@Tylerhex The Net Price Calculator https://cce.ais.psu.edu/legacy-college-cost-web/netPricePageOne.xhtml can give you a decent guess at the amount of aid you might receive.
I wrote to the admissions office about when the decisions for international students are going to be out. They replied by saying latest by late April. I’m super bummed 
Not surprised. My daughter’s EFC is 542, and with her financial aid award, her unmet need is $15K, and we are in-state. She is waiting for a decision on a scholarship sponsored by one of the founders of her charter school that will cover 40% of Penn State’s tuition. Winning this scholarship will make her choice much easier.
@stius4
I am an international applicant too. My app status changed from the ‘thank you’ message to ‘under review’ today. For reference, I had applied on 4th of January.
Also, in most cases, all decisions will be out by 31st of March (Mainly because they need to give time to deferred students).
@Birdypurdy @stius4
Same here! I applied as an international student around the end of October, and my application status changed to “under review” around the beginning of December. I know someone else who is also an international student has been accepted maybe two weeks ago. I called today, and I was told that I could hear back anytime between now and mid-April. It is really good to know in most cases that all decisions will be out by 31st of March!
Still waiting to hear about admission. Now when I log into the portal it says “CPR account was not found using your PSU_ID…please contact admissions.” I wonder what that means. Went under review Dec.5
I am an international student from india
My state are
SAT: 1330
TOEFL:100
Grade 10 CGPA: 10/10
Grade 11 percentage: 90.99
Few extracurriculars such as ( volunteering, basketball, badminton)
Academic achievements( NASA space settlement contest 2nd prize, and a few others)
DO you think I can get in?
Just got accepted to Penn state business school university park.
Stats
SAT 1300
Secondary education in UK
Predicted a level grades AAB
@apples11 I had the same thing in the morning.
I think that despite how many times people say it here, people want to still believe that somehow miraculously Penn State will grant them financial aid. Please believe us when we say they likely won’t! If you are lucky enough to get Schreyers you will get a small amount of aid (5k a year). If you can get a college based scholarship you might get a little more. But even with both of those things, I’ve not heard of anyone getting more than about 10k a year, give or take, in true scholarship money. That is not that big of a dent in Penn State’s costs, especially for OOS students. Most people pay for Penn State through student loans, parent loans and savings. Which you can see here: https://admissions.psu.edu/costs-aid/student-aid/
Scholarships are only 9% of the available funding and the average scholarship amount at Penn State is $1500-$3000 a YEAR. Only 6700 freshmen students across ALL campuses received these scholarships.
We keep saying it over and over. Please believe us!
Before starting down the college selection road with my son, I had no idea that colleges were completely different when it came to how aid was distributed. I naively thought all schools had scholarships, grant money, etc. and that need did not play a part in merit aid. Fast forward to reading up on the topic and specifically looking at the policies of the schools he was most interested in, it was a big shock. For instance, he wanted to go to Northwestern and had a realistic shot of getting in. Then I read that they meet 100% of need for students (GREAT!) but don’t give ANY merit aid if you don’t have “need.” We fall in that category of not meeting need as defined by FAFSA, but certainly we do NOT have $70,000 available to pay for each year for only one of our 3 kids. So, that school was completely off the table. He applied to Alabama. He got a $25,000 scholarship, but just didn’t like the school. And then there is Penn State. He loves it. I love it (I"m an alum). It is driveable from our house. They have a strong program in his major. But my research showed me we could expect very little money. He was fortunate to get the Provost Scholarship, but that is only $4,000 per year. If he gets in Schreyer, that will bring it to $9,000, but still that leaves us with a big bill. We went in with eyes open, though. I don’t understand people’s hostility and comments like “I guess they only want rich kids at Penn State.” They are honest up front, and certainly people on this forum have been honest. I wish people would do their homework BEFORE applying places to know what to expect and help their kids set expectations.
@VijaySreekar What is your intended major?
I choose electrical engineering @apples11
Any chance of scholarship-merit money?
My daughter was accepted and I am wondering if she could possibly get money. She was accepted to university of Delaware Honors College and awarded $13,000/year. She was also accepted to Ohio State and awarded $14,000/year.
She wants Penn State but it’s hard to agree when she is being offered a lot of money from Delaware and Ohio State.
Any possibility of money from Penn State?
@Adhoc17 please read the posts above yours. Your question has been answered by a knowledgeable and dedicated member.
Sorry which posts. There are so many. We did not apply for financial aid.
@Adhoc17 right above yours-post #1850. There is also a thread in this group specific to Financial Aid at Penn State, which also discusses merit.
@Adhoc17 - NO. Don’t count on it. I pay full out of state tuition. I did not get a dime. She got merit money at higher ranked privates, but in the end, it came to the same price. Ex 60K tuition, 13 in merit cost of attendance about 47. Some reach schools gave us nothing. Cost of attendance for her safety schools was much lower. I knew she was worth the investment so I told her to pick in the 47 range or lower. The investment is paying off. She graduates in May and a has a job waiting for her as an engineer with a major defense contractor. IF she was going into a field like teaching or nursing where the starting pay was all the same, I would have told her to pick one of her safeties. You have to weigh future earning potential versus the cost of that education.
@VijaySreekar From what I understand from discussion on this thread, engineering has a higher bar than other intended majors such as DUS (exploratory/undecided) or liberal arts. Your scores aren’t high enough to be extremely confident of admission to University Park but keep in mind no matter what you will get accepted to Penn State. You may get accepted to University Park but if are not admitted to University Park you will be accepted for a 2 + 2 program where you would start at a branch campus and then finish at university Park. Many people like this option because the smaller size campus is a nice way to ease into Penn State. Also, if you don’t get the outcome you want then you could ask to be re-evaluated for the DUS major at University Park. This just means that you would declare your engineering major in your sophomore year and would not have to impact on your progress toward your intended degree. By the way, all of my information comes from what I have read on this thread so take it for what it’s worth!
In light of all scholarship and aid hoopla, we are also learning hard way that Pens State is not generous at all. Therefore my DC is highly unlikely to join Pens State pre-medicine at UP, OOS candidate. Its not worth spending 45K/year for UG. Did we have that knowledge, we would have avoided to apply all together. GL to rest !!!.