What's a CS Safety?

reasonabledad
Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:58:11 +0000

MotherOfTwo ~ S has grades because we give him a very science and math intensive curriculum, with a lot of internet courses, EPGY, AP courses, and community college courses. Consequently he gets third party grades; they are just from about five sources per year and we (as the homeschooling parents) only “teach” an occassional subject ourselves, which we also grade. This is why he has so many AP scores (he’s one of the top five in the country in terms of AP scores last year…National AP Scholar after 10th grade). We use the AP tests to “validate” that he has mastered the material on his transcript, especially the stuff we taught him ourselves.

Does anyone know how PSU decides on admission? Is it a formula of some kind, or are they reading an application like Stanford is? I agree that PSU without the Honors college is a real safety, based on SAT scores.