Penn State-University Park creates wait list

Colleges & Universities A-Z Penn State
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University Park, Pa. -- As the number of applications to Penn State's 20 undergraduate campuses point to another record year, and interest in the University Park campus stands at an all-time high, the University has, for the first time in its long history, established an admission wait list for Penn State University Park.</p>

<p>"We are receiving applications at a record rate, which is testament to the quality of the Penn State experience and the value of the Penn State degree," said Randall C. Deike, Penn State's associate vice president for enrollment management and executive director for undergraduate admissions. "The University Park wait list will be limited to high-achieving students who submitted complete application materials after Nov. 30, Penn State's recommended application filing date. We will send a letter about the wait list to these students in the coming week."</p>

<p>The wait list will allow the Undergraduate Admissions Office to continue working with this select group of students, keeping them under consideration for University Park admission if space becomes available, or working with them to find an alternate starting campus within the Penn State campus system. Placement on the wait list is determined by the Undergraduate Admissions Office. Students may not request placement on the wait list for University Park.</p>

<p>The Undergraduate Admissions Office hopes to notify wait-listed students as soon as possible about admission to University Park, but students will receive a final response from the office no later than June 1.</p>

<p>If space does not become available at University Park, students will be contacted regarding an offer of admission to an alternate campus choice. At that time, admission to some campuses may be limited, but admission counselors will help students explore their Penn State options and identify a campus with the best fit for them.</p>

<p>"An important message that we want students to receive is that there is a place for them at Penn State," Deike said. "The Penn State experience does not always start at University Park, but our unique approach to the undergraduate experience affords students the opportunity to complete their degree at the University Park campus." </p>

<p>If at any time, students do not wish to remain on the wait list, the Admissions Office can immediately offer those students admission to a campus other than University Park. If students choose this path, they will join the 60 percent of Penn State students who each year begin their degrees at a Penn State campus other than University Park, and after their sophomore year, complete their Penn State degrees at University Park.</p>

<p>If students on the wait list have questions, or would like to discuss an offer of admission to a campus other than University Park, they may contact Penn State's Undergraduate Admissions Office at (814) 865-5471.

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<p>wow - they must be getting tons of apps.
I wonder why they limited it to those applying after Nov 30.
Seems there were some really good candidates who were rejected and applied prior to Nov 30 - would have been nice to put a few of those kids on the waitlist too. Guess they didn't want to complicate things.</p>

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<p>That is a good point toneranger. Falls under the life is unfair rule - you apply by the deadline and get rejected, you apply after the deadline and get another chance.
I think they should do away with rolling admissions.</p>

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<p>It's a good thing I got all of my stuff in on 12/1...</p>

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<p>I haven't heard of anyone with really stellar stats being rejected early on; though some had a long wait before they heard back.</p>

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<p>Whats up, i got waitlisted to Penn State, just recieved my letter like Feb. 17, good thing i got all my stuff in on Jan. 30th =/ Fricking High School is trying a new system for transcripts to be delievered, and it took mine over 7 weeks to get to PennState, and over 6 weeks to get to UT-Austin, made me miss early decision, so now i have to wait. ANyways, so do yall think that me calling and asking would help me? Its high on my list, #2, behind UT-Austin, which i wont get into, but would calling and saying its my number 1 school, and taht i really want to go there help me at all? I know alot of people there, my relatives live there, so if i went to PSU, after one year i could get instate admissions. Also, i dont want to get F-ed over, i have acceptance to other schools that are lower on my list, such as Ohio University, but they want a reply by May 1st, and June 1st is too late. I dont want to expect to get in, and then may 15th they tell me sorry, and im owned. Could really use some advice, i know its a little confusing, but im trying to explain as best as possible.</p>

<p>Profile:
ACT: 31 36 Math, thats like my highlight b/c im going Electrical Engineering
SAT: 730 Math, 600 English, 630 Writing
GPA: 3.4626 WEIGHTED (IT SUCKS BAD)</p>

<p>Heres another question i guess, ok my GPA got owned. Period. Junior Year i had a ridiculous teacher for Pre-Ap Physics, he made the class impossible hard. When i signed up it said i only needed Algebra II, and be in Pre Cal, which i was, but then when i was in phsycis there were all these wierd symbols i didnt understand, such as the intergration symbol (Im in Calc BC now), which at the time i thought it was just a big S. Our teacher never explained Calculus in Phsyics, and it owned me. I got a 68 the 1st semester, and it gave me a 0 for a GPA grade. This dropped my GPA from a 3.58 to a 3.32, friciking rape. ****ed me off really bad, and since then ive been fighting an uphill battle to try to recover. Is this something i should try to explain to the admissions counselors? This story has merit, b/c since then the PreAp program has been removed for Physics at my school, and has been replcaed with Regular or AP. All of the kids from my PreAp class that took the AP Exam got a 3 or 4, and 2 5s. So basically the moral of the story was that it was an unjust class that i should have dropped, and gotten a 98 in regular, but i didnt cause im dumb. SHould i include this somehow? (BTW i came back and studied really hard 2nd semester and pulled an 82, which allowed me to pass the class and get credit =) )</p>

<p>ANY HELP IS REALLY APPREICATED T.T</p>

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<p>Your stats are great, but you applied after Nov. 30th, which was the priority application date. Unfortunately, I think you just applied too late. By applying earlier, you would have had a better chance. Many who were made Penn State was their #1 choice applied in August and September.</p>

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<p>I would say hang in there and you have a decent shot at getting admitted this summer. Hard to predict though since PSU has never had a waiting list before! This spring, choose the best from the schools you get accepted to and send in your deposit to hold a spot. You can always withdraw if you end up getting into PSU.<br>
In the meantime, it can't hurt to write a letter - letting them know PSU is your first choice (if it really is). If they do end up going to the waitlist, I'm sure they will want to extend offers to those who are really interested. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Meh let me refrase this, my application was in Nov. 18, and i recieved a confirmation email Nov. 20, additionally, all of my credz were on their way, and were recieved by the next week, so by nov. 28, right after thanksgiving break, my stuff was in. But b/c of this new BOGUS transcript system my school is trying to implament, my transcript didnt get in till 7 weeks later, and therefore my app was marked incomplete. I think its ridiculous that i get owned b/c my school is trying something new. But it is what it is, and i agree w/ you, i would have been in if my transcript went smoothly. Meh ><</p>

<p>TRANSCRIPT:
Heres the new system they are trying to do, you order and pay for your transcripts online (we have to pay for them... $10 a piece... does anyone else have to pay for theirs?) and this company gets the order 3-5 business days later, and then somehow puts it on a large list on transcripts to get, am i unaware of how it proceeds from here, but all i know is that it doesnt work, and they tried to implament it, so it would relieve stress from counselors, cause god knows printing paper is hard. But once again it is what it is. =/</p>

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<p>If it truly was your high school's fault, I would ask your guidance counselor to write a letter to PSU admissions on your behalf. Sounds like they (your high school) screwed up big time.</p>

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<p>ya thanks for the feedback guys, meh im not sure whos fault it is, either the high schools or the company, and maybe your right, which brings me tot his quetion</p>

<p>Do yall think that getting my school/this company to write a letter in my regards telling how they messed up would help me at all? </p>

<p>I could see if i did it earlier, but i didn't think about it, i just thought it would get there when it gets there, also</p>

<p>Do your kids/you have to pay for transcripts, because i have ****ed away alot of money on these things, at $10 a pop. Especially when im applying to safety schools, it's just alot of money for me. </p>

<p>Also, meh i really don't want to go to Summer program, unless its at UT-Austin, but i would consdier the PSU one if they offered. </p>

<p>Do yall think I should write a letter/email saying how much i want to go there, and just kiss ass? </p>

<p>Also, i didnt send my SAT IIs to Penn State, just because i have no clue why, i sent them to UT and A&M b/c they wanted them. But they were 750 SAT II LVL II MATHEMATICS, and 630 Literature, i dont know if they mean anytihing, but maybe it will give me an edge?</p>

<p>Thanks for all the help, lol, im just sitting on the edge of my seat waiting. Sucks ><</p>

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<p>Pay for transcripts? That's absolutely ridiculous. Everything is free on my school's end. And they usually have everything sent out within 10 days. I don't go to a small school either.</p>

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<p>no we didn't pay for transcripts - I would say this is pretty unusual. We were asked to buy yellow envelopes for all the stuff the school has to send ($3 each to cover postage and copying). But the $10 is not the awful part - the delay is what's really bad - especially for a rolling admissions school.<br>
Go ahead and ask your guidance counselor about whether they would call or write a letter on your behalf. In any case, YOU should write a letter letting them know how much you want to go there. There are probably no open spots now but there may be some coming up. Do everything you can to get to the front of the line.</p>

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<p>ya thats what i thought too , t.t i guess we are on the same mind slot, also ya i agree, i know alot of people applying to Penn State as a back up, but alot of them are getting into UT-Austin, so they dont care anymore about Penn, so I think ill take your advice. Talking to a friend finish post later.</p>

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<p>TDRAG, I agree with the suggestions to call and write. One caveat, if tuition costs are a concern, Penn State is very specific about who qualifies for in-state tuition. Among other things--
1. A student under the age of 21 is presumed to have the domicile of his/her parent(s) or legal guardian(s), unless the student has maintained continuous residence in the Commonwealth for other than educational purposes for a period of at least 12 months immediately prior to his/her initial enrollment at The Pennsylvania State University, and, the student continues to maintain such separate residence.
<a href="http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/intro/gi-051.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/intro/gi-051.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Here's the Daily Collegian's take on things (also explains why the link in post #1 doesn't work anymore):</p>

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[ Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007 ] </p>

<p>Waitlist instituted</p>

<p>By Andrew McGill<br>
Collegian Staff Writer
With admissions numbers up two years in a row, University Park will be instituting a waitlist for select students next year, according to admissions officials.</p>

<p>This will be the first time Penn State has used a waitlist. It normally operates on a rolling admissions process.</p>

<p>Director of communications and customer services Pat Smith said the waitlist is intended for a small set of "high-achieving students" who applied to University Park after Nov. 30 and did not list a secondary campus choice. "Basically, they have a choice," Smith said. "They can elect to stay on the waitlist, or we can work with them to get them into another campus immediately."</p>

<p>Randy Deike, associate vice president for enrollment management, said Penn State is unique among universities of its size for its admission practices. "We're the only school in the Big Ten that I know of that doesn't have a waitlist," he said. "In the past, we would either offer [applicants] an alternate campus, or have them come back to us with a second campus choice. This just provides one additional option to those students."</p>

<p>Under the terms of the waitlist, several hundred students would be in line to fill spaces vacated by accepted students who decided to attend college elsewhere, Smith said. Deike said there is no numeric ranking among applicants on the waitlist.</p>

<p>"We would make decisions in the same way we have for admissions," he said. "We would look at credentials and make the decisions from there."</p>

<p>Smith said there were no plans to expand the waitlist to other campuses.</p>

<p>"We're doing this on a limited basis," he said. "I don't know if we have any plans to expand it."</p>

<p>Deike agreed. He added that University Park's large applicant pool is prohibitive of a campus-wide waitlist. "We could never offer entry to everyone," he said. "We don't want to put people on the list that we don't think have any chance at a later date."</p>

<p>News of the waitlist was accidentally released through the Penn State Newswire. The article was quickly removed from live.psu.edu. "There are 40 newswires that we put out, some are more specialized than others," spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said. "That was more of an administrative announcement to high school guidance counselors and was not intended for the newswire that goes out to 50 countries on seven continents."

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<p>Grr...I got waitlisted and I applied right around the Nov. 30 deadline. Sent everything before the deadline, I guess it arrived a little too late.</p>

<p>White Male
Suburban NY (Long Island)
Upper-Middle Class</p>

<p>GPA: 89/100 Unweighted; 103/100 Weighted
Rank: 53/415 (fairly competitive public school, based on weighted average)
Hardest courses available (all honors and AP except foreign language)</p>

<p>SAT I
Math: 770
Reading: 680
Writing: 700
TOTALS: 1450/1600, 2150/2400</p>

<p>AP Tests
European History - 3
U.S. History - 3
English Language - 4
English Literature - Not yet taken
Calculus AB - Not yet taken
Environmental Science - Not yet taken
U.S. Government - Not yet taken</p>

<p>Activities
School Newspaper [9]
Photography Club [9]
JV Lacrosse [10]
Community Service Committee [12]
National Honor Society Tutoring Program [12]
Teen-to-Teen Freshman Mentoring Program [12]
Delivered Holiday Gifts to Underprivelaged Families [9-12]
Recreational Basketball [9-12]
Recreational Baseball [9-11]
Summer Job 1 [15 hrs/week]
Summer Job 2 [25 hrs/week]</p>

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<p>1moremom- I have family in Pennsylvania, that actually live close to PSU. After my 1st year, assuming I changed my address to theirs, do you think I would qualify for in state?</p>

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<p>lol shortnproud... either A) you lieing or b) you got screwed...</p>

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<p>No, you would not be classified as instate.
<a href="http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/intro/gi-051.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/intro/gi-051.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>