Just for a reference to everyone my friend has a 4.4 GPA and is ranked 10/365 at our school. She also scored a 1930 on her SATs and applied at the final deadline for undecided and was weight listed. I’m pretty sure she didn’t check off summer session though.
ACCEPTED to College of Engineering for Civil Engineering
Stats:
SAT: 2080 superscore
ACT: 31 composite
SAT IIs: didnt take
GPA: 4.3 on a 5 scale
Rank: 52 of 480 (INSANELY competitive public school)
Other stats: HS ranked top 10 in state
Subjective:
Essays: essay about a leadership camp i attended
Teacher Recs: from AP Euro Teacher and English Teacher
Counselor Rec:nope
Hook (if any): idk
Location/Person:
State or Country: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Other Factors:
2 championship varsity sports (swimming and track)
church involvement
NHS and Rotary and LINK crew
I applied to both Penn State and Pitt over Thanksgiving break, both got back to me WITHIN A WEEK. idk if thats normal
Hey guys… I got accepted in PSU and I have been taking a look at the dorms… I’m mostly preferring Pollock and East… Do any of these have any pros or cons that I need to take into consideration? Also are SLOs good?.. Do they cost the same? as I am an international, I have to look at the financial factor too. And besides I want to have a great college experience. please advice… Thanks 
Reasons why overqualified kids get rejected:
1.) Your stats are so good that they believe you are using the school as a backup and want to only offer admission to people who will enroll
2.) You applied too late after the November 30th deadline
3.) You demonstrated too much financial need (Penn state is broke and can’t give much to their students)
4.) Something else about your application was not appealing enough (recommendations, extracurricular, rigor of classes, essay, etc)
@screennamepls I got accepted into the college of liberal arts for Econ but I wanted to switch to the smeal college of business (finance). I emailed penn state admissions asking if i could switch and so they re-evaluated my application for business and I got in. I’m not sure if its too late but if it is you could possibly switch majors during your first year as econ and finance would have common courses.
@Dahsksuebxmap I would disagree with #1 and #3 and to a degree, #4. The biggest reason that a very qualified applicant would be denied is that the applicant applied too late after the priority deadline and the seats for that major are filled. Penn State does not consider level of interest (#1), financial need (#3) or letters of recommendation (#4) in their application decisions.
Anyone know when Penn State will send their financial information (such as need based aid and general cost to attend)?
Financial aid is up today. Check elion account.
Saw my financial aid today. let’s just say i will DEFINITELY not be attending haha. They barely gave me any money. I’m going to go ahead and decline my offer
T^^ They never do
Accepted to University Park (Computer Engineering)
SAT: 1890
UW GPA: 3.78
Great Essays and 3 amazing letters of Recs
Many leadership positions and volunteer work
Took pre-calc classes
USA dual citizen living in Brazil
Very surprised I got in.
ACCEPTED to Smeal College of Business
Stats:
SAT: 1770
ACT: didnt take
SAT IIs: didnt take
GPA: 9.6 CGPA in class 10th( India)
Subjective:
Essays: It was a good essay, but they don’t really care about it
Teacher Recs: Got recs, but penn state didnt ask for it
Location/Person:
State or Country:INdia
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Brown
Gender: Male
Other Factors:
Horse rider
various leadership programs and social work
ACCEPTED THE OFFER ASAP
Accepted into College of Engineering (for summer 2015 
)
SAT: 2080 (720 R 690 M)
GPA: 3.12 (UW) / 3.43 (W)
Rank: School does not rank, however in the top 20%
Other stats: 5 AP’s, all Honors/AP classes, significant uptrend in GPA junior year
Essay: average
Teacher Recs: didn’t send
Counselor Recs: good
Hook:
State: CT
School type: Public, 380 in my class
Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Gender: Male
Applied December 17th, heard back first week of February
@iucollege Congrats! I am guessing you aren’t that thrilled with the summer session - but you should be really happy. Many students with your stats were outright rejected and assigned to branch campuses, so even a summer start is really good. The summer program at PSU is really good as well. My D has virtually the same stats as you and was also put in summer for DUS.
Accepted: Eberly College of Science (University Park, Fall 2015)
Stats:
ACT: 21 10 Writing
GPA: 3.17 (UW)/ 3.81(W)
Rank: School doesn’t do ranking
Other Stats: 4 AP’s All Honors/AP classes
Essay: Didn’t write one 
Teacher Recs: Had one from my counselor
Hook:
Location/Person:
State or Country: Maryland
School Type:Public
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Other Factors:
Applied March 2 and heard back March 24
Accepted: College of Engineering (University Park, Fall 2015)
Major: Computer Science
Stats:
SAT: 1900(Super-score)
SAT II: 800 (Maths-2) 770(Chemistry)
TOEFL: 104/120
Indian Class XII CBSE: 95%+ (Predicted) ~~ 4 GPA
Rank: 1/120
Essay: Pretty Good
Location:
Country: India
School Type:Private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Other Factors:
Applied Jan 13 and heard back March 27. (Regular Decision)
A lot EC’s and Outstanding Academic Achievements.
Best of Luck to Others.
Does anyone know how hard it is to get accepted off the wait list to UP? I was wait-listed and can’t find the wait list statistics on college board.
So I got into PSU Engineering (intended major Comp Sci) back in December… I considered it a safety school, but I pretty much hoping to get into my other choices (UCLA, UC Berkeley, and many others). My SAT scores, GPA, extra curriculars are all very good and in line with what they had to be, but with an unfortunate stroke of luck, I got into no other schools. As a PA resident, Penn State is obviously not very difficult to get into and bc of that, I never considered myself going to such a school. I have visited and liked the campus as well as the program. I just want to know from an OOS student, if PSU has the school has a positive reputation as living in state, the reputation is not as high as UC Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, and UVA are.
I get a lot of " oh wow’s" when I say that my daughter from Massachusetts is majoring in engineering at Penn State. It has a better rep here then in PA
@WannaBeCeo Penn State, specifically, Penn State engineering has a VERY high reputation academically everywhere. No, it’s not as high as those other schools nationally - but you didn’t get into those. Penn State is a top 25 Engineering school. Also, Penn State does not take location into consideration in their applications. It is just as easy or difficult for an OOS person to get in as it is for someone from State College.