Can I get into Penn State UP?

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<p>Hi, I was just wondering if I could get into PSU University park. </p>

<p>GPA UW: 3.75 (NGA 90.03)
GPA W: 3.84 (NGA 92.33)
SATs: 1200 M + CR (I am retaking them in june)
I am guessing my junior year NGA will come out to around a 93-94 (weighted). </p>

<p>I am currently a junior and am taking 1 AP class and 3 honors this year (all core classes are honors but one). Freshman year I only took one honors, and sophomore year I took half honors half CP. Next year I am taking 4 APs (Stats, pysch, span, eng) and 1 honors (chem) for senior year. I go to a large PA public HS with a relatively good reputation. </p>

<p>I have/will have participated in:
1 year field hockey
2 years lax
2 years varsity track
4 years winter track</p>

<p>I am in National Honor Society at my school and in yearbook club. This year i served in student government as secretary. I also am in a few other smaller clubs. I participated in powderpuff. I do not have that many volunteer hours. I am also multi-racial if that helps. </p>

<p>My major would ideally be nutritional/food science, but I would go in undecided if needed to get into University park.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Penn State uses all 3 parts of the SAT, what is your SAT combined?</p>

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<p>It is a 1790.</p>

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<p>the only thing I see that could hold you back would be lack of course rigor. This year I got into UP with a 1730 SAT, 3.79 UW and 4.6W GPA. Penn State openly says that GPA is 2/3 of their decisions, and they don’t rank high schools by prestige or reputation. They also told me that senior year grades/classes have little to no bearing on their decisions. </p>

<p>I think you should get in, but if for some reason you don’t, the lack of a harder schedule would probably be why. If you’re really adamant on going to PSU, be sure to also have them consider you for the summer session if they can’t offer you fall admission. You’re pretty much guaranteed to get into summer session, which flows into fall, with those stats.</p>

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<p>1200 SAT, 3.7 UW GPA…You are 99% in for food science.</p>

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<p>etuck and xtreme power-Thanks so much to both of you. Anyone else have opinions?</p>

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<p>Etuck, Where did you get the information that PSU tracks course rigor? I hadn’t heard that before.</p>

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<p>You should be fine for UP.</p>

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<p>I mean, its just college admissions…not just psu…they all look to see if you took honors/ap classes and how many you took</p>

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<p>No, they don’t.</p>

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<p>[Admission</a> Statistics: Penn State University Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/apply/statistics/index.cfm]Admission”>Admission Statistics - Undergraduate Admissions)</p>

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<p>The Penn State application has a single question that asks how many Honors or AP level courses the student will complete in high school by end of the senior year. It’s a drop down menu of numbers ranging up to 20. I don’t know how they use that information, but I suspect they must, otherwise they wouldn’t ask.</p>

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<p>mtgd123 - make sure you submit the optional essay and an activities list. I think a complete application is important.</p>

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<p>If they don’t then I’ve been lied to for many years by many, many different people.</p>

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<p>They matter to most colleges, they have virtually no impact on PSU admissions.</p>

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<p>you’re in, 3.75 UW for almost all of the majors is suitable for admission to PSU main.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure PSU mainly just looks at GPA and SAT and then ECs, etc if the first 2 aren’t in the middle range. I would say you are definitely in!</p>

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<p>“Penn State openly says that GPA is 2/3 of their decisions, and they don’t rank high schools by prestige or reputation.”</p>

<p>I do believe Penn State UPark takes into consideration a school’s difficulty/prestige when it comes to GPA based on my school’s Naviance data.</p>