Class of 2025 Admissions DISCUSSION

MYOS1634
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:51:08 +0000

Unfortunately, Penn State does not “meet need”. The PHEAA grants for Pennsylvania residents hardly make a dent and there are very, very few merit scholarships (Millenium, Provost, Schreyer) which aren’t very big anyway.
If you have more affordable options, be they Pitt, Temple, or another state’s flagship, especially if you were offered Honors College admission, don’t hesitate. If you do hesitate, we can tell you which choices are best for what you want, and if you don’t have an affordable choice we can even suggest a couple (because many students in PA end up with barely to not really affordable choices, or even…unaffordable choices.)
Despite this being the Penn State forum, I totally agree that Penn State is not worth taking “a small mortgage” for, and certainly no more than the federal loans in debt (ie., more than the 5.5K loans for freshman year = there should be a more affordable choice).