Your application has been updated please check back for a status update and the picture starting campus changed to Altoona. Are we supposed fill in blanks? So disappointed.
I’m accepted to pre-med in main campus!!
I’m still waiting for other colleges… should I accept my offer to admission??
I can’t believe I actually got in
I am so shook right now
So I looked at the status of my application again this morning and it still said that it has been updated and to look back soon for updates but then I noticed how my starting campus changed from Main to Altoona. And also on top there is a picture of the Altoona campus so I’m guessing I got accepted there? I was really hoping I’d be accepted for summer sessions at main, is there any way I can still be able to do that?
@dpschool : yes it probably means Altoona. It’s one of the most requested campuses so jump on it and reserve housing right away as they’re short on residential space.
@Crazyideashere : can you indicate stats (GPA uw and w, test scores, total of honors and AP classes added up together) and what major you applied for? What has made you shocked (or shaken)? In any case, congratulations!
That’s what we have too…I think that’s a strange way to do this.
@dpschool That probably means you were deferred to Altoona. I am surprised they are doing the picture change thing again. They haven’t done that in a little while. My son is going to Altoona in the fall. As far as I know, housing is already gone, but maybe they hold some back for situations like this. You’d have to call. But even if housing is gone, most Altoona students live off campus.
I think it’s terrible…this is penn state…unbelievable
@dpschool Just wait until a decision is posted before you get too upset. The picture change might be a glitch. Those happen. If it’s not a glitch, I know how disappointing it is. But remember, if you start at a branch, you still finish at UP and a PSU degree holds quite a lot of weight. 60% of students who graduate from UP start at a branch campus. Altoona is a beautiful campus and is quite close to UP campus and students are very involved at UP campus if they want to be. That’s why my son chose Altoona. He applied there directly because he knew he wasn’t ready for the large UP campus. I know many kids who started at Altoona and all really liked it.
@MYOS1634
Applied for biochem/molecular bio, accepted Jan 27
Stats:
SAT:1150 (horrible)
SAT IIs: none
GPA: 3.6/4 UW 3.94W
Rank:16/139
Other stats: 4 AP, 15 honours
Subjective:
Essays: AMAZING. I wrote about moving to America and my life
Teacher Recs: NA
Counselor Rec:NA
Hook (if any):born and raised in England for over a decade
Location/Person:
State or Country:CT
School Type:Public(magnet)
Ethnicity: Black(Nigerian) and British
Gender:female
I have a lot after school clubs. National honours society, Spanish honour society
Thank you that’s helpful. How could housing be gone already? It’s for my son and likely I won’t be able to talk him into Altoona and especially if I inform him that housing is “already gone”! I find it so confusing that they wouldn’t at least offer acceptance definitively to Altoona instead of doing it by simply changing his picture and his “first choice” campus on his Application details to Altoona? They could definitely spin This better in my opinion.
…They will. It says “Check back soon for updates,” no?
@dpschool If the status hasn’t changed yet, they haven’t offered him acceptance to anywhere yet. They also haven’t denied him. The picture change is not a definitive anything. That’s why I suggested to wait until you get a portal update with the exact thing he’s been accepted for explained. Right now, you are working on conjecture. You are taking the picture change as a decision and it’s not. That’s why you are confused. When the portal changed with the correct information it will be very clearly laid out where he was accepted and for what.
What were your son’s stats?
Housing at Altoona is tough. There are only 900 dorm spots for over 4000 kids. There are apartments all over right near campus that house all students. My son wanted to live in the apartments, but since he accepted his spot back in early October (he applied directly to Altoona) we made him request housing. I know for current direct admits, they are putting kids on a wait list. I do not know if they ‘hold back’ some dorm rooms for kids who were deferred to Altoona. They very well may. So you’d have to check on that. That being said, my son WISHES we’d let him live off campus. The off campus apartments abut campus and are very nice and very socially active. Any Altoona questions, feel free to PM me. But wait until you see what they actually say. Right now you do NOT have a decision.
True. Yes I suppose they will.
THIS IS KILLING ME!!! I JUST WANNA HEAR BACK
Think of kids in California, who won’t hear back from ANY state school till March.
@MYOS1634 well first, I am out of state for PSU, and second, I would not mind waiting till March with everyone, it is just killing me that it seems most decisions have been sent out and mine has not.
@Crazyideashere @Moody777 when did you guys apply?
I applied in late September, still haven’t gotten an answer. Probably because I’m a transfer applicant.