<p>*DECISION: Accepted
*LOCATION: New York
*AGE: 17
*GENDER: male
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: white</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: normal public
*GPA: 3.8 unweighted
*ACT: 27 (30 English; 28 Math; 10 essay)</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS: Designed website for my school, newspaper,science club,...</p>
<p>*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: great
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: excellent</p>
<p>*HOOKS: none
*ALUMNI RELATION:no
*EMPLOYED RELATION: none
*CONNECTION: none
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: none</p>
<p>*DECISION: Accepted. Smeal business school. Sapphire Program.</p>
<p>*LOCATION:Maryland
*AGE:17
*GENDER: M
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: Indian(India)</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: Public- Listed in top 25 of the top 1000 High Schools in America by newsweek</p>
<p>*GPA: Fresham year-3.14 unweighted- Sophomore+Junior years 3.6 UW 4.4 W</p>
<p>*SAT VERBAL:610
*SAT MATH:770
*SAT WRITING:580(luckily they didn't count that this year)
*SAT IIs: Math 1-760</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS:Business Internship, Lead, Theater productions, Pep band, Founding member of business club, Helped at family owned store for years, and took 6 classes at Local Community College
*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: Never read it(signed a thing that said i wouldn't read it) My counselors do a great job at my school
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: Never read it(signed a thing that said i wouldn't read it). Nice teacher that liked me...</p>
<p>*HOOKS: i guess i'm hookless
*ALUMNI RELATION: None
*EMPLOYED RELATION: nope
*CONNECTION: nah
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: I guess my grades went up big time after freshman year.
Took 18 honor classes including 6 APs</p>
<p>*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:GOOD LUCK</p>
<p>When PSU asks for the number of Honors/APs you have taken, what do they mean? In my school all of the honors classes/regular classes are taught by semesters. Since there are two semesters in a year, we get like English 1 Hon, and English 2 Hon for freshman year. Does that count as 2 honors?</p>
<p><em>DECISION: Accepted </em>**es (Summer sessions)</p>
<p>*LOCATION: Allentown, Pa
*AGE: 17
*GENDER: Manly man
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: Caucasian</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: Public (competitive)
*GPA: 3.28 weighted haha
*SAT VERBAL: 630
*SAT MATH: 650
*SAT WRITING: 660
*SAT IIs: (if any)</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS: Model U.N.</p>
<p>*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: Great recommendation
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: Great teacher recommendations (Aren't they always?)</p>
<p>*HOOKS: I must say I wrote an awesome essay
*ALUMNI RELATION: nada
*EMPLOYED RELATION: nada
*CONNECTION: nada
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: nada</p>
<p>*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: See you at UP! I'll be the one by the keg. I don't know how I'll ever graduate.</p>
<p>You do know that it's PSU and not UP.</p>
<p>UP is more for U Penn, and Penn is U Penn and not Penn state. Just so you don't get confused and get other people confused too :-)</p>
<p>UP=University Park</p>
<p>*DECISION: Accepted to Engineering </p>
<p>*LOCATION: New Jersey
*AGE: 17
*GENDER: Female
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: Asian American</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: Public...Pretty competitive
*GPA: 3.78 UW
*SAT VERBAL: 610
*SAT MATH: 710
*SAT WRITING: 640
*SAT IIs: (if any) 800 Math IIC, 660 Chemistry
*ACTs: 28 (c): 35 (m), 26 (e), 27 (s), 22 (r)</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS: no leadership positions. Robotics, Literary Magazine, nothing really amazing</p>
<p>*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: pretty good
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: pretty good</p>
<p>*HOOKS: worked at a paid summer intern at Rutgers University
*ALUMNI RELATION: none
*EMPLOYED RELATION: none
*CONNECTION: none
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: none</p>
<p>*DECISION: accepted</p>
<p>*LOCATION: South Florida
*AGE: 17
*GENDER: M
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: Asian</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: Public, noncompetitive
*GPA: 4.0 UW, 5.92 W (#1 in class)
*SAT VERBAL: 730
*SAT MATH: 800
*SAT WRITING: 760
*SAT IIs: I've taken 7: (800, 780, 780, 770, 760, 750, 740)</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS: NHS (secretary), Key Club, Quiz Bowl (captain), Mu Alpha Theta (prez), French Honor Society (prez), football, bball, MIT Inventeams.</p>
<p>*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: good, not great
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: none?</p>
<p>*HOOKS: good amount of biology research.
*ALUMNI RELATION: dad went to grad school at PSU
*EMPLOYED RELATION: none
*CONNECTION: none
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: none</p>
<p>*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Now, I just want the Braddock scholarship.</p>
<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED mechanical Engineering </p>
<p>*LOCATION: Maryland
*AGE: 17
*GENDER: M
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: Asian American</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: Public
*GPA: (specify weighted/unweighted) 3.9 weighted 3.46 unweighted
*SAT VERBAL: 500
*SAT MATH: 710
*SAT WRITING: 560
*SAT IIs: (if any) 580 bio 650 math 2c didn't send them in</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS: (specify leadership positions) vice president of church Youth Group, etc</p>
<p>*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: don't know
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: none</p>
<p>*HOOKS: none
*ALUMNI RELATION:none
*EMPLOYED RELATION: none
*CONNECTION: none
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: none
*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:</p>
<p>So, does anybody actually get rejected/deferred from PSU?</p>
<p>Yes, unless you live in PA and get accepted to a satellite school.
PSU is getting more selective, as are a lot of other schools, and they tend to want only the best students at UP. A few kids at my school got into a different campus and not into UP straight away.</p>
<p>*DECISION: accepted</p>
<p>*LOCATION: PA (around philly)
*AGE: 18
*GENDER: female
*CULTURAL BACKGROUND: caucasian</p>
<p>*TYPE OF HIGHSCHOOL: very competitive public hs
*GPA: 4.2 weighted
*SAT VERBAL: 620
*SAT MATH:620
*SAT WRITING: 650
*SAT IIs: US History: 710, French: 650</p>
<p>*EXTRACURRICULARS: Varsity XC (9,10,11,12, captain), Varsity Track(9,10,11,12, captain), Student council Vice President, French club, Newspaper staff, Yearbook business manager and photographer, Interact, Varsity winter track (9,10,11), Debate Club, middle school tutor</p>
<p>*COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION: good i guess
*TEACHER RECOMMENDATION/S: one excellent, one pretty generic</p>
<p>*HOOKS: --
*ALUMNI RELATION: Mom, Dad, Brother
*EMPLOYED RELATION: Mom is on the Alumni Board of Trustees and sometimes teaches classes
*CONNECTION:
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS: </p>
<p>*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: My #1 choice is USC- still waiting to hear.</p>