<p>It's March 26-28.
Is anyone going?</p>
<p>My D has been admitted to DUS. There is an accepted students event only for accepted DUS students on Mar. 27. She’s decided it is more important to meet other students considering DUS instead of the Achiever’s weekend. Frankly, I’m not a fan of the “pile onto a bus” with other students as if all URMs are poor and in need of transportation. I know they are doing it to try to improve representation of URMs, but I don’t like the idea. If white students don’t get all these bus rides, I don’t like the treating of URMs differently. </p>
<p>This may sound weird to some, but the whole visual image makes me think of school busing for integration back in the 60s and 70s. Load all the minorities onto buses and take them as a group to white schools. They arrive on campus and the (mostly) white students watch buses full of minorities unload. That whole visual makes them seem “different” right off the bat. If transportation really is an issue then why aren’t poor white kids who were accepted allowed to ride these buses from a half-dozen U.S. cities out to State College? </p>
<p>PSU is an outstanding university, and I will be a proud parent IF my D decides to enroll next Fall, but this bring in the minorities by bus stuff bothers me. I thought, as a country, we were past that. Oh well.</p>
<p>Wow you are completely wrong about this program…There actually are white kids who are on this. There is a predominant amount of minority kids in this because of the Club that runs this…SMART (Student Minority Advising and Recruitment Team). Sure this program is aimed at Minorities, there’s nothing wrong with that as Penn State does not even rep. Pennsylvania with regards to percentages of minorities. </p>
<p>I do agree that classes within the college system is completely another issue :P. </p>
<p>You arent even really accepted lol youre moreso just invited. And heaven forbid a few of the 30k white students see a crowd of 300-400 kids mostly composed of minorities.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, no. I guess my mail came too late for me to register on time >=(</p>
<p>CH121S: “You arent even really accepted lol youre moreso just invited. And heaven forbid a few of the 30k white students see a crowd of 300-400 kids mostly composed of minorities.”</p>
<p>Actually, you’re misinformed. My D has been accepted to Penn State. The information that came with the invitation said very explicitly that this is an invitation only for 150 ACCEPTED students. You must be thinking of the Fall program for 300 - 400 people who are invited but have yet to apply to PSU. The Fall program has the same name, and it could be run by the same people. My D was invited to that one too but declined. Obviously, declining didn’t hurt her application for admission.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that you are accepted into the achievers program, of course you have to be accepted to Penn State to come to this program otherwise it wouldnt be useless to a senior who wasn’t. When I participated in the program it was a bit bigger I think, and it was first come first serve to those invited. I still stand behind what I said. The program is very beneficial for helping those who aren’t sure about where they’re going, or those who want to become accustomed to this campus.</p>