My DS will trade his Fall UP with your DS as he’s currently deferred at Purdue… 
Totally depends on majors…
right?! it’s all so crazy!! what is his major? my son is applied statistics. applied to eberly at penn state and college of science at purdue.
He was admitted RD to UP for Computer Science on 1/19. We were all certain that since he missed the EA deadline with his SRAR for PSU that he was going to be offered 2+2. At Purdue, Computer Science is his 1st and Artificial Intelligence 2nd for West Lafayette only, not Indianapolis.
Best of luck with wherever your son decides!!
thank you and back at you!! exciting times!
Any of the forum experts know the dynamic behind this huge financial goal?
Don’t want to see PSU end up like WVU.
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I think it suffices to say if you were not fully admitted to UP, they are not reviewing your app for honors. It’s already extremely limited for the accepted students.
That is incorrect. Schreyer admissions are totally different. Different process, reviewers, etc.
Certainly, they will look to see if you have been admitted to UP… but if you are a stellar candidate that they really want, schreyer admissions has the ability to contact Penn State admissions at least to ask if your status can be changed. That doesn’t mean they WILL, but it has happened in the past.
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It is also fair to remind the other poster, though, that all who apply to Shreyer prior to November 1 will be offered an interview. Having a Shreyer interview in and of itself is not indicative of much.
His/her GPA was quite low for both Penn State and Shreyer (3.3). The poster said that he/she attended a highly competitive/grade deflating school so that could mitigate the 3.3, but the reported SAT of 1410 would also be on the low end for Shreyer (though I’m not sure that they even take test scores into account). While I am sure this student is strong and academically curious, with compelling essays, and it is possible for a Shreyer decision to overturn the PSU decision, it is also important to be realistic about that possibility, especially given stats that would be very low for the honors college. Shreyer students must maintain a 3.4, so a high school GPA that is lower that that, even at a competitive high school, could be a red flag.
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There is a thread about this on Reddit right now. Speculations about eliminating a large percentage of floundering branch campuses.
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Would you be able to share the link on this issue?
Which campuses?
That I don’t know.
Lots of interesting PSU enrollment data here if you like numbers. Enrollment by state, by campus, etc. Some of the branches have seen enrollment drop significantly
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That’s eye opening. You wonder how they even find enough professors to teach at all those very small branch campuses.
Per the article: The locations in Western Pennsylvania include Penn State New Kensington in Upper Burrell, Penn State Greater Allegheny, on the border of McKeesport and White Oak, Penn State Beaver and Penn State Fayette, the Eberly campus, as well as Penn State Shenango.
I have an acquaintance who is a recently retired adjunct professor at a branch campus. He taught in the department where my son is accepted. He directly told me that if my son wants to study IST, go to main. Thats pretty telling from a former prof, and he was there for a long time.
The state of PA higher education is a complete mess. PSU has too many branches, Pitt has too many branches, there are too many duplicative PASSHE schools (the true PA state schools: West Chester, Indiana, Slippery Rock, etc.). They all receive some state funding and then essentially compete for students with a bad demographic trend under current. They tried to “merge” 6 of the state schools into 2 but I think that’s generally not worked out. If they truly consolidated and/or created some schools with specialties, they could be a much better economic deal for in state students. Instead, no politician has the stones to close any of these and they talk about getting more funding as a solution. The market has spoken with the branch campuses and the PASSHE schools losing a lot of student interest/demand. They will eventually get merged/closed but it will be a couple billion dollars from now.
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Pitt doesn’t have nearly the # of branch campuses as PSU and Pitt can’t fit any more students on their main campus. As it is, housing is overflowing into nearby Carlow Univ. and classes are double digit waitlisted… all the time. Pitt Johnstown and Greensburg could clearly merge. And I add Bradford and Titusville as well!
PSU could easily consolidate/close the several campuses with 300-500 students.
I imagine those campuses are just bleeding money. I don’t know if State College has the room for more housing and classroom capacity… but they have more land to build than Pitt.
Gotta love the Keystone State!
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How hard is direct admit smeal main campus?