<p>Whistle Pig, you constantly make ignorant comments on college confidential. You obviously have no facts to back up any of your biased comments. When did your opinion on prestige become the end all be all? Penn State University Park is a great school. I think that maybe you should go over to the Penn State discussion area and convince all the kids with 3.8s and great SAT scores that didn’t get in that they were all just flukes and that Penn State University Park is not actually that tough. I don’t care if you went here, there are people that slip through the cracks and get in that are not intelligent. As I continue to read your comments, I become more and more convinced that you were one of those people. Just because admissions were a lot easier when you were a student does not make that the case now. You most surely would not get accepted now. While many people do start at branch campuses, the fact that you started and took classes at branch campuses shows on your transcript and employers know what that means. There is a significant difference between the students that went to branch campuses and those that did not. While Minnesota is a good schoool, it is definitely a notch below Penn State. I think you probably are stuck in the whole mindset of when you were a student. Sorry sir, things have changed in the past 20 years. You might want to start catching up to what the rest of us already seem to know.</p>