Your daughter certainly put in her time with the wait. I’m so glad it finally came this week for her and the family!
We’ve been waiting not quite as long but certainly for several months.
Sometimes students love the first school that loves you back. The longer it takes to hear back when you’re open to options, especially in an app cycle where visiting was cancelled, is tough.
It’s still only 12/17 in what has been the longest year everrrrr.
What you say makes sense. But I would not characterize as “given up” (wrong choice of words in my prior post maybe) but more like “moved on”.
Problem is ( and there is no right or wrong here) when kids see their peers get decisions and they know for a fact that their peers/friends applied more or less the same time and see acceptances it kind of feels like a downer for them. I understand that Penn is a very big university and must have received many many applications but I feel (again this is my personal opinion) that there should have been a certain logic to the release of acceptances. Maybe there is a logic but the kids and we as Parents just don’t see it and most certainly Penn does not need to give any explanations to anyone.
Lol, mine also applied to Wisconsin. Sounds like we have two business-minded kids!
@kahuja70 Agree
@skkm0960 And Big 10 fans!
I hear you - My daughter was accepted to 6 schools before PSU admitted her yesterday. She considered every single one. All of the other offers came with Merit, except for Penn State. But of course, all the others were out of state and some schools give merit to entice out of state students to come. PSU does not do this so it alwasy surprises me how many OOS students end up going to PSU as full pay. I LOVE PENN STATE, but I’m not sure I’d pay OOS costs if I had cheaper, just as good, options.
I totally get the psychology behind the acceptances. Unfortunately, PSU is a huge school so they can afford to do whatever they want because they always have enough students to fill the class.
@Kahuja70 I agree wholeheartedly that I wish PSU released decisions in a more rolling order. First in, first out. But I think because of the size of the school and the many variations to people’s applications, I believe the decisions would actually be prolonged for many if they did it this way. In the way they do it now, the buckets get filled and keep moving. Some buckets are bigger than others so it takes longer to get through them. And since they are all sorted differently to a number of different buckets, doing it truly first in, first out, would be impossible I think. If they did it in a straight line - evaluate as they come in - I think more students would be denied because the picture of who’s in what major wouldn’t be as clear.
I’m just guessing based on research and previous application cycles of course.
It’s an unbelievably frustrating process. I understand that.
See here our flagship state school is super competitive to get accepted to in state. So if he gets in the money decision comes into play. If he doesn’t, then we are paying OOS no matter what, so the money isn’t as big of a factor in general. He didn’t apply to any other of our state schools because they just weren’t want he wanted (big D1 schools with robust sports programs, good business schools, etc).
All I can say is that at least at the high school in our town, in NJ kids want to go anywhere but Rutgers if their parents will let them so they pay $$$$$ to go to PSU or Delaware or fly out to the Midwest to Indiana, Wisconsin and even Michigan - if they get accepted.
College 15 minutes away for some just isn’t away enough…again for some. Plenty love Rutgers and it is an excellent school. Many still feel it’s pricey even for in state, it is.
Yes, even here in PA, Penn State is very expensive. In fact a few years ago, the list of the most expensive public schools in the COUNTRY had PSU and Pitt as #1 and #2. Penn State isn’t cheap for in state. Especially when you compare in state costs at other schools. Part of this is because Penn State isn’t a state school in the traditional sense of a ‘state school’. Meaning, PSU doesn’t get it’s funding from the state. It’s sort of a cross between public and private that way. A traditional state school gets something like 90% of it’s funding from the sate. Penn State gets somewhere between 5-10% when I last looked. Hence, high tuition even for in state students.
I agree. Rutgers is not cheap. It was cheaper for my older daughter to go out of state.
Interesting, I’ve never paid attention to how much OOS schools cost in state. Maryland College Park costs like 24,000ish in state (tuition + room and board)
Maryland is also interesting because they didn’t unite all of the state schools under the University of Maryland System umbrella until the late 1980s. So before that Towson/UMBC/Salisbury/UMCP/Frostburg/UMES/UMaB/etc were their own separate schools. Once they did that and CP became a sort of flagship if you will it got much harder to get into and that benefitted the other schools in state as well.
For those fortunate enough to afford it, it’s an exciting prospect.
Is this TO button from blue to grey 100% legit? Has everyone who got an acceptance had the change in color? I feel so silly over analyzing but hey you never know. Plus I’m exhausted from staying up till midnight last night for nothing!! 
Unfortunately many kids these days are so used to instant gratification & results. They can’t deal with having to wait for anything.
I believe if you want test scores used, it’s blue. If you don’t it’s grey. When the decision is made sometimes it disappears completely.
Not for us. We didn’t submit test scores and it’s always been blue. Only SRAR is grey
i think for some people their button turned grey right before they got their acceptance, but for some people it didn’t. don’t read too much into it, our decisions will come out soon!!!
That seems to be true here as well… Kids here want to go anywhere else except UCONN which is a really good university!!!
The grayed out SRAR means nothing. My D has had that since at least Dec 4th. I have a screenshot from that date. I put a screenshot on my phone on that date just in case as people have been commenting that changes mean something so I could go back and look.