at PSU. Students are going to see the results in tuition continuing to rise, but probably not in other ways.</p>
<p>I agree that there are many ways to save money that don’t effect programs and small economies can add up. A few ideas here-- <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/education/19college.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/education/19college.html</a></p>
<p>The dining hall at my older S’s school did away with trays, mostly for environmental reasons (saving all the water used to wash them, and the electricity to heat it). They discovered that when students used trays they had a tendency to pick up food that they didn’t eat. When they had to make another trip for additional food a lot less food was wasted.</p>
<p>BTW, the proposal for this year is a 30% cut-- <a href=“http://live.psu.edu/story/57644[/url]”>http://live.psu.edu/story/57644</a></p>
<p>How much loan are you borrowing? My Mom might be able to pay some of it out of the $20,000 I am short of for tuition b/c I received very little aid from PSU. I created a new thread about this btw.</p>