Penn State - University Park - Enrollment Controlled Major - Computer Science

bodangles
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:11:11 +0000

At least for my major (ChemE), there was a certain number of seats the department wanted to fill. If there were more applicants with 3.0s than the desired number of seats, those extra applicants would be accepted, and nobody without a 3.0 would get in. If there weren’t enough applicants with 3.0s, then the rest of the applicants would be looked at in GPA order.

The GPA requirement does guarantee you admission as long as you’ve met the other requirements (certain classes with a C or higher, etc.).

I believe my major usually errs on the side of having too many people, not too few. You could call the CS department and ask if they also use the process I described above and how it generally turns out.