Is the portal down for anyone else?
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Down for me
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Yes. Down for me also
Did anybody receive interview notifications for the PMM program?
no one from our school has received anything. wondering if the in state acceptances are in eastern pa. anyone from western pa received acceptance yet? to engineering?
It seems that most of the acceptances Iām reading about are for those who applied to engineering. Iāve seen a few other majors but the majority is engineering. It sounds like a stupid question, but do they do applications based on certain departments all at the same time?
Every college (ie. engineering vs Smeal
Business vs. Ag) follows their own process. And different colleges have different levels of competitiveness. Looks like engineering was out of the gate quickly with some acceptances, but other colleges are admitting also. Iāve seen all parts of the state as well as OOSā¦ just be patient - weāve all been there!
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Weāre OOS, and applied October 30. My son got the big envelope two days ago, and is admitted as a Poly Sci major. Heās thrilled!
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Is this thread university park only or covers all campuses? Does how soon you get the decision depend also on which campus you applied?
We are University Park
Does anyone know why people havenāt gotten decisions yet this week?
Because decisions are committed to be delivered by December 24th, at the earliest, based on application date, and many schools/majors are in the decision-making process. A small number of acceptances doesnāt mean everyone should expect one.
I donāt find it odd at all that tens of thousands of decisions arenāt out 17 days into a 53 day window.
I do think it is odd that not one person has said they received an decision this week. Taking a quick look at last years forum there were decisions every week. I would expect decisions to trickle out every week to be completed hopefully by December 24th.
I donāt find it surprising. On 11/1, they received their EA submissions. They total them together and find the easy admits - the high stats kids. Push admit on those and get them out of the way.
Now comes the hard part - the middle 50%.
They have to figure out where the line is in that group. And TO makes it more complex with potentially less data points. So they are probably reading more essays (hoping you did the optional one if you are in this category), scrutinizing HS transcripts (if you want to go Engineering, have you had Calc?), and figuring out who in that big group is a yes, who is a deferral, who is summer admit (yes or no?), and who is pushed to a commonwealth campus.
So right now they are in the bulk of reviewing all those middle 50%.
There may be high stats kids who havenāt heard yet eitherā¦ but the above analysis is my prediction of what is happening.
And remember - CC is buy a super small subset of what is going on. I know lots of kids from my kidās HS who have heard - but they havenāt posted here.
Other than the seven posts in the Decision thread that said students were accepted, in the five days this week?
(compared to the four accepted in the previous five days).
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None said they were accepted after 11/13. Meaning none from this week. I get itās a small sample and CC wonāt have all decisions. I was just saying, given what happened at penn last Friday, maybe they held off sending decisions this week.
I donāt fully agree that they are only reaching out to high stats kids. My son has higher stats than his friend who got in. My son is still waiting.
Just curious, as my daughter yesterday received the same email, did your student reach out to Admissions afterwards? She isnāt sure what to do! Again, hoping it is a good sign, though! Not certain if she marked interested in Honors on her Common App, but we are are about 99% sure she didnāt (as we reviewed the stats for admissions to Honors and thought it was not attainable).
Did they both apply to the same major?