if dad sis(current) and unclle went, mom didnt go to college (PENN STATE)
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<p>Depends...which college are we talking about? At some colleges unless ur family donated millions to the college u just like any other applicant. Word of caution: never consider yourself a shoo in<<<that's very bad karma trust me, i cannot count the number of people who got crushed in last year's admission.</p>
<p>Most important at Penn State is high school GPA (and courses taken) and SAT or ACT score. Legacy gets very minor consideration. Like many state schools a large percentage of the applicants can often claim some type of legacy and thus such schools cannot place any significance on it.</p>
<p>your rgihti should think that im not getting in so i wont be ****ed if i get rejected</p>
<p>no it does not</p>
<p>Legacy is almost meaningless at most large state schools like Penn State. Your personal stats will matter a whole lot more than anything else.</p>
<p>Legacy has different effects at different schools. Schools even define it differently so that legacy might mean a grandparent or sibling at some schools and not at others. In "Admissions Confidential" by Rachel Toors, she describes her experience at Duke and says that they had different categories of legacy even for parents. If a parent attended, but wasn't active in the alumni association, it didn't count for much.</p>
<p>so if my fresh gpa is an 82, 10th is 83, 11th 89, overall 84.9, and i have a 500 cr and 570 M, what are my chances with good ecs, summer session, and early appl?</p>
<p>The SAT 50% ranges at Penn State are V 530-630 and M 560-670. I don't give estimates, but you might be low even with legacy and ED. Try to retake the SAT in the fall. Even if you apply ED and are deferred, higher SAT scores would help you during RD. The best way to study for Verbal is to read a lot. The best way to study for Math is to learn the trick techniques and take practice tests. I would get a SAT study guide and take a lot of practice tests.</p>
<p>Does any have any tips for PSU in particular?</p>
<p>so if my fresh gpa is an 82, 10th is 83, 11th 89, overall 84.9, and i have a 500 cr and 570 M, what are my chances with good ecs, summer session, and early appl?</p>
<p>You need better than that for UPENN.</p>
<p>EDIT: Just realised this was for Penn State not UPenn.</p>
<p>yes! they put a HUGE emphasis on alumni. Your father and sister will be of importance, but not your uncle, they just look at immediate family. My mother, father, grandfather and grandmother (grandparents do count) and brother all went. My brother was a mediocre high school student, GPA was less around a 2.9...and he got in with no problem, he was told in an interview at one point ( that as long as he maintained a 2.7 he'd have no problems getting in. Of course it depends on the major, he went for hotel restaurant management. </p>
<p>OK, so, some ppl tells me it means ****, others dont, some help? lol</p>
<p>depends on the major, he went for hotel restaurant management. </p>
<p>doesn't seem to difficult a major...</p>
<p>yeah, some kids from my school are going golf-management and they had three digit scores, so maybe those programs are easier</p>
<p>WAIT< so iF I GO GOLF MANAGMENT I CAN TRANSFER OUT ? SO THERES A CHANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>bump this sh itttt</p>
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<p>Okay, a serious answer:</p>
<p>Some colleges have majors that they are very interested in helping. These are usually unusual majors that not many people apply for. If your stated goal is to major in that area, it might help.</p>
<p>However, this doesn't work where you apply to UPenn with a declared major of Communications and then try to switch to Wharton's School of Business. It doesn't work when you apply to a college with a declared major of English and then try to switch into an engineering major. When you apply, you apply to a college within the university. Communication/English/Biology/Math majors typically apply to something sounding like the "College of Arts and Sciences". Engineering majors typically apply to something sounding like the "College of Engineering". Within a college within the university, it is easy to switch between majors so long as you stay within the same college. It is more difficult to switch majors if it involves also switching colleges within the university.</p>
<p>It would be hard for you to declare your major as Golf Management without having golf as an EC.</p>
<p>On a unrelated note: Is is just me or do PSU alumni love their alma mater more than graduates from any other school?</p>
<p>Dufus - are you talking about the University of Pennsylvania in Philly - or about Penn State in State College?? Two waaay different schools - about 4 hours apart, through some of the most hellacious wintertime driving you've ever seen!</p>
<p>The OP was talking about faking a Golf Management major in order to get into Penn State. Coincidently, I used UPenn as an example of how you can't fake a major to get into Wharton.</p>
<p>no, but i didnt know that you had to like, do that and such. But hhow competitive is the science and computer science schools</p>