I did!!
ACT: 33
SAT: 1400
GPA: 3.77 uw, 4.26 w
Rank: 10/298
Extra: 12 APs, AP scholar w/distinction, Historian of NHS, Secretary of SWE, Secretary of Best Buddies, Secretary/VP of FBLA, 200+ hours volunteering at hospital, swim coach, and a lot more leadership&cultural activities
State Residency: PA
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Applied date: 9/26
Applied Early Action?: yes
Decision date: hopefully soon
Decision/College: Eberly, Biotech (I also applied early for Schreyer)
Campus: UP
@pastalover similar to my sonâŠstill waiting for Eberly/Schreyer will be in the spring. Crazy similar to my son, 200+ hours at hospital in health care shadowing exploration program, leadership/12 APs/#10 in class. AP w/dist., VP of Math honor, Best Buddies, PA also. He applied 9/18 but scores didnât arrive until early October. Schreyer done by Nov. Wishing you both luck, Iâm checking everyday! My other son was bio/Schreyer now in med school. Itâs a great program.
Congrats @ziveli513 !
Anyone elseâs portal not working?
@InfiniteWaves thank you!
Mine was working this morning but now itâs down
Ours is down also
do decisions come out on weekends?
@tommylacroix Right now, they can come out on Saturdays. When you get closer to the decision deadlines, the decisions can show up 7 days a week.
I just read above that Penn State wants as close to 20 honors and AP classes. What if your HS doesnât offer that many honors classes? My daughter took all the honors classes that were offered, and there werenât that many. She has a total of 6 AP classes. Her schedule has been rigorous, but it sounds like she doesnât have a chance. Then again, according to Naviance a lot of kids get in from her HS, and they canât more honors than her. Are school also doesnât have IB, and I donât know anyone who does dual enrollment.
@citymama9 Penn State absolutely takes into consideration what your school offers. Someone in an area where the school has few honors or AP options will not be penalized for that. They will look at what that student took in relation to what was offered. The other posts about this are in a perfect world at the perfect highschool with lots of options.
Yes context is taken into account. If your high school offers 6 APs and 6 honors classes for instance, the expectation would be tailored for that.
But if it offers 18 honors classes and 22 APs and your kid doesnât have a rigor number in the 15-20 range then itâs different.
IB =6 Jr year, 6 Sr year automatically + myp or honors or pre IB.
They know Bucks county isnât Bald Eagle :).
Thanks!!! Our school doesnât have many honors classes, but they do offer more AP classes than what she took. Her schedule only allowed for those that she took. It will be interesting to see how it pans out. As I mentioned in another post, last year 49 kids from her OOS HS applied and 31 were accepted. I have no idea how many AP classes everyone took, but my guess is that my D falls in the typical range of # of APs. Of course those who apply and get into the Ivies probably take a lot more.
@amomoffour ahh! my ultimate goal is med school, and thatâs funny we have such similar stats! thank you, and I also wish your son luck, maybe weâll be friends!!
If you want Med school
- donât major in biology - Biological Anthropology or Immunology or BioBehavioral Health will help you stand out a little on the job market and thus are likely to have a better ROI.
- keep debt to a minimum (âŹ3500-5,500 per year)
- perhaps start summer session if you want to hit the ground running.
- keep in mind the freshman sequence in bio and chem is weedout and devastating: start chem and bio separately.
@myos1634 i have 2 kids premed, my
Bio major is in med school now, high school AP Chem and bio prepared them well, but youâre right either way itâs brutal. And not âpremedâ Major but they did do bio with honors.
Does Penn State go through their apps by major? It seems as though people with majors at the beginning of the alphabet have received their decisions (e.g. Biology).
@s9841210, definitely not alpha order. We tend to see very high stat kids accepted earlier, but other high stat kids will also hear later. Weâve seen acceptances across the spectrum of majors.
@s9841210 Actually thereâs been less Biology than anything else