Chances for Merit or FA?

LucieTheLakie
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:23:15 +0000

We just got back from an admitted students day at PSU. They are very up-front about the costs of attending. You need to plan on budgeting approximately $33,000 a year in-state and $46,000 OOS. There are some scholarship monies available, but they are not common and departmental dollars are pretty much committed by mid-April and are only offered to students who’ve enrolled. If you’re still considering other schools that you maybe only got decisions from on 4/01, you’re out of luck.

PSU is not lacking in families who are willing to pony up, even if that requires taking out large Parent Plus loans, so don’t apply there thinking they’re going to offer you any financial incentives, unless you are genuinely Ivy-caliber or provide some other serious hook.