Admissions page is out of 4.0. According to admissions, asked this year
i just got an email!! hope they come out soon!!
^ those are numbers for the enrolled students. It stands to reason that the stats for the admitted students would be higher than those of enrolled students - top admits having more choices, they may use Penn State as their safety ans end up enrolling at Lehigh, Bryn Mawr or an Ivy 
The way a 3.5 is seen differs based on college: denial for Smeal, would depend on STEM APs for engineering, ok for AG…
In case this helps anyone, just received this update via email:
"STUDENT NAME will be receiving a decision from Penn State soon! The best place for STUDENT to check the decision status is through the MyPennState Account. Students who qualified for Early Action will be receiving their decisions by December 24, 2018. There are three types of decisions a student may receive from Penn State:
An offer to their starting campus or alternate-choice campus.
A deferral decision to the November priority review group (final decision by January 31).
A denial to their starting campus and alternate-choice campus.
Early Action is non-binding, providing students who have received an offer of admission until May 1, 2019, to accept the offer."
A large difference between the two sets of numbers are that the admissions page claims it is for admitted students. The CDS has data for enrolled students. That implies the enrolled are a substantially different demographic than the admitted, with the admitted having a high proportion of top students deciding to go elsewhere. This skews the data and I think they are the wrong numbers to look at. The original post I was discussing has stats within the middle 50% bounds of students that actually attend PSU UP. I stand by my assertion that PSU is a match school based upon those numbers.
@MYOS1634 Yep. I was writing my last post when you posted this. Using the admitted numbers is not a valid way to look at the data. The school is not yielding from the top admits at the same rate as others. Using the enrolled numbers is more valid.
BTW, my kid got into CS Engineering with an UWGPA of 3.52, including 10 Bs in a stack of math, science and engineering courses. Out of 287 applications from our HS, only 10 were rejected. Only two had higher than a 3.97. The other 275 admits were below the admissions page claim of 3.97 GPA at the 75% point. In other words, 99.2% of those admitted from our school had below a 3.97.
@MelioraScott are you in-state or OOS? and Congratulations to your kid!
@Mominmich OOS and thanks!
@MelioraScott - that is good news. My D is still waiting, we are OOS and waiting for Engineering!
My accepted D received a letter today from PSU about visiting campus of admissions. In the letter it says “…from over 75,000 applicants this year.”
@dogwood18 we just got the same email. Not sure its a good or a bad sign.
Do u know what time they come out each day?
@MelioraScott We are talking about admissions. Not enrollment. So a 3.55 is 25% for admitted students, of which the poster is trying to become. To gain admission, 75% of students admitted had a higher GPA than a 3.55. That also fits with what we see here year after year for admission. Generally, under a 3.4 is admitted to a commonwealth campus. The average for all enrolled students is a 3.58. I did not say the original poster would not get in…but they are bubble.
Congrats to your child for gaining admission!
Hi- my portal is down … sorta. When I log in it says my information isn’t currently available. This happening to anyone else?
We received the same, but nothing looks different in his portal.
@dogwood18 We received the same email, but no change to his portal.
Yup, us too ??@orbitally
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied 27,844
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied 28,270
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted 12,933
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted 15,300
All of this info and more are in the Penn State Common Data set for each enrolled class
Each college does one, that follows the same format so you can compare.
We received the email but also there is no change in portal. Is this a good or bad sign?