<p>I got accepted to Penn State!! I was ecstatic when I saw the big CONGRATULATIONS on the envelope, but when I read the letter, the word BEAVER stuck out, and my heart sank. I applied to University Park, but was referred to Beaver.</p>
<p>In the leter, it says "Due to limitations on the size of the freshman class at Univ Park and the exceptionally high caliber of recent applicants, it is inevitable that many good students who demonstrate the potential for academic success will be referred to other Penn State campuses".</p>
<p>What I want to know is...
1. Is there any way I can be "waitlisted" for Univ Park?
2. If not, how soon can I transfer?
3. Can I call and tell them I want to do the summer program? (I applied)</p>
<p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>^^^I got the same exact thing and for Beaver too lol </p>
<p>but you can't be waitlisted for Univ Park and I think you have to go for 2 years at Beaver to transfer.</p>
<p>Awww, I don't want to go to Penn State Beaver though...this sucks. And there's absolutely no way out of this?</p>
<p>If you have your first semester grades, and you did well. Or you have another achievement in or out of school, then call them up and let them know. Call up the admissions office and say that you've done this this and this and these are your grades at midyears. If you have good news, they might change their minds.</p>
<p>Oh, I get it - so in a way, I was rejected from University Park (not because it was "full"), and was referred to Beaver, my second choice. Am I correct?</p>
<p>well i am sure they can add one more person-if their stats are good enough. it is "full" but not exactly. obviously not nearly half the students have enrolled and there is no saying how many will.... I mean i might or i might not and there are a ton of kids like me. So if I don't enroll it doesn't mean they have a slot open that they didn't expect to if i did.</p>
<p>Alright the way college admissions are done is by mathematic formulas. They figure out how many spots they have left etc, and this year's applicant pool has been tough. Meaning you probably weren't as good as the average, and the spots were filled and they wanted to save the rest for better applicants at UP (sorry if its harsh). </p>
<p>It is best for you if you had good first semester results so you got bumped up in the pool, and you can then call them up and say that you did so well and that you really want to go there.</p>
<p>Think about it this way too, satellite campus' will give you a better individualized focus. This way you'll get better at working too, and when you do go to UP after two years, you'll be well on your way.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks, and I appreciate everyone's input. But do you think I can transfer as early as after one semester?</p>
<p>Not 100% sure. Call em and ask!</p>
<p>No way in one semester. Maybe in a year, if you have a major that isn't very popular at UP. And to save you the trouble, you aren't going to convince admissions of anything. Thousands upon thousands of students in your position have died valiantly trying. If they wanted to see your mid-year grades before they deferred you, they would have asked. Most people forget that when they see your app, they don't see you, they see numbers. Whether you really want to go or are just vaguely interested is irrelevant to them.</p>
<p>See, I'm in schreyer if I go to PSU and I'm not used to being seen as a number. Even though my numbers are decent, I probably would hate to go to a program who saw me as just that.</p>
<p>I'm just talking about admissions... all that they have is an application. The only way that an admissions officer can get a sense of who someone is, in a personal manner, is through the personal statement.</p>
<p>Schreyer had three of them from me as well as a multitude of phone calls.</p>
<p>Well Schreyer is more exclusive, therefore, they can afford to get more personal. When they deal with as many applicants as they do for University Park, they don't really care how badly a single rejected person wanted to go to their school.</p>
<p>Exactly. I understand, I know the system also. I'm not too big a fan of it though. Yet it does have some merit. Applicants have to back up their wishes to go to a school with hard work and concrete grades/scores.</p>