Penn State does not actually look at whether you have rigor as much as your GPA first, which of course rigor helps becuase you can then have a GPA above 4.0 as my son did before he was accepted. SHe would be applying to Graphic Arts, and I already spoke with their department who feels she is a very strong candidate. SHe would have no hope in Smeal, Engineering, or PreVet or most of their Science programs. But in the art department she’s looking pretty good 
However we are undecided whether she should apply to Integrative Arts or directly to Graphic Arts. Graphic Arts only accepts about 80 students per year and then those are whittled down after the first year to as few as 12 depending on how many seniors they have graduating from the program! Integrative Arts accepts many more students, but she would never have the chance to be a full fledged PSU trained Graphic Artist which would open up doors anywhere she would want to go. She could take a few GD classes, and art classes and then they said they’d have her take some advertising courses and her Degree would say something like Integrative Arts with a Concentration in Advertising or even a Minor in advertising, which would open up a lot of doors for her but not quite in the same way as GD…hard decision there!