ACT: N.A.
SAT: 1470
GPA: 3.7
Rank: N.A.
Extra:
State Residency: Connecticut
Ethnicity: hispanic
Gender: female
Applied date: Nov. 1, 2018
Applied Early Action?: yes
Decision date: Dec. 11, 2018
Decision/College: Engineering
Campus: Univ. Park
My son was accepted yesterday morning. The day before it said that his account was being updated, and then I received an email early yesterday morning that he would have a decision soon. We logged in and it was there.
Brother is a Sophomore at UP and loves it.
ACT: 35
SAT: Math 2 770, Physics 710
GPA: 3.3
Rank: n/a
Extra: APs, Honors, Multivariable Calculus, Soccer x 3 yrs, Ultimate Frisbee x 4 yrs (Captain), out of state Snowboarding Team x 1 yr, Student Council, Robotics Team, Capstone Project, Voice, Theater.
State Residency: CT
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Applied date: 10/27
Applied Early Action?: Yes
Decision date: 12/15
Decision/College: School of Engineering
Campus: UP
ACT: 30
SAT: na
GPA: 3.55
Rank:
Extra: varsity sport/leadership roles/2 honors/4 Ap
State Residency:NJ
Ethnicity:caucasian
Gender: female
Applied date: 10/27
Applied Early Action?: no
Decision date: 12/15
Decision/College: liberal arts
Campus: UP
We applied in Oct and are still waiting to hear. Congratulations to all.
Is the portal down for anyone else?
yes
yes here too
Does the portal go down when a wave of decisions come out??
YES
I’ve never seen the portal go completely down like this. Even ahead of a wave of decisions. Also, it’s rare that decisions come out on Mondays - its usually Tuesdays through Saturdays. But I hope I am wrong.
Typically, ahead of a wave of decisions, the lucky ones can access their portals, but they get an error message saying, “Sorry, we are unable to access your information, check back later.”
Can someone call em and ask what’s up lol
I found the Penn State Information Technology Page and it is reporting an outage for many applications and sites throughout the University Started at 1:05pm and they are attempting to fix asap according to the report. Doesn’t seem to have anything to do with admission updates. http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-5342
ACT: 25
SAT: n/a
GPA: 3.06
Rank: doesn’t rank
Extra: equestrian, tennis, lots of EC’s related to major, lots of volunteer hours, student ambassador, stage manager for theater production, and others
State Residency: PA
Ethnicity: 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Caucasian
Gender: female
Applied date: mid/end-September
Applied Early Action?: yes, but did not qualify because of pre-med track
Decision date: 12/15/18
Decision/College: Accepted for summer start (I forgot I selected that option haha), College of Agricultural Sciences (Animal Science, pre-vet)
Campus: UP
Accepted
ACT:
SAT: 1190
GPA: 4.0
Rank:
Extra:
State Residency: NJ
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Applied date: 11-1-2018
Applied Early Action?: EA
Decision date: 12-14-2018
Decision/College: Smeal
Campus: University Park (Main Campus)
Congratulations!! Just curious, is your 4.0 GPA weighted or unweighted?
It’s official… my daughter just accepted her invite to Penn State
GPA: 3.7
SAT: 1250
State: NJ
Applied Early Action
Decision: 12/14/2018
College/Major: Smeal/Accounting
Campus: 2+2 Altoona then University Park
ACT: 30
SAT: n/a
GPA: 3.1
Rank: doesn’t rank
Extra: highly involved in sports, a few volunteer organizations, work, (good extras but not great)
State Residency: CT
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Applied date: 10/10/18
Applied Early Action?: Yes
Decision date: 12/18/18
Decision/College: Accepted for Summer - (applied for Fall but got Summer which was expected) DUS
Campus: UP
*low GPA is primarily due to a hard freshman year. PSU and many other Universities tend to accept students with much lower GPA’s from our HS than what is published. I am guessing this is because of how we scale, the rigor, the relationship with PSU and that it is a highly nationally/state ranked school. As said many times, it’s difficult to compare GPA’s from different HS. So, lower stat students should not lose hope - be sure to look closely at your HS and Naviance as well.
*D17 was accepted to PSU with an ACT 25 and a 3.3 GPA - summer session. She is a sophomore and is doing very well socially and academically at PSU and loves it.
This site has been incredibly helpful. There are many important nuances at PSU that is not really known without the experience on this forum. Thank you to all the veteran posters!
From what I have read in this forum, when you receive a status update message, it means an admissions decision should be on your page when you log back in. The site has gone down a couple of times in the last 24 hours due to server problems, according to the PSU IT Website so the error probably has nothing to do with your status change. Just coincidence. Hopefully when it comes back up, you will have an admissions answer. Good luck. We are waiting for the admission decision too!
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SAT: 1530 Superscore
GPA: 4.0 Weighted
Rank: NA
Extra:
State Residency: OOS
Ethnicity: Asian Indian
Gender: Male
Applied date: September
Applied Early Action?: Yes
Decision date: December early
Decision/College: Accepted, College of Engineering CS
Campus:university Park