Accepted: College of Engineering (BME)
Got accepted in mid. January
Stats:
SAT: 1760 (Cr: 640, M: 620, W: 480)
SAT IIs:
GPA: NW: 3.7/4.0 W: 4.25
Rank: 20/159
Other stats: PLTW Biomedical Sciences at Technical School -College Credit, 4 AP classes
Subjective:
Essays: Good
Teacher Recs: Really Good
Counselor Rec: Good
Hook (if any): Internship at National Cancer Institute and Grandfather, Aunt, Uncle, Cousins are all alumni and out of state
Location/Person: Brunswick
State or Country: Maryland
School Type: Small public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Female
Other Factors: Varsity Softball, Lots of EC’s, took community college class
General Comments: So excited to go to PSU. My family are big Penn State people. This is my first choice!!
@kdurham I don’t think this is the formal definition about Penn State’s rolling decision definition, but judging from what we’ve read here it’s this: “Admissions comes in each morning and rolls a bunch of applications around the floor before choosing a few to evaluate.” No, seriously, it’s hard to determine (see the thread: “Rolling admission and this terrible waiting!”). First off, beating the November 30 deadline is (was) important. Some of the very high stats and the very low stats were given notice quickly. Other than that, ‘rolling admissions’ is a misnomer. Almost everyone who applied prior to November 30 has received a response, but not in the ‘rolling admissions’ timeframe. Perhaps they treat post-Nov. 30 applications on a more traditional ‘rolling admissions.’ Good luck. Stay patient. And get @jlhpsu to root for you (she’s the lucky charm, and initiator, of this thread)
Accepted to College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (Meteorology)
ACT: 28
SAT: N/A
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.3 W
Rank: N/A
Other stats: Took 4 AP classes and 6 Honors classes.
Essays: Not horrible, but not super impressive.
Teacher Recs: N/A
Counselor Rec: N/A
State or Country: Illinios
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
@KR1997 What do you mean ‘wait listed’? Penn State doesn’t wait list. Do you mean you got placed at a branch campus?
Here is the common data set that gives admission stats from last year and last year they wait listed zero students. So if you did get wait listed, that’s completely new!
Hi @jlhpsu…yes they do. My daughter’s BFF got wait-listed because she applied after Nov 30. She was eventually taken off the WL but she already committed to Syracuse. Seen it with my own eyes
That’s interesting @Twinmom2014 ! I always assumed that because the common data set said that they don’t wait list, that meant that they didn’t. HAHAHA…of course we know that things aren’t always as they seem though!
ACCEPTED - College of Engineering // Aerospace Engineering
Stats:
SAT: 2050 (690 CR/680 M/ 680 W)
SAT IIs: 720 Math II C, 720 Physics, 730 Spanish w/out Listening
GPA: 38/42 (IB Student)
Rank: n/a
Other stats:
Subjective:
Essays: PSU personal statement was pretty thin, in the sense that I covered a lot of things but none too deeply. IDK if that was a contributing factor
Teacher Recs: n/a
Counselor Rec: n/a
Hook (if any): Female in Engineering? Idk
Location/Person:
State or Country: US Citizen in Bangalore, India
School Type: International private
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: F
Other Factors: super excited, PSU is a great place to be for Aero…they have a NASA center on Campus which is cool because I do want to eventually specialize in Astronautics. If anyone could help me with regards to picking a dorm I’d be most grateful. Thanks!!
ACCEPTED - Communications / Business
Stats:
SAT: 2010 (600 CR/750 M/660 W with 9 essay)
SAT IIs: None
ACT: 32 (34 M/32 E/31 S/ 31 S with 10 essay)
GPA: 3.2 UW, 3.5 W (had upward trend from a 1.5 in freshman-- junior/senior year all 4.0s including my community college classes of the 9 i took all A’s)
Awards:
Academic Decathlon
Main Team Varsity Member
Bronze Medal Mathematics
Gold Medal Speech / Impromptu @ LA County Division 1
Bronze Medal Mathematics @ LA County Division 1
5th Place Team Overall @ LA County Division 1
Piano
–2010 Southern Youth Music Festival 3rd Place Piano Duet
-2011 Southern Youth Music Festival 1st Place Piano Singles
-2013 Southern Youth Music Festival 2nd Place Piano Singles
-2011 Winner, Southern California Jr. Bach Festival
-2012 Winner, Southern California Jr. Bach Festival
-2014 Winner, Southern California Jr. Bach Festival
-2013 Lakewood Cerritos Branch Certificate of Merit Honors Recital
-2011 Honorable Mention, MTAC Lakewood/Cerritos Branch Winter Solo Festival
-2012 Honorable Mention, MTAC Lakewood/Cerritos Branch Winter Solo Festival
-2013 MTAC Lakewood/Cerritos Branch Winter Solo Festival Honorable Mention
-Finished Panel Level (basically you can become a legit music teacher) in 4 years-- takes average person 13 years to finish.
Work
-Lifeguard at Private Gym
-Room Captain for Piano Events
Life:
Was an idiot back in high school doing bad stuff that wasn’t making me look like a good person so to say. Was homeless for quite a while due to parent’s divorce-- moved all over the place-- wanted to give up and just run off-- btu i stayed and persevered so i can show my parents im not as useless as they thought i was lol.
Hey everyone!
Accepted: College of Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
SAT: 2060 (M-690 CR-750 W-620)
GPA Unweighted : 4.0
ECs:
4 year varsity player
1st team all star
about 4 school clubs
volunteer coaching
Extra stuff:
Been involved with the school all my life
female in engineering ( supposedly it helps)
Good personal statement
from PA
Congrats to everyone else that got in! I’m really excited about the engineering program and the school in general.
Does anyone know anything about the housing? I’m trying to make decisions about that.
I was accepted into The College of Communications but not the main campus. I’ve seen a lot of people discussing calling to change to DUS in order to be put in the main campus. How do I go about doing this and if I do, would I lose my acceptance to a branch campus?
@rayxx24 Definitely call admissions and ask to be reconsidered either for DUS, or for Communications over the summer. Call Monday. Usually admissions counselors are available after 1PM, but be prepared to wait on hold for a while.
Yes, a friend of my son’s heard back last week. He applied very, very late. He got into Altoona (second choice). I know he wants to be pre-med, but not sure what he actually applied for. He’s very excited. OOS.
@kelors hey! I’m an aero as well…i was also in the housing situation for a while. i’d like to see if i can help you out with your questions in any way i can!
