@amomoffour you mean early action? I dont think there is early decision
@amomoffour - whew! Just double checked by daughterâs acceptance and it is University Park - that would be a tough one to think it was and it wasnât.
@hunchojack yes early action, sorry.
@amomoffour can you clarify what you mean? Are you saying that everyone will get decisions the 1st-2nd week of december?
@hunchojack I think she is referring from last year to this year. Last year, if you applied by the priority deadline (Nov 30th?) , you were guaranteed to hear by Jan. 31st. High stats applicants in some colleges (DUS, Communications, whatever) would hear early, but even some high stats applicants did not hear until Jan. 31st. Last year, the SRAR was new, so that threw a complicating factor into the process.
This year, the process is totally different - the EA deadline of Nov. 1st are guaranteed to hear by Dec. 24th, there is also the normal priority deadline of Nov. 30th, and oh yeah, theyâve added the common app this year.
The month early is the Jan. 31st - Dec. 24th comparison.
Makes it hard to know dates from year to year because they keep changing the processâŠ
There is also a chance some of us can get moved into the regular decision round even if we applied early action. Hopefully a majority of our decisions will come out in December though. ?
@collegegirl2023 The admission rep did not mention that, she said first two weeks in December as they are closed the 3rd. Hoping you all hear soon!
Yes, we will hear an early action decision by December deadline
But @collegegirl2023 is correct, one of the three decisions is âdeferred to regular decisionâ
So we early action applicants may still have to wait until January 31 to find out accepted or declined
Kind of disappointing to realize though hoping we get lucky and get an actual decision
Not just an answer even though that is technically what was promised
I donât think people will be deferred if they have stats within the published range.
@citymama9 What is the âpublished rangeâ? Or where can I find it. Thank you!
Google âPenn State Common Data Setâ. Look at the data for 2017-2018.
The Common data set has loads of info about admissions, enrollment, etc.
You can do this for almost any college.
@Off2College PSU has Common Data Sets (CDSs) for all campuses that include admissions info. Hereâs the most recent one for UP:
https://budget.psu.edu/CDS/Campus.aspx?AY=20172018&Location=UP&displayNewTuition=y
Great. Thank you both!
In that case, decisions will probably start coming out again next week. (Iâve noticed no decisions this week due to Thanksgiving break.) Penn State hasnât indicated what factors would cause someone from Early Action to be moved to the Regular Decision round. Assuming what @citymama9 said is correct, then those of us within the published range should hear soon. It may be possible that people re-evaluated for Summer are moved to the Regular Decision round. Of course this is all just speculation so we will wait and see.
@off2co11ege , Penn State lists this on their admissions site:
https://admissions.psu.edu/apply/statistics/
The middle 50% have a GPA between 3.55 and 3.97. Accepted students below 3.55 tend to be recruited athletes, local students of university employees, the occasional student with a special talent or a student whose GPA took a hit due to unusual circumstances. Doesnât mean someone wonât get accepted to UP with a lower GPA, but itâs very unlikely. If you are applying to one of the more competitive majors (Smeal business, engineering, nursing, and even Eberly to some extent), you need to be in the higher end of the spectrum. Hope this helps. Good luck.
@off2co11ege Go to the Penn State website. Go to Admissions and they break it down for you based on the campus.
Thanks @InfiniteWaves for posting the PSU common data set. Was curious if you knew how PSU calculates the GPA since it says they use a 4.0 scale? Does that mean unweighted? I read somewhere that PSU calculates their own GPA. Our school has a weighted GPA for honors and AP classesIt seems unfair to do a straight unweight GPA for kids that took more challenges classes. .Any idea?
âC11. Percentage of all enrolled, degree-seeking, first-time first-year (freshman) ,students who had high school grade-point averages within each of the following ranges (using 4.0 scale). Report information only for those students from whom you collected high school GPA.â
@ek1116 Since Penn State publishes their middle 50% based on the 4.0 scale, it is believed that the middle 50% is unweighted GPA. That is not at all to say that the rigor does not count. It does, a lot. But since some schools weight very heavily and others very sparingly and some GPA scales are out of 5.0 or 6.0, and some schools have an A starting at 90% and other schools (like ours) that have an A starting at 95%, the only way to have an even playing field across the board is for Penn State to convert to their own GPA scale and then evaluate based on that.
If your school weighting is difficult, then that will benefit you, if itâs very lenient weighting, it may not. A few years ago there was a girl here with a 4.0 GPA who was denied. She appealed and it turned out that her schoolâs weighting scale was ridiculously easy so that when converted to Penn Stateâs scale, she was no longer competitive.
The GPA you see on the website and the common data set is usually believed to be an already converted number. However, since none of us actually work in admissions, itâs impossible to tell for sure.
@jlhpsu
does your school have 90% as a B? Or is it an A-?
With high school cumulative unweighted gpa, is an A- at 90% equal to an A at 95% to an A+ at 99%?
Is it all an A for the 4.0 unweighted ?
is a cumulative unweighted gpa of 4.0 same for anyone?
And then the different weights applied for the weighted is where differences per high school exist?
Anyone know , Is penn states weight scale available anywhere?
Also @jlhpsu , the girl with the 4.0 example you gave that wasnât admitted, was that unweighted 4.0?
Thanks
@jlhpsu at your school if a student has a 90% in each class, does that student still have an unweighted 4.0?
And then penn state wouldnât see that as an unweighted 4.0? It would be below 4?
Or is it only in the weighted gpa where own state applies its own scale?