Has financial aid come out for everyone?
At the admitted student event last week, the financial advisor announced that financial aid offers would go out this week
Got the FA today. We are in-state. Surprised to see a 5K College of Eng Scholarship. No email about this scholarship, though DS25 wrote 5 additional essays (250 words each) specifically for CoE. They clearly mentioned this is only for this academic year. Waitlisted for Schreyer. Getting in Schreyer would put PSU on topā¦ letās see.
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No aid. Think weāre starting to move more toward VT.
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He got in -UP campus no summer start. Just heard yesterday.
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UP, Fall start, Data Science? 
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Yes 
Eberly College of Science (Statistical Modeling option of data science)
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My son officially accepted and paid his deposit today! Grateful for this community these past few months I have learned so much! Heāll be doing summer start with LEAP.
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Grow PA grant for Pennsylvania residents - anyone applying? We are full pay and it appears to be a non-income based grant up to 5K a year for PA residents (up to 4yrs) youāre obligated to work in PA for each year you receive the grant or the grant converts to a loan. Thoughts? Good, bad, ugly? DD applied and I figured we could turn it down if we arenāt comfortable with the terms but I was excited about the prospect.
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Anyone headed to admitted students day tomorrow?
Has anyone had their childās major changed after acceptance? I know in previous years this was a thing at NSO. My child was told that has completely changed and she cannot discuss switching major/college until after she completes 12 credits in the major she was accepted in. Iām just a bit nervous this is going to be a big struggle to change when we thought it would be simple.
Frankly it always seemed kinda strange you could change at NSO after all the hullabaloo for reconsideration.
Thatās why I always provided the best overlap of courses to take for the major the student was admitted to AND the one they originally wanted, assuming this would make more sense/was safer.
I think your daughter wanted UP/Fall start, originally wanted HHD or BBH, switched to Sociology - is that correct?
(I can show a 1st semester schedule with overlap for both to make it easy to switch.)
Yes. I guess I read all the posts about people changing at nso (I get your point about it being strange)so when she emailed and was told no, she got nervous and then I got nervous,lol. I just hope it will not be a big issue after one semester to switch. She is sociology and will more than likely want to switch to kinesiology.
A very versatile first semester schedule that would serve her for Sociology as well as Kinesiology (and a couple other majors such as Psychology and other HHD majors)
English 15 or 30H
Stats 200
Psych 100
Biology 161-162 (Anatomy& Physiology with lab)
Soc 1, 3, or 5
thank you so much!
This is great advice.
Google ākinesiology Penn state recommended academic planā and there will be a semester by semester recommended plan. Do this also for sociology and find the overlaps. But @MYOS1634 has done that for you ā”Ģ
Note: for Kines, there are different tracts. There is pre-PT school, gym teacher, and athletic training, so make sure you are following the correct one.
(Dm me if you have qās about Kines. I can speak to it).
Honestly, as long as the student has taken calculus in high school I could see that schedule of classes allowing for a switch to almost any college, except maybe Engineering. First semester was calc, physics, chem, and chem labā¦that would be a hard switch to make.
But those are all classs even engineering majors could use.
Curious to get any insights around taking Calc at Penn State. My daughter is DUS with the intent to get into Smeal majoring in Marketing and was a summer admit. Iāve heard Calculus can be a weed out course and quite difficult. Daughter only made it to Honors Precalc in high school but has an A in it and she pretty much got mostly As in her math classes throughout HS. Just wondering if it is that difficult where we should consider having her take at a local community college next summer to make her path a little easier.
If she will be taking Math 110, what about taking it during the summer?
Math 110 is going to be a bit easier than Math 140, but itās still calculus. It requires effort on the part of the student and Iām assuming itās 4 credits like 140 is.
I have thoughts about taking āharderā classes at a community collegeā¦are you enrolled at Penn State or not? If so, do the work if you want the diploma. If you want easy just enroll at the community college.
My oldest is currently enrolled at a competing Big Ten and thereās a notorious weed out calc class there that students actively avoid by going to the local community college. My kid sucked it up and earned the B- with pride. No different than the less than stellar grades I got in some classes at PSU as an engineering major.
Sorry if that comes off a bit harsh, I just feel strongly about not looking for the easy way out when facing hard classes.