Jan 31
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Hello! My daughter was accepted to communication sciences and disorders at University Park in early November (she applied in early September).
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I’m not too positive at this point getting in since so many already got responses. Thanks for the response.
A lot of people are still awaiting a decision. I think a lot will come out this week, especially Thursday and Friday due to the trends I’ve seen in the past discussions.
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So anxious waiting over here, too!
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Many recent decisions have been a mix of summer, 2+2, UP and a variety of majors. Read all the posts, no decision yet is not a no.
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I know ppl who last year got accepted to UP on 12/18. Hang in there.
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Many many many many many varying levels of applicants, including strong stats applicants still waiting and it looks like a major Smeal drop has yet to happen.
Really does not appear that the major big wave has splashed over but it’s coming. 
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My son was accepted to his second choice campus Altoona Cybersecurity Analytics & Operations major 2+2. We are OOS so preference would be to start at UP so thinking to request he be reconsidered for a less competitive major or DUS. Any suggestions on how to proceed? He is really undecided on what he wants to study so another major he was looking at was Data Sciences in Eberly. Not sure how competitive that major is.
what are his stats?
I wouldn’t be too pessimistic at this point. From reading about it, it really seems like there are lots of decisions to still be sent out and that the order is random. And remember, this forum is only a very small percentage of people who applied and even smaller of people who are responding or posting updates. Best of luck!
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GPA 3.95W, 3.5UW, Did not send test score.
Data Science requires much more math than Cybersecurity Analytics so that may not be less competitive depending on his math/science preparation in HS.
To be admitted to the college of IST you need at least pre-calc in HS I think (or maybe it’s just Trig - not sure). My daughter also applied to the college of IST. She has a 3.85W but she will have taken college calc II (Dual enrollment at PSU New Ken) by the time she gets to UP campus -so hopefully that helps her!
He can also select summer as an option.
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He did not select summer option.
I don’t really know much about the data science major and how competitive it is. DUS gets more competitive each year so maybe wait until more DUS decisions come out for EA applicants and see if the accepted students stats compare to your student. If you can afford summer I would ask for reconsideration saying that you can do summer as well.
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If you didn’t check the summer option and can afford it, I would call and ask if they could regonsider you/your child for Cybersecurity/summer option.
How many honors classes? Precalculus ? Any ap math ot science/cs?
Anyone else notice the update to the Financial Aid section of the applicant portal? Lists my D’s FAFSA as received and states she’ll be notified of eligibility as soon as February. Guessing it’s not an indicator of acceptance since Penn State usually doesn’t flat out deny applicants?
Yup changed here too. Still waiting on a decision though
My fafsa still says technical issue.
I’m taking that as a bad sign 
Ours too. But it says it will not affect our financial award, so to me that means that none of this means anything related to admissions. We are checking directly now on FAFSA on our account, as all of her other schools have successfully received it.