<p>hmm tough call…</p>
<p>Not to bump this thread, but I am in the same sitch right now.</p>
<p>Quick glance at my stats: 3.53 uw, 4.31 w, 34 ACT, 740s on Math 2 and Bio SAT2s, around top 10-15% of my class, track athlete for two years, 3 years of research internships, applied to w/e their arts and sciences college is.</p>
<p>I applied on the 25th of November and got all my school forms in by the beginning of November, but I just found out yesterday I was rejected. Not to sound overly arrogant and cocky, but I’m absolutely shocked…</p>
<p>Were you rejected or waitlisted?</p>
<p>I know I was waitlisted (sorry, up there, I have a bad habit of referring to PSU as Penn), and my guidance counselor told me a large majority of the waitlistees are accepted. However, I was accepted to other places, and even though I really would’ve liked to attend PSU, I put it at the back of my mind and am considering my other options.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what’s happening at PSU this year, but the decisions are quite interesting. Hopefully, you have some other options that you’d be happy with. Best of luck with everything! =)</p>
<p>I ended up getting rejected, but I have other options that I definitely am happy with; the only issue is that I thought I was well-above PSU’s standards for admission, but apparently they held a different opinion.</p>
<p>Hope you get in off of the waitlist though, that’d be great!</p>
<p>Did any of you who were rejected appeal? My daughter received a reject letter from the Univ of Florida with all the credentials each of you stated. She also received an acceptance letter from Penn State into University Park and Schreyer’s Honor. Go figure. She appealed UF’s decision and got accepted. If it’s want you want - go for it. She’ll probably go to PSU because of the honors college.</p>
<p>how do i know if pennstate rejected me or not? will they send an email to me? cause my webaccess doesn’t seem to work. So i’m guessing that they’ve already rejected me :(</p>
<p>I was in a similar *** situation. I’m a transfer student and was denied admission to the Sec. Ed Major with a 3.85 GPA in my CC while taking honors courses and being one of only 15 students, out of thousands who attend, with an ambassadorship scholarship to the school. My HS GPA was like 4.3 weighted and I even got into PSU Sec. ED major as a prospective senior when I was in high school. </p>
<p>I talked to my advisor about how I didn’t get in. He literally couldn’t believe it, but he made some calls and found out that there literally wasn’t any seats for non-PSU satellite transfers to the Sec Ed Major. I reapplied as Liberal Arts-History (called at 10 am when you can request to reevaluate your app) and I was accepted 3 days later.</p>
<p>Since you missed the deadline, there may literally be NO seats in the major. Talk to your HS counselor, and/or call to re-evaluate as DUS (if freshmen) or Liberal Arts, then transfer after a semester.</p>
<p>This is actually really common. There are schools that see stuudents with highly impressive stats and they reject them becuase they feel that your only applying there for safety. They would rather have someone with lesser stats who wants to go there than to have someone who’s brilliant but doesn’t really want to go there.</p>
<p>This is all explained thoroughly in “The Gatekeepers.”</p>
<p>The point is they probably felt that you didnt really intend to matriculate and felt you’d probably get in to your first choice anyway.</p>
<p>While it is true that “Tufts Syndrome” plays a part in the application process at some schools, PSU has neither the manpower nor the inclination to contemplate whether or not an applicant is using it as a safety.</p>
<p>weird, I got in with a 3.19 and 27 act</p>
<p>this seriously worries me now :S my stats are mostly lower than yours guys’ (who got rejected/waitlisted) and i applied after priority deadline as well.</p>
<p>i’ve been waiting over ~2 months though (I applied in Dec, before break).</p>
<p>But I DID say that I’d love to attend the summer program if starting in Fall 2011 was not an option, so hopefully, that shows them I do want to go there. Crossing my fingers!!</p>
<p>edit:</p>
<p>@Igmister: How does one appeal? Penn State is actually one of my top choices, not a back up at all… and there was no way to really show that besides me logging into their website every single day LOL.</p>
<p>To the above poster-</p>
<p>Call UPark at 10 AM and tell whoever answers the phone that you were told to speak to an admissions counselor (10 AM is when they get off the phone). Tell them you want to apply undecided. They’ll resubmit you and you’ll get an answer in a few weeks. I had the same thing happen with me; I did that and was accepted DUS.</p>
<p>^ Thanks. Do you mean 10AM EST (just making sure bc I’m in a different time zone)?</p>
<p>I heard undecided majors have an easier time getting accepted but I never took that to heart.</p>
<p>Yes, 10 AM EST. Sorry, I’d forgotten to put that in. I had a 31 composite ACT and a 3.7 average and was rejected from the College of Engineering, but accepted to DUS. Sounds like you’re a shoo in for the school and should have no problem reapplying.</p>
<p>Remember that colleges are not just looking for good grades and test scores. Why? Because (for selective colleges) most (not all, but most) of the students applying are above their standards. On paper, 50 students with almost the same (good) SAT scores and gpa look like the same student, just with different names. However, when a student who has done something different or special is thrown into the mix, but who might have lower scores, their hearts will jump for joy and they will accept that person, not the other fifty people. Think about it, who will contribute most to campus: the person who does nothing except study, or the person who participated in band for four years, was on student gov, was editor of their HS newspaper, and spent their summers doing community service, teaching him/herself how to program applications, and participating in camps that extend their learning in areas they enjoy? Now, I am not saying that you didn’t have ec’s, but think, would you have been the one to stand out? Or maybe you didn’t place enough emphasis on your interests and how you satisfied those interests? Maybe your essay was not what they were looking for? Or maybe, as someone said above, PSU saw your credentials and assumed that you were using it as a safety? Whatever it is, though, if you truly want your spot, show them that you want it and appeal their decision.</p>
<p>True, but for overall admissions, PSU has said it is purely a statistics school and does not look at resumes, unless you are applying to Schreyers.</p>