I don’t know if this will calm nerves, but 98 students from our OOS public school applied to Penn State. Naviance shows that as of today only 7 have been accepted. Naviance updates daily. In prior years, about 55% of the applicants were accepted. Which means that there are still many, many students waiting to hear back. So, while it’s hard to wait, no news isn’t necessarily bad news. (As a side note, nearly double the students applied to Penn State from our school this year than past years. If this huge uptick in applications is happening at high schools across the country, Penn State admissions must be slammed.)
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A clarification that nobody gets “deferred” to summer. You are admitted for summer, perhaps it wasn’t your first choice, but that isn’t a deferral.
Deferral is the official status of " we ran out of time to get you a decision by the stated deadline but we are working on it".
Waitlist – and there isn’t always one — is “we got to you and would probably want to offer you something but other people are in line ahead of you, so we have to see if there is space and what the rest of the line looks like”
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We just checked and D got accepted to the College of Nursing in UP!
In fact, the TO button has disappeared about 10 days ago, but it was not decided until yesterday.
For most people, whether they got accepted to the UP or the Regional Campus, they seemed to know the results as soon as the TO button disappeared.
So we were too much worried about direct rejection and almost gave up.
But checking today, it was decided on the 15th!
Perhaps we were on the waiting list, after the decision was made by many ED schools, I guess the waiting list began to be released.
Anyway, We are so happy!
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Congratulations to your daughter! Would you mind sharing her stats if you’re comfortable?
Thank you. I’ve already shared it in the decision thread.
Looking back at this admission process, I think the more important thing is “Fit” rather than the students’ grades.
If we only looked at her grades, my daughter had little chance.
As an example, my D couldn’t get admitted to the University of Pittsburgh’s Main Campus and got admitted as one of the local campuses. (Of course, with a very good Merit scholarship.) Later, I found out that there are only about two international students a year at Nursing, which Enrolls the University of Pittsburgh Main Campus. In other words, my daughter’s grades made it impossible to get it.
I guess that Penn State is probably expected to have more international students. I think that’s why she had the opportunity.
Also, she demonstrated how much she wants to go the Penn state in many ways including writing almost 10 essays for the Honor College. Because we already heard the rejection from the University of Pittsburgh at that time.
It was a very tough time for her to write that many essays for Penn State.
Also, she applied for an interview at the Honors college because we were thinking that it is the way to demonstrate how she seriously thinks about the school even though her stats are not that high for the Honors College.
Now all the effort paid off to her. We are so happy!
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I am glad she’s so excited about the opportunity, that is great! Congrats again.
Applied EA.
DS got in summer start. No email yet. Portal was updated today.
Out of state NJ.
Comp science - Univ Park.
However, no mention of cost of attendance / aid / scholarships.
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Congrats on getting accepted to PSU Nursing! That’s a difficult task for sure. But it was on her application alone and whatever she supplied admissions. The Honors College and admissions do not “talk” to each other and admissions would not have seen her Honors College essays.
That’s why people are confused when they get an invite to apply to the honors college even though they haven’t received a decision. They think that means they were accepted. It does not.
Honors College and Admissions are completely separate. She got in on the merit of her application alone!
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My D applied EA to the Arts and Architecture school for digital arts and media design. Has not heard back. Did you hear back for architecture yet?
Does Naviance at some schools get automatically updated? Our school depends on the students. And I know D22 hasn’t updated anything.
nothing yet.
Hey guys! I got accepted on Monday for Computer Engineering at University Park (Summer Option). I’m happy that I got in with these stats!
3.3 UW GPA
Test Optional
Out of State (NY)
I think my essays and extracirriculars really boosted me.
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I also only took 2 APs unrelated just this year. AP Enviornmental and AP Psychology.
Some colleges, and I think Penn State is one of them, have a separate online system that allows high school counselors to see the application status of their students. The counselor can check daily and then input new acceptances into the high school’s Naviance system.
At our school, the high school counselor controls the scattergram on Naviance. The student can update their status as accepted in their personal Naviance account but it won’t be reflected on the scattergram. Only the counselor can input the acceptance on the scattergram. (I have no clue how this works. All I know is the counselor controls everything.) And, for schools with that separate online tracking system, our counselor has been updating Naviance nearly daily. It seems to be mostly large public universities.
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My D’s TO button disappeared around 7:00 so we are staying up to find out. College of Arts and architecture-Digital Arts and Media Design. We are all nervous and excited. Best of luck to all!
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My D’s TO button also disappeared. Good luck.
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I just got accepted to Penn State UP for fall, after reconsideration as a DUS major. They said it would take 4-6 weeks after I talked to an admissions counselor on Wednesday, but I am so thankful to not have had to wait that long.
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Good news I hope??? My D fell asleep so I don’t know hers. Lol
My son got accepted to college of engineering, computer science at Penn State university park. His TO disappeared few hours back.
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My daughter was accepted. Does anyone know when we may get notified of any aid? How long after acceptance?
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