<p>thank you so much, momofboston and imanicollegehelp. That really helped me a lot!</p>
<p>My pleasure, you have (we all have) reason to be concerned. The average adcom spends something like a minute and a half looking over an application.</p>
<p>I think the most significant thing you can take from the above is that the adcom assigned to the area should know the school and grading system very well. That’s why the bubble chart needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It seems like the max GPA in the bubble chart is a 4.4. That more or less alligns with the max GPA at my kid’s school (we get an additional .5 for honors and AP courses, but in 9th grade you have to take some non-honors courses so that max GPA is around a 4.4). Some schools have a max GPA even over a 5.0 so I assume PSU recalculates GPAs to fit them within the bubble chart. I know a number of schools that recalculate GPAs.</p>
<p>I got the coming days status today, Accounting major.</p>
<p>JimG: Congratulations in advance. Would you mind sharing your stats.</p>
<p>Yeah, my weighted GPA is out of 4. I’m hoping, though, that the weighted GPA is how it works on the bubble chart if only because that puts me in the blue bubble (albeit barely :P)</p>
<p>Anyone know how “competitive” their education programs are to get into?</p>
<p>Just got the coming days status today as well for Biology.</p>
<p><em>Fingers Crossed</em></p>
<p>Good luck! Still haven’t gotten mine yet… lol</p>
<p>Does anyone know the average day that Penn State applicants receive their acceptance letters? Do most people find out in late January? The deadline is Jan 31st, but I would think that they would send out a little before the deadline. And has anyone been accepted to Smeal for business management at UP? I have not seen anyone posting about that.</p>
<p>Based on looking at last year’s thread, it appears to be January 20/21 for a good number of people.</p>
<p>^ Well I hope this year is a little earlier and I get an acceptance some time this when I get my decision lol.</p>
<p>Undergrad admissions site down for anyone?</p>
<p>down for me too…I hope they are busy changing all of our statuses!</p>
<p>Haha same, but dont they usually change it overnight?</p>
<p>My D got into Smeal. She applied in early Oct. and heard right before Thanksgiving. Is anyone having trouble today getting onto the undergrad link at PS?</p>
<p>It’s down for me to. I hope you’re right helimomter, and they’re changing our statuses haha.</p>
<p>down for me as wellllll so strange!
ps. this thread is actually ridiculously long and i still laugh at the fact that i started it…nbd.</p>
<p>yeah, wonder why it’s down… oh well. just makes me even more anxious to see if it’s up and our statuses are changed in the morning! lol</p>
<p>Jim when did you apply? My status hasnt changed for almost 3 months and I applied undecided at smeal</p>
<p>I want to hear back so badd. My status just changed to “decision will be posted here in the coming days”, i applied in octooooberrr.
Anyone know how difficult it is to get into their graphic design program?
unweighted gpa is 3.49 and weighted is 3.8
sats 1650
and i’m pretty confident with my poster.</p>
<p>ps: gladd to know i’m not the only one obsessively checking my status online. :)</p>