<p>Hey I am an international admitted into Smeal. How is the business school in general lots of international students? And how are the profs? thx</p>
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Isn't it too early in the game since you just finished your first semester at PSU? Now I remember that you posted somewhere that you didn't like the campus because it was isolated and surrounded by cows, but why the hasty tranfer? And why didn't you apply to those schools in the first place? I always thought that applying for transfer as a freshman would be too much of a hassle since one might not be able to get rec's from professors(huge intro classes) and so forth.</p>
<p>Summary: I am bamboozled.
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<p>I applied to those schools in high school and i got rejected by virginia and waitlisted by michigan. Penn State was the better school amongst the others I got into, espeically for business. </p>
<p>Btw, I don't need to send recommendations :)</p>
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Hey I am an international admitted into Smeal. How is the business school in general lots of international students? And how are the profs? thx
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<p>I would say there are a fair share of international students, but if you compare the number of international students in other big ten universities like michigan, wisconsin, illinois, there are not many at penn state.</p>
<p>The professors i've had first semester have been quite good. Some have been average (my Management Info Sys teachers was always in a hurry to complete lectures, and the class was so damn boring). But my seminar and statistics teachers were top notch and always made the class interesting.</p>
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Are PSU's lectures anything like MIT's OCW courses? I can only understand most if not all of it, specifically the science/math courses.
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<p>To be honest, I don't know what MIT's OCW courses are like. :)</p>
<p>Mightynick, Why don't you need recommendations? Is it because those schools don't require it since you are transferring early with too few credits?</p>
<p>Anyways, I am surprised you weren't accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>Killer, I imagine the classes will be similar to those taped courses, perhaps with more people, though. Again, I don't know if the professors will teach in a similar fashion or if the classroom will look like the ones at MIT(several sliding boards/huge projectors)--I will only find that out once I am there.</p>
<p>Yeah, I just checked the website for Michigan and they don't appear to require any recommendations, just the regular items (3 essays,transcripts, etc). </p>
<p>Does anyone know if this is the case for most public universities as well?</p>
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Mightynick, Why don't you need recommendations? Is it because those schools don't require it since you are transferring early with too few credits?</p>
<p>Anyways, I am surprised you weren't accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>Killer, I imagine the classes will be similar to those taped courses, perhaps with more people, though. Again, I don't know if the professors will teach in a similar fashion or if the classroom will look like the ones at MIT(several sliding boards/huge projectors)--I will only find that out once I am there.
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<p>I think its because i'm Out of State for both schools. I did expect to get into Michigan, but I knew I had a good chance of being rejected from Virginia. Hope I get lucky this time!!! Fingers crossed!!</p>
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Does anyone know if this is the case for most public universities as well?
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<p>I think so. I called the Virginia admissions office and they said that for transfer students, recommendations are optional. Unless you're coming from a small private school where you know your teachers really well in your first semester, i wouldn't bother sending any recommendations. It's too much of a hassle, and if you're qualified you'll get in anyway.</p>
<p>Well, I wish you the best. You would need recs for schreyer however, which sucks when you are taking class with 300+ people. I was going to apply to Michigan as well but eventually crossed it out of my list since the tuition was so high for oos students (I pay full tuition as an international student). When all was said and done, the tuition(30K) plus room and board would come out to abou 40K and I probably wouldn't get in with my original 1260 SATs.</p>
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Well, I wish you the best. You would need recs for schreyer however, which sucks when you are taking class with 300+ people .I was going to apply to Michigan as well but eventually crossed it out of my list since the tuition was so high for oos students (I pay full tuition as an international student).
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<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I did talk to most of my professors during the semester by going to their office hours and its a good opportunity for them to know you as well. But the intereaction was no where near as much as in high school. </p>
<p>Michigan is pretty damn expensive for out of state/international. PSU costs slightly less but is very expensive nonetheless.</p>
<p>Are the classroms HIGHLY technological with sliding boards, huge projectors, and lots of equipment/props that the professor uses to teach? I want to know this specifically for chem/physics/engineering/aerospace courses. Does PSU have a lot of equipment to demonstrate projectile motions, pendulums, electricity & magnitism, etc. during lectures or is it just boring lectures where professors just talk on the board?</p>
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Are the classroms HIGHLY technological with sliding boards, huge projectors, and lots of equipment/props that the professor uses to teach? I want to know this specifically for chem/physics/engineering/aerospace courses. Does PSU have a lot of equipment to demonstrate projectile motions, pendulums, electricity & magnitism, etc. during lectures or is it just boring lectures where professors just talk on the board?
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<p>I'm not really sure since most engineering buildings are old. </p>
<p>However, the Business Building is quite new and we have the latest technology and equipment. We still have chalkboards though. :(</p>
<p>Umm, looking at the silver linning, hopefully the lack of technological add ons like projectors will call for an extra effort by the professor to convey the material? I wathced quite a few of those OCW vids, and my favorite parts were when the profs did experiments or brought samples to class, which just requires initiative on the prof's part really. Also, the projectors and stuff maybe more visual, but they can make the class especially boring if all the prof is going to do is go through a bunch of slides. Then again, our expectations might just have grown too high after watching those impressive MIT videos : )</p>
<p>ericq, would you know how science class are at psu?</p>
<p>To Current Engineering Student:</p>
<p>This is an email I sent/received back from PSU co-op office.</p>
<p>Gavin,</p>
<p>You must be enrolled in the College of Engineering in order to
participate in a co-op or internship. As long as you maintain
enrollment, you can participate.</p>
<p>Pam
<a href="mailto:coop@engr.psu.edu">coop@engr.psu.edu</a>
<a href="http://www.engr.psu.edu/coop%5B/url%5D">www.engr.psu.edu/coop</a></p>
<p>-----Original Message-----
From: <a href="mailto:coop@engr.psu.edu">coop@engr.psu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:coop@engr.psu.edu">coop@engr.psu.edu</a>]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:01 PM
To: Engineering Co-op Office
Subject: WWW - Contact Form Submit</p>
<p>Gavin has submitted your contact form. Here are the details: </p>
<p>Name: Gavin<br>
Organization: None<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:airelemental135@yahoo.com">airelemental135@yahoo.com</a><br>
Message: Hi. I want to know if I can continue doing co-op after
I get my bachelors degree while pursuing my masters?</p>
<p>I don't think their answer is very clear to me. Do you guys think I can continue alternating between semesters even when I pursue my masters in the same major at PSU grad school?</p>
<p>To all those going to attend PSU. DO NOT TAKE SUSAN QUICK!(Compsci 203)
If you like getting a stupid teacher that screws up your whole semester take her, but if you actually want to have a nice gpa, and not want to do the same assignments 3-4 times over(she loses your assignments and/or makes you resubmit them different ways), don't take her.</p>
<p>I took her class and went from a 3.9 expected gpa(2 weeks before finals) to a 3.34 thanks to her.</p>
<p>susan isnt teaching this semester.... i have AL hes the man</p>
<p>yeah dude...my friend had susan quick for comp sci last semester and he said she's the worst teacher ever.</p>
<p>she's bak to teaching cse 121 like normal ;)</p>
<p>Any opinion on which hall to pick? I'm in the business school and I'm thinking about choosing South Halls.</p>
<p>MightyNick -- As an interesting factoid, when we did our UCONN tour, the tour guide took us into a state of the art classroom, and pointed to an old fashioned chalkboard. The guide said UCONN was ripping out its white boards and going back to chalk, based on a study by its science students. They allegedly determined that chalk dust did less harm to laptop computers than the fumes from white board markers and cleaners.</p>
<p>A question for a current PSU Student -- does the library have a coffe shop in it? Is it open all night?</p>