<p>sneakers, I am wondering the same thing. My d just got in too but I wonder since they guarantee housing to freshman if there is any rush getting the deposit in. Anyone?</p>
<p>You shouldn't wait very long. I would say have it in by March. The longer you wait the better chance your s/d has of not getting their priority SLO/location or even a reg. dorm room at that. I know alot of people who submitted too late and had to deal with 6+ people in a converted dorm study lounge made into supplemental housing.</p>
<p>Is it mandatory to go to the "accepted student campus visits"?</p>
<p>i don't think so, KJS.
and plainsman, there's a girl in my homeroom who's 20 already and another kid who's 19, turning 20 soon. lots of seniors are 18 already or have been 18 for a while. it's not a big deal to me maturity-wise at all, it just sucks that i won't be able to..legallypurchasealcohol until i'm 21 and a senior. D:</p>
<p>cwryan, thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Faytal: Jeezuz! 19 and 20 year olds in high school? Holy!!!! Back in the 70s, I was a college freshman at 17.</p>
<p>^ I'm going to be a freshman at 17, too.</p>
<p>I got in for fall semester 09'! Woot! Woot!</p>
<p>Took long enough.</p>
<p>Cryan...what do you mean about making a mistake when visiting East and leaning on the elevator wall?</p>
<p>hmm, lets just say that alot of drunk freshmen mistaken the elevator as a bathroom. </p>
<p>Yeah. Don't touch the walls.</p>
<p>haha...psufan82...havent you ever been there before??? its like taboo!</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! :)</p>
<p>It was a surprise. I logged in to MyPennState to see what else I have to hand in. I haven't handed my international student supplement yet (that has my personal statement) and I was so surprised to see "Congratulations!"</p>
<p>"...it just sucks that i won't be able to..legallypurchasealcohol until i'm 21 and a senior." - Faytal</p>
<p>Faytal: Why are you so anxious to drink? Man, it's way overrated. I went through four years of college without drinking a drop of alcohol of any kind. I had a lot of fun. and I didn't need booze to get laid. Leave it to idiots to get drunk. Stay dry, young fella.</p>
<p>^^^ Plainsman is a smart one, I like him already ^^^^^</p>
<p>When you boooze, you looose =)</p>
<p>I must respectfully disagree with Plainsman and mcvm92. College life is marked by drinking socially and sometimes otherwise. Experiencing the dangerous affects of drinking in college is part of growing up, and better it occur in college where mistakes do not have consequences compared to those in the real world. Let's face it, EVERYONE, with the exception of a select few, drinks in college, in some fashion or another. I myself do NOT drink, and I am not planning to be counted among those who do, but Penn State is for all purposes a party school, and drinking runs wild at parties. I am not saying that college students should binge drink or drink dangerously, but I do believe healthy experimentation and learning how one's body responds to alchohal can prove very beneficial in the long run. By the time the age of 21 is reached, most are in their senior year of college or have graduated all together, and if they have not experienced drinking of any kind, they will be completely unprepared for adult social situations requiring the safe, effective, and limited consumption of alchohal. Frankly, whether people like it or not, it is a part of life.</p>
<p>Jarad - you are contradicting yourself when you say you do not drink. Your argument states it is better to experiment so you know how your body responds - why doesn't this include you?</p>
<p>Drinking != getting laid.
Booze is for the weak.</p>
<p>JaradW: Young man, you are misguided. To say "experiencing the dangerous effects of drinking in college is part of growing up" is horribly misguided. By that logic, you could say experiencing the dangerous effects of driving 120 miles per hour is part of growing up." With all due respect, that is part of "dumbing up" not "growing up." In some ways, you are a walking contradiction. You extol the virtues of "healthy experimentation" but then admit that you do not drink. </p>
<p>And what makes you think young people need to prepare themselves for drinking in "adult social situations?" I'm an adult. I work in corporate America. I travel all over the country and find myself in all sorts of adult social situations, but I've never felt out of place by refusing alcohol. I think your idea of adulthood is a bit skewed, maybe from popular culture---TV, movies, so-called "reality shows" which are, in truth, tightly scripted, etc. I'm just saying. </p>
<p>It's true that an awful lot of people drink. It's also true that an awful lot of adults cheat on their taxes and cheat on their spouses, but that's not everybody, and it certainly doesn't pre-ordain that you have to be one of them. The real world just isn't like what you're imagining. Not anymore. </p>
<p>I was 26, the first time I drank. I couldn't believe that this "experience" - feeling woozy and light-headed, slurring your speech, and wanting to throw up in the morning with a pounding headache - was something people in college thought was attractive, and worse, "necessary." It's just stupid. </p>
<p>Stay strong. Encourage other young people to follow YOUR example by not drinking.</p>
<p>This thread got off topic.</p>
<p>The debate on college drinking should be moved to a new thread.</p>
<p>agreed...debates on drinking and smoking aren't the purpose of these threads (this one in particular). everyone has, and is entitled to, his or her own opinions. so just agree to disagree.</p>