<p>Merit based aid from Penn State!! HA HA !!!</p>
<p>It is all done in GPA order!! Only folks getting admitted right now have a GPA right at or above 4.0</p>
<p>That’s absolutely not true, themcgees. How did you come to that conclusion?</p>
<p>Several of my friends with under 3.6 GPA’s have already been accepted.</p>
<p>i think the people who havent heard yet are the people with competitive majors: business, nursing, education, etc.</p>
<p>Engineering isn’t competitive?</p>
<p>well its competitive but i havent really heard of really anyone whos gotten into the programs i listed</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/penn-state-university-park/1016986-class-2015-results-thread.html#post1065879769[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/penn-state-university-park/1016986-class-2015-results-thread.html#post1065879769</a>
Post #36: Accepted: School of Education (Educational Policy Major)
Post #2: Accepted into Smeal! (Isn’t Smeal Business?)</p>
<p>im talking about a majority.</p>
<p>megsshrubs I also applied to nursing and have yet to hear! I emailed admissions they said we will get a response in january :(</p>
<p>ahh man im still waiting on engineering.</p>
<p>Accepted to Eberly College of Sciences, University Park.
Chemistry Major.
Applied 11/24, accepted…today.
About a 4.76 weighted GPA out of 5. 21 out of 340-ish.
2260 SAT: 780 CR, 770 MA, 710 WR (8/12 essay).
36 ACT: 35 CR, 36 MA, 35 WR (32 with 8/12 essay), 36 SC
Male/Asian
Public School in Mass.
Junior year AP’s: Microecon. and BC Calc (both 5’s)
Senior year AP’s: Chem and English
Other than required CP courses, all Honors or AP.
Other stuff that may have helped:
Taking online college Calc 3 course, a lot of music - All-State bands, new england-wide orchestras, etc., math team captain, a variety of community service clubs, fluent in Chinese and taught english to kids in China for a few weeks during a summer.</p>
<p>Seems like Eberly is handing out a bunch of acceptances. Still hoping to get into Schreyer Honors College.</p>
<p>Applied 10/15
Accepted 11/5</p>
<p>GPA: 3.95 W
SAT: 2110
Teacher and counselor recs
Great essay, lots of activities
Female, hispanic</p>
<p>I applied to schryer’s honors college 11/29… still waiting for a reply to that.
Accepted to smeal at university park.</p>
<p>If Penn State is rolling admissions then why does it seem they split all applications into certain schools (Smeal, Eberly, etc.), do you think they look at them right when they get them or just wait until certain moment then go over all of those application for that specific school?</p>
<p>Do you think for my major (smeal) penn could reject me from the major but still accept me to the school as an undecided? I’m really nervous about applying to smeal with my stats but i already did it back in early october (3.23, 1930)</p>
<p>Accepted: College of Education at University Park!!</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: bleh
*ACT: 25</li>
<li>GPA: 4.29</li>
<li>Rank: School does not rank, but with my GPA, I am in the top 2% of my class (according to my counselor)</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: None
- Teacher Recs: None
- Counselor Rec: None
- Hook (if any): None that I know of</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: VA
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: Female</p>
<p>General Comments: First school that I know that I’ve been accepted into. I also applied to James Madison and George Mason, and I am still working on the University of Virginia. Parents want me to go to a Virginia, I want to go to PSU, but I need the money. We will see if I get any scholarships…</p>
<p>eromano: im a smeal major too, and i havent heard back yet either. i called a while ago and the lady said that they like to look at them when they receive more applications. this was back in october, and i know they started seriously considering smeal majors around last week after the deadline. i keep hearing ill hear soon but it seems like its been forever-i applied the same time as you.</p>
<p>and yes, you can be rejected from smeal and still be accepted to UP.</p>
<p>Have a lot of people been accepted into Engineering???</p>
<p>Admissions so far by College</p>
<p>I’ve tried to go back through this thread and identify which programs are accepting students so far. There are 30 acceptances posted here as of this morning - it does appear that more applicants from Eng and Science have posted here than other schools but that may be more of a reflection of the College Confidential audience, or the number of applicants to those schools or some other factor we can’t know from the information available to us.</p>
<p>Smeal 3
Engineering 7
Education 2
Eberly Science 8
Und Grad Studies 4
IST 1
Earth & Min 2
Liberal Arts 2
Health & Human 1
Agriculture 2
Communications 1
Didn’t Identify 4</p>
<p>Accepted to School of Engineering
In State
SAT Composite:
SAT I Math: 710
SAT I Critical Reading: 790
SAT I Writing: 660</p>
<p>SAT II Biology - E: 730
SAT II Physics - 740
SAT II Math II - 750</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.63
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 542</p>
<p>National Merit Commended Scholar, FBLA club 10th grade VP and Recording Secretary, Kick Off Mentors Team Leader and Treasurer. </p>
<p>Chinese Female</p>
<p>Current Classes: AP Calc BC, AP Physics EM, AP Psych, Honors Philosophy, Honors English, Engineering and Robotics</p>
<p>Accepted: University Park - Business College (notified Nov. 12)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.2 weighted - unknown unweighted
Class rank: 35 out of 640
SAT: 640 Math, 620 Reading, 670 Writing
3 APs, 11 Honors courses
EC: 4 years marching band, no sports, no employment, approx. 130+ hours volunteering
School: Large Public
Recs: Excellent counselor rec, good teacher rec
Out-of-State Student (CT, White, Jewish, Male)</p>