<p>SAT: 2030
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 4.08 out of 4 weighted, 3.8 unweighted
Rank: N/A
Other stats: 6 AP classes, other honors.</p>
<p>Essays: Decent, not particularly outstanding in my view. Not sure they even read mine.
Teacher Recs: None
Counselor Rec: Counselor knows me by name and relatively well.
Hook (if any):</p>
<p>State or Country: Virginia
School Type: Large, public
Ethnicity: White
Gender:Male</p>
<p>Other Factors: Awarded most outstanding business student of my school, Honor Roll, AP Scholar with Honor, successful athlete (all-region, qualified for state championship) and team captain.</p>
<p>General Comments: My first acceptance. Feels awesome. Penn State isn’t my first choice but it is in my top 3 with some reach schools above it, so there’s a very good chance I’ll attend if I don’t get into the reaches. Impressed with the campus tour I took last April.</p>
<p>Good luck to the rest of you all! I may very well meet you this summer! </p>
<p>Accepted to the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences!</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>SAT: 2030 (690 CR, 710 M, 630 W)
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 3.5 UW, 4.4 W
Rank: 27/211
Other stats: IB Diploma candidate, 2 APs</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essay: Pretty solid
Teacher Recs: N/A
Counselor Rec: Counselor knows me well, so probably good
Hook (if any): N/A</p>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<p>State or Country: DE
School Type: Medium public (1200 kids)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other Factors: I attended a camp at Penn State in June 2014.</p>
<p>General Comments: Penn State is definitely my top choice, so I’m thrilled that I was accepted. Definitely didn’t expect to hear before January, so I’m pleasantly surprised. </p>
<p>Miscellaneous info:</p>
<ul>
<li>Application submitted 9/7</li>
<li>Status changed to “a decision will be made available” 9/25</li>
<li>Status changed to “coming days” 11/3 (last night)</li>
<li>Picture remained University Park the whole time (I selected Altoona as a backup)</li>
</ul>
<p>MetsfanAJM - be sure to do TOTEMS next August. Great way to meet other EMS students and according to my DD (attended as freshman then counselor for last 2 years) it’s a really good time.</p>
<p>My dd was accepted to PSU tonight. College of Engineering. Computer Science.</p>
<p>SAT: 1950
GPA: 3.93 (UW)
Rank: n/a
Other stats: 2 AP’s, lots of honors</p>
<p>Essay: pretty solid
Teacher Recs: none
Counselor Recs: none
Hook: homeschooled (if that’s really a hook, who knows)</p>
<p>State: PA (military)
School type: homeschool
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female</p>
<p>Applied September 7th.</p>
<p>So excited for her, for PSU is her first choice. She’s babysitting right now and doesn’t know that’s she has been accepted. I bought her a PSU shirt today in anticipation. </p>
<p>Accepted: Smeal College of Business
SAT: 2030
GPA: 3.8 uw/4.74w
Rank: top 5%
State: PA
Gender: Male
Extra’s: 4 years varsity , EC’s with leadership, pt job</p>
<p>My D was accepted to PSU last night
Accepted: Smeal College of Business</p>
<p>ACT: 32
GPA: 3.6uw/4.2w
Rank: N/A
Other stats: 7 AP classes, other honors.</p>
<p>State or Country: NJ
School Type: Large, Top 10 public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors: AP Scholar with Honor, successful athlete (all-region, state championship final) and tennis team captain.
Penn State is one of her top 3 choices, she will wait for other acceptances before make a decision.</p>
<p>Accepted to the College of Engineering at University Park!</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>SAT: 2020 (670 CR, 670 M, 680 W)
SAT IIs: Chem ??? Math 1 ???
GPA: 3.8333 UW, 4.7667 W
Rank: 7/38
Other stats: In a Middle College program with the local community college and my high school, so I will have an Associate’s in Science and my high school diploma when I graduate in May. 4 APs</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essay: Pretty decent
Teacher Recs: N/A
Counselor Rec: Counselor is new this year and does not really know me
Hook (if any): N/A</p>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<p>State or Country: NC
School Type: Small public (107 kids, all juniors and seniors)
Ethnicity: White/Native American
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments: Penn State is one of my top choices and my first acceptance! I didn’t expect to hear before January, so that’s awesome.</p>
<p>Miscellaneous info:</p>
<ul>
<li>Application submitted 10/3</li>
<li>Status changed to “coming days” 11/4 (that is just when I noticed it, it would be sometime between 10/31 and 11/4 in reality)</li>
<li>Went to check the status this morning and it was an acceptance!</li>
<li>Picture was of University Park the whole time (Abington was my back up)</li>
<li>I will make a decision after I hear back from UC Berkeley, MIT, and NC State.</li>
</ul>
<p>My DD found out on 10/31 that she was accepted to DUS at University Park, for fall! Her status changed to “coming days” sometime between the 30th and the 31st. Around 5:00 on the 31st is when we noticed the change to “coming days”. Later that night, when she logged on AGAIN (LOL!), it changed to CONGRATULATIONS! </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1860
SAT IIs: didn’t take
GPA: 4.06 W; 3.88 UW
Rank: school doesn’t use, but she is top 10%
Other stats: 6 AP, rest H</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: good
Teacher Recs: n/a
Counselor Rec:n/a (bc PSU doesn’t use them)
Hook (if any):</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: PA
School Type: large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>As an alumni, I an ecstatic my son received his acceptance to UP College of Engineering on Nov 3rd. His status changed twice before actual acceptance. Upon receiving his offer, he immediately accepted.
His status changed to acceptance early evening so be sure to check after dinner! Best of luck everyone.</p>
<p>Now, does anyone have tips for how to avoid East Halls?</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of the acceptances! That’s awesome!<br>
On the admissions chat yesterday they said that Freshmen live mostly in East, then next largest population in Pollack, then North, and someone else said they also live in South and West! So, I’d guess if you get your housing request in early and don’t put East as your first or second choice, then you should have a good shot of getting out of East. Good luck and congratulations to everyone!</p>
<p>@MetsfanAJM nothing is wrong with East Halls. It’s just far away from most classes in the corner of campus. But on the other hand, it is very near the creamery and Beaver Stadium. Also, ONLY freshmen live in East Halls. Some people want that, others do not. East Halls is a typical cement block, bathroom in the hallway, dorm. But to be fair, a lot of the dorms on campus are the same way. There is a nice big quad around East Halls and I think it’s a very nice part of campus. Whether it’s too far for you or not may depend on your intended major. The engineering buildings are on a diagonal on the other side of campus…so very far away. I knew a lot of people who lived in East and they wouldn’t change a thing. You certainly get to know a lot of people and make a lot of friends because everyone is new. </p>
<p>I was accepted on Monday (Nov. 3rd) to the College of Communications for fall term at University Park!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: N/A
ACT: 30
GPA: 3.52/4.0, 3.843 W
Rank: My school does not rank</p>
<p>Essays: I would say pretty strong, I kept a narrative format throughout and I think this was by far the strongest essay I used for any college.
Teacher Recs: None
Counselor Rec: I would assume decent</p>
<p>State or Country: IL
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors: Most prominent activities were: Sports (track and field, XC), National Honor Society, youth group participation along with annual mission trip, English TA, employment experience</p>
<p>General Comments: This is my number one school and for that reason I was thrilled to get in (i.e. cried for about thirty minutes). However, I will also say that I definitely did not expect to hear back earlier than late January, let alone hear back at the time when the very first decisions were being sent out. I’ve heard rumors for so long that the “strongest” applicants get decisions the earliest and that most have to wait for months. By no means would I consider myself at the top of the applicant pool, which makes me wonder if that idea is even true at all. So, to those of you who are paranoid that you’ll have to wait months for a decision because you consider yourself a “middle of the road” applicant, so was I–and don’t think too hard about that! From the time that I submitted my web application to the time that I received my admissions decision, only about 6-7 days had gone by.</p>
<p>Accepted Eberly College of Science University Park! Submitted my app 9/5, “coming days” on 10/31, and acceptance on 11/3!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1910 (660CR/620M/630W)
SAT IIs: didn’t take
GPA: 3.9UW 4.3W
Rank: 27/395
Other stats: 14 AP/Honors classes, 4 year softball varsity letterman, national honor society, French honor society, volunteer work</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: pretty good I’d say
Teacher Recs: didn’t send
Counselor Rec: not sure
Hook (if any):</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: PA
School Type: large public school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments: My first choice! I didn’t think I’d hear this early and I was so happy when I did! This is the only school I want to go to and I can’t wait for next year!</p>
<p>PennStateAlum92 - for engineering your son might want to look at the Engineering SLO. Many schools dorm their engineers together. I’m not sure what building it’s in, but you can check in the housing link or just search Penn State SLO.</p>
<p>Has everyone received their acceptance letter in the mail? My DD was accepted online 11/3 and she still hasn’t received anything in the mail. My older DD received hers the same day the acceptance went online.</p>
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