@MYOS1634 Yeah, I’ve consistently gotten high 90s in my English classes throughout high school – all of which are honors or AP.
I also scored a 710 on the CR part of my SAT, so that probably played a role in my early acceptance, too.
Thank you!! I’m super excited! PSU is one of my top choices 
Got accepted today fir premed program
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@kkarssenn what were your stats?
@sstudent2022 what were your stats?
I was accepted on 12/9 into the College of Engineering at UP
Applied 11/30
Stats:
SAT: Didn’t send
ACT: 34
GPA: (Weighted): 4.307, 4.0 UW
Rank: 2/130
Subjective:
Essays: Completed
Teacher Recs: N/A
Counselor Rec: N/A
Hook (if any): 19 APs and honors (all my school offered), good ec’s
Location/Person: OOS
State or Country: Virginia
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
I was accepted to University Park DUS today morning.
Applied end of September
Stats:
SAT: 1480
GPA: 3.4 (UW)
Rank: Does not rank
Location/Person: OOS
State or Country: CA
School Type: Good Public School
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Got accepted into university park fall this morning!! Applied to liberal arts for political science.
Stats:
SAT: 1280
ACT: 26
GPA: 3.98 (weighted) 3.88 (unweighted)
rank: 30/410 I think
other stats: 5 honors, 5 AP’s, 5 years of foreign language (if that helps I’m not sure)
essays: I was proud of them so I think they were pretty good haha
recommendations: n/a
hook: n/a
location:
state: out of state/Michigan
school type: public
ethnicity: white
gender: female
other factors: A good amount of extracurriculars, I have a job, mock trial club (student leader), Spanish club (student leader), I play the flute, stats/film for girls lacrosse, etc
I’m so excited, I thought I would put it on here because my test scores aren’t that good wishing everyone else luck and hope this made people feel better! We are!!
I got accepted to University Park this morning
Applied first week of November
Stats:
SAT: 1420
GPA: 3.6 (UW) 3.75 (W)
Rank: Does not rank
4 APs and 2 honors
Location/Person: OOS
State or Country: CA
School Type: Good Public School
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Other factors: Captain of cheer team, babysit part time, summer program, etc.
My D got accepted to University Park, College of Engineering, Computer Science.
Applied Mid October
Stats:
ACT: 30 (31 super scored)
GPA: 3.76 uw, 4.83 w
Rank: DR
Course rigor: 13 APs, 4 Dual Credit Courses, 6 honors. Only 2 courses were not AP/Dual/Honors, as they were offered only as regular, besides mandatory courses like Health and Consumer Ed
Location: OOS
Lot’s of EC’s, Software Engineering internship
Portal changed to in review on Monday, pleasantly surprised she got acceptance today as I wasn’t expecting decision for another 3-4 weeks.
Her most B’s were in freshman year. I think her coursework rigor and upward trend in GPA helped, even with just average test scores. I am glad colleges look beyond just test scores, unlike our state flagship university that has a top ranked engineering/CS program where test score is pretty much everything.
@Psuguy1818 Congrats!! I told you it’d all be worth it once you got that acceptance, right!? Now the next 8 months will FLY by and you will be at UP before you know it.
ACCEPTED!!! Penn St Nursing Program - University Park
Daughter’s Stats:
SAT: 1260
GPA: 4.0 weighted
In math and Science courses - no GPA lower than a 102%
(took 2 High school classes in 8th grade that pulled her gpa down a little)
Rank: Does not rank - probably top 10%
2 APs; 8 Honors; 4 IB
Location/Person: OOS
State: NY
School Type: IB Public School
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Other factors: Varsity cheer team, 2 clubs, work part time throughout the year since 9th grade; Counselor at YMCA sleep away camp
@jlhpsu Good afternoon! I’ve read a lot of your post on this blog and I know you have an extensive knowledge about Penn State’s admission process. I was wondering if you could hopefully advise me what would be the best thing to do. I’m a OOS(Georgia) applicant with a 3.9W GPA, 28 ACT ,6 AP’s, 2 honors, and ranked 130/334(public school that is ranked top 15 in state). I have a ton of extracurriculars as well. I applied to Penn State’s Elberly College as a pre med major and I was wondering if I should change my major to DUS to increase my chances of getting in?
@PenState7317 it’s best to ask this on another thread as this is a decision thread. DUS is usually considered easier to get into than eberly… if you get denied (which I think is unlikely with your stats) you can always call and ask to be re-evaluated for DUS. If you want to play it safe then you can just call and have them change your application. There is no advantage to applying to a specific major vs DUS as you don’t even declare your major until your junior year and can pick what ever you want.
I submitted my application in mid October for Main Campus and also selected the summer semester as an option to increase my chances, how strong at my chances to get in?
GPA: 4.0
SAT: 1200/1600
Rank: Top fifth
Extracurriculars: Lots of community work, varsity track and football team captain, also was in an outdoorsmen club for four years
Took all the maths, English’s, sciences, and history’s required, only have Spanish 1 with a 97% but it said you can correct this deficiency by passing a world language class while your there at PSU before you graduate.
How do my chances look? Thanks!
Both D1 and D2 accepted today to UP Fall. Submitted in Sept. OOS
D1
Bioengineering
SAT: 1450
GPA: 3.83W; lots of AP and honors
Good ECs
D2
English
ACT: 32
GPA: 3.53W (strong upward trend); APs and honors
Good ECs
My daughter was accepted today- woohoo!
University campus, Engineering
No summer
1360 SAT
96 unweighted GPA
8 AP, 3 Honors, 2 accelerated - SUPA
Ranked 3/78
NY state resident
Applied mid-November
My daughter received an acceptance today to the College of Education - summer start.
Hi, my daughter also applied to the college of education, can you tell us her stats? Thanks in advance…
Accepted to Civil Eng. OOS