<p>User Name: Yeti23
Gender: M
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Private
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>Class Rank: top 25%</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 590
SAT I Critical Reading: 510
SAT I Writing: 550</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: National Honor Society, Civil Air Patrol, Police Explorers, Service Club, and Hiking Club
Leadership positions: I am a sergeant in the Police Explorers and have leadership roles in the Service Club
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Track...did it for 2 years than got cut.
Volunteer/Service Work: Volunteered at a Hospital
Honors and Awards: National Honor Society, Perfect Attendance, Honor Roll, Character Award, Squadron award for best performance in police expolorers</p>
<p>Desired College Characteristics:</p>
<p>Location type: Urban, Small City
Size: Medium Small (2,500 - 5,000), Medium (5,000 - 10,000), Large (10,000 - 18,000)</p>
<p>Area: East Coast, Midwest</p>
<p><strong><em>Please...Only people who have attended, got accepted, and/or rejected please respond</em></strong></p>
<p>I personally did not get accepted, (i’m only in hs) but my brother did. (For starting in the summer)</p>
<p>I don’t know your GPA, so I can’t really tell you my chances for you without that. (all they look at is GPA and SAT/ACT scores)</p>
<p>Your SAT is pretty weak for UP, so I would definitely try and retake that if possible.</p>
<p>And when you do apply, apply for starting in the summer, it gives you a leg up on admissions, and it’s a great way to learn your way around the campus/transition into college life without the full 40,000+ people.</p>
<p>Well, my Freshmen year was an 86, Sophomore year was OUTRIGHT disgusting 83.4, and this year, my junior year, I got an 88.8. But since I go to a quite selective Private catholic school, doesn’t that RAISE my gpa compared to public school since those schools have much easier courses?</p>
<p>Wow, that is just stupid…you mean I basically just wasted 4 years of going to a harder school while other kids who get easier grades can get in without anything being actually monitored? Because if that is what you’re saying, I will think twice about applying to such a socialist school…</p>
<p>its all a game yeti. PSU may take into consideration the difficulty of your school but in the end its all a numbers game and your a little short in most areas.</p>
<p>Welcome to the College Application game. Many schools have similar procedures.</p>
<p>Just because you go to a private school does not mean that the courses are harder or that the school is any better than the publics in the area. In fact, where I’m from (Chicagoland area) it is often quite the opposite where the public schools are more competitive and harder than the privates.</p>
<p>I think that private is harder than public is incorrect. You can make public very hard if you choose. There are plenty of AP courses offered. Also, SAT is 1/3 of the equation at Penn State. My daughter got a 1960 on her SAT at a public school. So, I would say they prepared her for college.</p>
<p>And yes, private doesn’t necessarily mean harder–especially when its a catholic school. Although ‘private’, a lot of catholic schools are not known for their rigor, and are not in the same league as other private ‘prep’ schools.</p>
<p>I had roughly the same SAT scores, a 93 average with AP(AP Bio and AP Lit) and honors classes, 4 years of lab sciences, 4 years of math including calculus, great EC’s, father an alum, applied early-September, put summer as first choice, and was first rejected from main campus.</p>
<p>When reporting admits’ backgrounds schools typically consider parochial schools separately from other privates, e.g. “About 55 percent of current freshmen come from public schools, with 36 percent from private schools and 9 percent from religiously affiliated schools.” ([Princeton</a> admission guide available online](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/home/03/1027_admission/hmcap.html]Princeton”>Princeton admission guide available online)) There are certainly many great public schools. Among my son’s (public) high school classmates were matriculants to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford and Cornell (among other great schools).</p>
<p>Dear Yeti23,
Is the gpa you listed weighted or unweighted? If your overall GPA is less than a 90 and those are your only SAT scores-PSU UP is going to be a stretch. The competiotion last year was really tough. My son had a 90 weighted GPA and a total 1850 on his SAT and they offered him a branch campus or the Summer Leap program. Although at first he hated the thought of going in the summer- he is there now and loving it. So give it a shot apply for the leap program and in the fall you will be in the main campus and keep your fingers crossed. Look into some other schools as a backup. Good luck</p>
<p>S’s public school had only honors, AP, and IB classes for academic subjects such as math, english, the sciences, etc. P.E., music, and art classes were not typically included in GPA. The school did not weight classes or rank. The AVERAGE SAT for the school hovered around a 1400 for CR and Math. To the best of my knowledge, no one had a 4.0 at graduation. When applying to PSU, the unweighted GPA was used to determine admission and scholarships. The students from the school had some difficulty competing against the 4.5+ weighted GPAs from other schools, particularly for scholarships.</p>
<p>Things change from year to year. Admission may also be influenced by the major in which you are interested. I would suggest you turn in your application early and see what happens.</p>