My older daughter is in Honors at Pitt and it has been huge for the priority registration advantage (although they changed the policy recently). The many essays and selectivity for Schreyer make competing the application less appealing.
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Wow my twins applied to exact same. One for IST Data Science got accepted yesterday to Up Instate. Other than Smeal is says In review. Please do update me if Smeal Business decision comes. Thanks
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Sorry, I was wondering about PSU acceptances.
While D24 was thrilled to get āthe buttonsā, I think she found it a bit underwhelming when looking back. Pitt delays in email, video, mail get longer as time goes on.
Iām wondering if Penn State acceptances have started going out by mail. Weāre going to Pitt Decision Day in late November and it would be great to have a PSU response by then.
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My daughter received her portal acceptance 11/14 and her acceptance in the mail 11/16. We are OOS in NY.
I believe it was around October 12
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@Parent42 Not sure how to DM you, can you message me and I will reply? My daughter noticed the Penn State acceptance in her portal yesterday and last night found a big envelope in the mail with acceptance letter, poster, stickers, etc.
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Anyone know if they post decisions on the portal over the weekends?
I know some schools do but didnāt know about Penn State.
Last 2 days I saw in portal the following message: your application has been updated.Please check back soon for status update.But after an hour it went back to under review message.Anybody get like this?
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Looks like DUS hasnāt released decisions yetā¦any truth to this?
I personally havenāt seen any. My kid is waiting for DUS
my kidās portal still says āyour application materials are being verifiedā. Anyone else have that?
Penn State does not ask for a back up major on their application - so you either get what you applied for, or you are denied UP and offered a commonwealth campus. They DO, however, allow for reconsideration, in which after a denial you can call and ask to be reconsidered with a change to your application. So if denied, you could call and request to be reevaluated for DUS, and depending on stats, add the summer option - which gives the best chance at admission AND Iāve never met or heard from a summer start student who didnāt LOVE it. In fact, my daughter who is a junior at Penn State now in the college of IST was admitted for fall her admission year and decided to go in the summer because her older sister and brother enjoyed it so much.
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what year is he trying to transfer in at? Penn State does not allow transfers to UP for sophomore year. Sophomores will automatically be placed in a commonwealth campus. This is because of the entry to major class availability.
If they are a freshman or other year other than sophomore, they can call and ask for reconsideration into a different major at Penn State.
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Usually yes on saturdays but no on sundays.
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Great thanks. My senior was deciding between applying to Smeal or IST. They applied to Smeal. If they arenāt admitted we will call and ask for reconsideration for IST.
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curious to know if both an accepted SMEAL āintended financeā major and an accepted DUS student, need a 3.5 to be accepted into the Finance Major at the end of sophomore year? Are there any advantages to getting into SMEAL vs DUS as an accepted freshman? earlier registration for classes? anything? THANKS!
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Iāve been wondering the same thing. Why does PSU even accept by major if the same entry requirements to declare a major apply the same to direct entry as to everyone else?
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I didnāt see any decisions out there in internetland today. Definitely didnāt see any DUS. I was hoping that today being Friday would be a big drop day.
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