<p>I was wondering what do you think my chances for these two Penn State branch campuses are. I have already accepted that I will most likely not get into UP, but Penn State is my dream school and I am willing to attend a branch campus for two years.</p>
<p>Out of state student
GPA: 3.01 UW / 3.34 W (freshman and sophomore year slacker)
ACT: 27
EC: Church softball for 7 years, church choir for 4 years, volunteering at the library leading a story time group for children, and working as a waitress for about 1 year.
I've been to Ecuador twice for mission work. Also I will help run the food bank at my church occasionally. </p>
<p>I have not taken many honors / AP courses, but by the end of junior year I will have taken 3 honors courses and my senior year I am going to take 4 APs and 2 honors.
Almost everything from freshman/sophomore year is "CP Adv" </p>
<p>I have heard of people with straight 2.0's getting into a Penn State branch campus, but I'm still pretty nervous, you know?</p>
<p>Hi, I’m just guessing but I think you have a shot. ACT looks decent. GPA, I’m guessing is a little low. EC’s should help but I’m thinking PSU may be super numbers based. And I think you’re saying your upper classman GPA is higher; it’s the fresh/soph years that pulled your GPA down. If so, I’d say that helps too and if you can point it out in your app, do so. what is your upperclassman GPA? Don’t go too crazy with the AP classes. You don’t want that to backfire and get low grades in soem of them. Better to pace yourself and keep pulling the GPA up. Plus I don’t think your AP classes matter as much for the PSU branch schools(as far as getting admitted). If you want the AP classes to get a head start on college and save money, that’s a different story. If for some reason, you don’t get in, go to a CC, focus really hard, and get excellent grades. That should allow you to transfer to PSU’s main campus too if u have to go that route and most Pa comm colleges are going to have transfer agreements with PSU and be experts on what courses are most likely to transfer. Good luck!!</p>
<p>Hello again. I completely missed you were an out of state student first time around. Sorry. that will complicate admissions, esp for the main campus, and you’re thinking in the right direction. Admittedly, I don’t know how big of a role EC’s play in out of state admissions. If they do, yours look good and I think would be decent for any PSU campus. I still recommend pulling the GPA up and don’t overwhelm yourself with AP classes to the point it could affect your GPA, not to mention your overall enjoyment of your senior year, which is great year of high school!!! Also, consider location and perhaps other PSU branches. My guess is that Schuykill is in Pottsville, which altough OK, would not be a great place to go to college. Altoona is also in the middle of the state but is closer to the main campus. I want to Altoona and SC are about an hour apart. Not terribly sure but it’s got to be the branch campus closest to State College. And I still recommend you look at CC options in your home state and transfer to PSU that way. In fact, I highly reccomend it. PSU tuition on any campus is salty for in state kids and saltier for out of state kids. make sure you run net price calculators on all the schools to get a cost estimate and the reason I’m thinking a CC makes a lot of sense for you is that it will keep your costs down and help you achieve your ultimate goal of attending PSU’s main campus.</p>