Penn State Transfer Thread

Hi! I really couldn’t find a thread for Penn State transfer students for the 2017 school year on here, so I decided to make one! Please feel free to post your current college/universities, GPA and when you were accepted/how long you have been waiting. I’m very anxious myslef!

I currently attend an out-of-state community college where I have a 4.0 GPA. I applied in November 2016 and all of my materials have been sent and verified since then. I have also just sent my final Fall 2016 semester grades in, so I am waiting for those to be recieved/verified.

When I called PSU in the beginning of December, a lady told me I wouldn’t hear back until March.

Has anyone heard back yet?

I was accepted as a forensic science major. I am attending a 4-year university in Texas. I completed my application in October, and got the offer yesterday. My gpa was 3.75.

I just looked again as somebody’s status said the same thing as mine, “Your application has been updated. Please check back for updates.” And I looked to what my starting campus was and it got changed to Altoona instead of Main. So that means I got denied from Main right?

@Lydia17 What year are you? Penn State only accepts transfers for junior year. If you are transferring for sophomore year, you have to go to a branch campus for a year. No transfers go to UP for sophomore year. You either go freshman year, or not until Junior year. That may be why your application changed to a branch campus.

Hey guys! I applied to transfer to Penn State for the fall of 2017 as well. I am a political science major and my GPA is a 3.49. After this semester I will have 63 credits. I am also trying to transfer from West Chester University (state school in Pennsylvania). I sent my updated transcript the first week of January and ever since then my application status says, “Your application materials are currently being verified. We will add any additional requirements needed to complete your application once this process is complete.” It has been like this for 3 weeks now, anyone else have a similar experience?

I’ve already posted here a couple times but now my application changed back to “Your application is under review.” And before it said that my application was updated and to check back soon for an update. Could it have been a glitch or something? I know nobody could really know the real answer I’m just confused

@Lydia17 it definitely could have been a glitch, a while back in October mine changed to a campus I didn’t even apply to and said I was accepted there. I called and they couldn’t figure it out and said we must have made a mistake.

I have to wait until May to get my result. They need my spring grades. Applied like the end of September

Whats your major @NASA2014? If you don’t mind me asking

I’m a transfer applicant. Not sure if its the same process. It’s meteorology

hey guys, has anyone else heard anything back yet? after i sent in my spring & summer class schedule to admissions, my status changed to “Your application is currently under review by your academic department. You should receive an admission decision within six weeks.”

by the way, i applied to major in Health Policy & Administration in the school of Health and Human Services

by the way, i applied to major in Health Policy & Administration in the school of Health and Human Development

I have not heard anything yet, but its been two week since mine changed to “Your application is under review. A decision will be posted here as soon as one is made”

if its been 6 weeks I would call admissions, they are very helpful with speeding things up!

did your application change to “Your application is under review. A decision will be posted here as soon as one is made” after your status was “Your application is currently under review by your academic department. You should receive an admission decision within six weeks.”?

Penn State needs my Spring Grades so I can get an admission decision.

@NASA2014 so they didn’t tell you that you would find out within 6 weeks or anything?

@max1121 mine was actually stuck at “your app materials are being verified…” for like 2 months so I called and she put the refresh through so then it changed to “Your application is under review. A decision will be posted here as soon as one is made” but I am pretty sure it is just a general rule of thumb for PSU that they try and get all decisions out in 6 weeks of this statues