I cant decide between Penn State campuses

jlhpsu
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:52:04 +0000

Have you looked at Altoona? Smaller, beautiful campus, you can stay all 4 years and the campus is basically in the middle of a neighborhood.

That being said, as others here have mentioned, Penn State is very expensive. It is the second highest tuition of all public universities IN THE COUNTRY. It is not a state school. It’s state related. OOS tuition is crazy high, though in line with a lot of other big flagship schools OOS tuition. Also, Penn State is notorious for not giving aid. They just don’t. Barely anyway. If you get into the honors college, you can get some merit aid, but as others mentioned, it is only $5500 per year. You really don’t have to wait to see what you get from Penn State. You will very most likely get nada. You CAN get student loans of course. But if you don’t want the UP environment and you are thinking of majoring in a liberal arts major - then an in state small school would more likely fit the bill. Or an OOS that gives lots of merit or need based aid. Penn State does neither.