Penn State Architecture

College Majors Architecture Major
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<p>Do I have a chance to get into Penn States Architecture program???</p>

<p>Senior at very competitive HS
GPA-3.51
WGPA-3.9
SAT-1810-Math(750)Reading(620)Writing(560)
ACT-28(retook aiming for a 30)</p>

<p>Transcript=5 AP- US History(3)European History(4)Physics(3)Calc AB(spring)Statistics (spring) 3 College engineering courses through RIT that I have A's in 10 honors courses through high school career</p>

<p>EC= 3 year Varsity Lacrosse(captain),3 year Varsity Football, 2 year Varsity Wrestling, Eagle Scout, Certified Lifeguard, Ski instructor, Chess club, Ski Club, Sacristan and Alter Server at church, and National Honor Society</p>

<p>My biggest worry is that I am out of state will that affect me alot? Also I know PSU puts alot of important into gpa and mine unweighted isn’t that strong. I love architecture and can’t imagine doing anything else I have sat in on numerous meetings with an architect and I take a drafting class this year and it is great so far. I never did make a portfolio in High school because I never had time in my schedule to fit art classes. This narrows my options for college down to a select few. Penn state is my dream school and want to get into the program so bad but I hear they only have 70 kids per class. Doesn’t that mean they only accept 140 applicants? Does anyone know how many students apply to architecture? If anyone could give me any information on the acceptance rate and whether I have a chance I would much appreciate it.</p>

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<p>My son applied to Penn St two years ago and got accepted. Is your unweighted out of 4? My son’s unweighted was 3.93 out of 4 and his ACT was 31. At that time, the acceptance rate was about 10% (1200 applicants and 120 accepted). We are OOS. Penn St was his second choice but he did not get any university financial aid (only government loans).</p>

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<p>I’m not sure how much assurance I can give you on admissions to the PSU Arch program, but it’s certainly worth trying for. I hope that if you are at all interested that you have already applied or are very close to having a complete application. You MUST have a complete application in by Nov 30th to be considered at all. Being out of state is no disadvantage for admissions to the arch program (or to any program at PSU, as far as I can tell). This year’s (fall 2010 admssions) group of admittees to Arch come from all over the USA and from several foreign countries as well. I do not know the actual breakdown of the class, but 83 kids matriculated - PSU overshot a bit in their acceptances, since they do want a class of 65. (At this point about 15 kids have already dropped out of the program, so…)</p>

<p>Here is the latest PSU admissions bubble chart which should give you some indication of how you stand competitively for admissions to PSU in general:
<a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Best of luck to you in all your applications!!</p>

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<p>Sorry SAT is a 1930 I put in my old score. Both GPAs are out of 4</p>

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<p>if penn state is on the fence about accepting you, they will ask for you to send a portfolio. make sure you have it ready!</p>