Daughter accepted 12/18 University Studies UP/Fall. Applied mid November
Stats:
GPA: 3.77(Weighted)
1220 SAT (590 math/630 reading)
4 year varsity athlete, team captain, NHS, 200+ hours community service
Location/Person:
OOS
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
What are my chances at UP?
GPA: 3.2 weighted
SAT: 1330/1600
3 years of varsity sports
Male
NY
Caucasian
Applied 10/3/17
current status says “Under Review”
My son’s SRAR changed to complete at some point today after 12 noon. FYI - changes and updates are not only overnight.
Accepted. Received letter in mail today 12/21!
90/100 W GPA ( school does not provide 4.0 scale)
Class does not rank
29 ACT
CLAS- political science
So since my son’s SRAR is complete today, I guess the soonest he may hear back will be 1/3?
@rofiorillo Technically they are still in the office tomorrow so he could hear tomorrow, but absent that - the next time they are in the office is Jan 2 but likely no decisions will actually go out that day as they are returning from the holidays. If other years are any indicator, there will be a big wave of decisions about mid January then another final big wave at the end of January.
@jihpsu I know- I was expecting a 1/31 decision like my daughter had (we were in the same boat back in 2015) but this change today makes me a little hopeful…
@rofiorillo I could swear that I read in one of these posts a few people being accepted around two weeks after their SRAR changed. My son’s status changed to complete last Saturday, and I was hoping he’d hear before the break.
@rofiorillo My SRAR changed on 11/10 and I applied on 9/4, so I’m not sure that the decision comes in two weeks from the day SRAR changes. I wish it did!
I’ve been under review for 3 weeks now. @H0llyw00d
I really think PSU does itself a disservice with its random approach to the timing of admissions decisions. My son applied early October and still does not have a decision (not even showing under review yet). His stats are high enough (>1400 SAT/near 4.0 UW GPA/>4.0 W GPA/In State) that he is virtually certain to be admitted. Even though he understands the random approach PSU takes, he can’t help himself and gets frustrated and feels not wanted when he sees all his classmates getting their decisions. But in the meantime he was accepted to Ohio State well over a month ago and expects notice of a healthy scholarship very soon, which would take the OSU cost close to the PSU cost. (He was also accepted to a handful of other large public schools with good scholarship offers well over a month ago.) That has given him about six weeks to really get comfortable with the idea of going to OSU rather than PSU and I think at this point he probably won’t go to PSU even if accepted. I’m pretty sure that if a PSU admission decision had come sooner, he would not have settled into an alternative and would strongly consider PSU.
Maybe your son needs to learn some patience. It is an important quality in life. He will not always get what he wants when he wants it.
To amdg2000, agreed. I would like him to have a more mature, patient attitude about it. My point though was on the PSU side of things–I assume (and could be wrong, of course) that there are many well qualified kids who will ultimately get accepted but who will be turned off by the random approach and I wonder whether PSU may be doing itself a disservice as a result. Maybe not, but it certainly seems to be the case with respect to my son so I assume that may be more broadly true.
@icbmah I am in the same boat as you. I thought OSU would be significantly less expensive than PSU if the kids get the OSU scholarships especially since I’ve heard PSU doesn’t give much in the form of merit money.
Anyone having trouble checking the portal? When I hit log in it brings me to a corrupted page and says an error occurred.
@pagirl1999 samething happened to me I can not login either
I got into Smeal on Monday, but I don’t see any scholarship rewards. Do those come later?
Me too it is saying “Application Execution Exception” what does this mean?
My DD can see hers all right: still complete and under review:(
@hopefulcadet333 we see the same message as you.