I received 0 scholarships in LionPath with a 4.37 WGPA (pretty high for my school) and a 1490 SAT. When people with worse stats are getting into Schreyer and other scholarships, I don’t know what to think. Sure, PSU doesn’t give many scholarships, but when you are well over the 75th percentile and receive nothing, it is infuriating.
You’re really stuck on this, huh?
You have another option. Penn State isn’t affordable. That is a fact. Look toward the school that’s giving you opportunities.
Also you’re an OOS student applying to a state-related university that clearly states on its website that it gives few scholarships.
Actually I can’t edit my previous post to add to it so I’ll just comment again. You’ve posted several times about this on both here and Reddit. It sucks that you didn’t get into the selective programs you wanted to get into. It sucks that Penn State followed through on its warning that it doesn’t give many scholarships. It sucks that for whatever reason you don’t want to go to your other choice.
But it’s not cool to disparage other applicants for getting in. I’m getting a real sense of defensive superiority here – “I only got rejected because of in-state bias, other people were so much worse than me”…
Schreyer puts a lot of emphasis on the essays. They don’t even look at SAT scores! You sent your essays to me and I said they were fine. But maybe people wrote essays that were fine but also super engaging, or fine but also very unexpected and original, or even just fine but really resonated with those particular adcoms on that particular day. You seem to have taken “There’s nothing wrong with your essays” as proof that “worse” people got into Schreyer unfairly instead of how I meant it, which was “There were thousands of applicants and most of them likely had essays that were well-written and technically correct, just like yours.”
Everybody who applies to those programs is a good high school student. Schreyer’s acceptance rate is usually below 25%.
When I was looking up that 20-25% statistic, I found this: https://www.shc.psu.edu/counselors/denied.cfm It says the following:
I would encourage you to move on. But if you’re set on figuring out why you didn’t get in, you could do as they suggest. I expect it’ll either be “We just had too many good applicants for not enough seats” or maybe, if you’re lucky, something about the essays. At least then you’d see that it’s more than just stats and you shouldn’t hold yourself on a pedestal above the people who got in.
All I get when I contact people about my application is “there is nothing you did wrong”. That is a load of crap. If there is absolutely nothing wrong, I would have gotten in, right?
Also, I have read essays of people who got in and their argumentation is simple and absolute. I did not use your words as validation because you think my essays are boring and trite. Why you did not just say that I don’t know.
If in-state bias doesn’t exist, explain why 70% of accepted Schreyer students come from PA when the application ratio is closer to 60-40.
Of course, I would get denied though. I should have expected it because as even the people closest to me think I will amount to nothing in life. I am an “embarrassment”, a “disgrace and coward”. Why should I expect random people on the internet to think any differently?
My dreams of PSU were an escape from my depressed reality, but even that’s gone now.
Rather than worrying about Penn State you need to seek professional counseling for your depression and self worth issues.
There were THOUSANDS of applicants with “nothing wrong.” How do you suggest letting them all in for a final class of 300 students?
…Because you’d have reacted like this. What would be the point? Who knows if the adcoms had the exact same emotional reaction to a piece of writing as some random person? Seems unlikely.
Could I see your source, please? I would like to ensure that it’s ACCEPTED and not ATTENDING. Because the reason Penn State overall is so PA-focused is because it’s too expensive for many OOS students.
Because the tone of this thread concerns me, I took a quick look at your posting history. You’re a junior, right, trying to move right into college? That is at least a partial explanation of why your objective stats (which are excellent) weren’t enough to get you into some of the schools you wanted. But it looks like you do have two excellent choices, so why not focus on them?