To keep your acceptance you’ll need a C. But to ensure you’re not an Engineering drop out by by end of Fall semester, you need As in Precal (and HS Physics).
So, keep Precalcalculus and PRIORITIZE it over any other class or you won’t make it in Engineering next year.
GO see your teacher and ask for help + request a tutor.
Make it your goal to get an A. Over Xmas break, use Khan Academy to review and master everythig your class as studied since Fall.
i got an acceptance a couple weeks ago for the harrisburg campus. i’m waiting to hear back for schreyers and if accepted into schreyers would seriously consider penn state (it was a safety and not top of my list) however i would only really want to go to the university park campus, can i transfer campuses now through my acceptance portal or emailing admissions?
I’m not an engineering major. I’m a liberal arts major.
Was Harrisburg your first choice campus?
If UP was your first choice campus and you got Harrisburg instead, did you check summer start?
If you applied as UP first choice, then you need to change your application in some way for reconsideration - change to summer start, or a change of major (college).
If Harrisburg was first choice, then you will still have to ask for reconsideration.
I would email admissions. But they are on break until after the new year. Good luck.
I don’t have a weighted GPA lol
DS has an acceptance to college of Engineering, UP, summer start. Letter states - Intended Major - Computer Science.
Does it mean he has been admitted to CS Or does he still have to take the ETM courses and gain a 3.1 GPA before he is officially admitted to Comp Science.
If the above is true, what happens if he doesn’t have a 3.1 GPA.
Thanks
The entry to major requirements for Computer Science in the College of Engineering are below. As you can see you need to have 29-55 Penn State credits in order to apply to the major as well as having a C or higher in the below classes and an overall GPA of 3.1. If the GPA mark is missed, then students usually choose another major that allows for the GPA they have. NO ONE (except the few direct entry majors at Penn State) is in a major until after they complete entry to major classes at Penn State. Some have a higher GPA requirement than others (there are many majors with a 2.0 GPA requirement, for example). If the entry to major requirements are met, the student is in the major.
See below for requirements:
29-55 graded Penn State credits (excludes transfer and AP credits)
completed with a grade of C or better:
CMPSC 121 or CMPSC 131
CMPSC 122 or CMPSC 132
MATH 140 (Calculus and Analytical Geometry I)
MATH 141 (Calculus and Analytical Geometry II)
PHYS 211
earned a minimum cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 3.10
How do you know if you got directly admitted to the CS major?
You cannot get directly admitted to the CS major at Penn State. It’s not a direct entry major. I posted the entry to major requirements above that ALL students who want to be CS majors must meet before they are officially in the major. Until then, they are pre-major status.
How hard is it go through the ETM process and get unto CS major? Is there any info on how many get in every year?
I don’t think that statistic is available; I don’t know about it at least.
The ETM classes for each major pose a different level of difficulty. They wouldn’t have accepted an applicant to the pre-major status unless Penn State thought they could handle the work load. But of course, some students fall into the UP trap when they are up here with so much to do and so many new things, that they don’t put the work in. UP is a challenging environment academically.
CMPSCI 131 and 132 are beginning computer science classes but it depends on the professor for how difficult that will be (use rate my professor for that). Calc I and Calc II are notorious weed out classes…especially Calc II.
It’s a difficult major in a difficult college. If you don’t make it through the ETM classes, which are the foundation, you won’t make it through the major. A direct admit at another college may need you to KEEP a certain GPA to STAY in the major…Penn State has you get that GPA prior to getting in the major and then you just need to graduate (with a 2.0 at least for most, but not all, majors).
It’s difficult to say how many succeed, except to say that PLENTY do…the major is a popular one and many graduate from it. If you put in the work, you will be fine.
There is a reason why many of us on this board say that if you got accepted to summer or 2+2 for your major, it’s because PSU knows what they are doing. UP campus is no joke, but thousands navigate it successfully each year. Just go in with the mindset that you are going to work - and you’ll be ok.
Thank you for the detailed response jhpsu.
Much appreciated
SAT: 1420
GPA: 4.2 Weighted
Rank: School doesn’t rank
State Residency: VA
Applied date: Mid- October
Applied Early Action: Yes
Decision date: 12/1
Decision/College: Admitted/ College of Engineering
Campus applied to/Campus accepted to: University Park
(Legacy- grandparent, parent, sibling currently attending)
I am trying to review this thread- are most PSU decisions out? Or just for certain campuses?
Waiting to hear if my OOS daughter got in.
SAT 1550
w GPA 3.8
Same here! We haven’t heard (EA, submitted 11/1) and wondering why. Anyone have thoughts?
Were ALL materials in by 11/1? In order to be EA, all application materials have to be in.
Yes. Her porta said that her app was complete and being reviewed.
Portal*
Any new info on admission decisions for Penn state? Still nothing here although they promised 12/24.
I emailed my regional admissions officer because I had not yet gotten a decision. They explained that because I applied WITH test and my test scores were not received by November 1st, I was pushed into the next admission cycle. If I had applied with no test score and then switched to test score, it would have been okay. I could have also submitted a test score by nov 1 and then updated it sometime after nov 1, but because I said yes to considering my application with a score and they had no score by nov 1st, I was pushed back 