<p>so some of my friends got the postcard in the mail about taking the tests before ftcap, do these come out at the same time...or depending on when you accepted your offer of admissions. I accepted mine later than they did so will mine be coming in the mail later, or do they all come together?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>They come at different times. As soon as you have the opportunity you should take the tests so that they can set you up for FTCAP day. The sooner FTCAP the more choices in courses are available. Many times they will open new courses if certain ones get filled up but it doesn't hurt to be at the beginning. Also once you set up your schedule you will be able to change it if you want to as all courses and remaining seats in each class are on line and seat availability changes all the time. So don't stress too much.</p>
<p>I heard that the postcard thing doesn't even say Penn State on it. So I'm actually worried my dad will throw it out.</p>
<p>Yup still waiting for the postcard, next year is going to be awesome, I cant wait.</p>
<p>Belated - it's bright yellow, you can't miss it (hopefully!).</p>
<p>I accepted my offer of admission in January and I'm still waiting for the postcard.</p>
<p>As I recall from last year, the postcard came in early April. If you need to stay overnight the night before, make a hotel reservation right away. Also, make sure you arrive with plenty of extra time (I'd say give yourself an hour before your FTCAP session starts); you'll need to get your student ID picture taken and there are reps from PNC Bank there so you can open a bank account, which also takes time. Those who arrived later had to do those things at lunchtime, which meant they had little time to eat.</p>
<p>Thanks G Dad.</p>
<p>SpringfieldMom, are you talking about on move-in day, or does this happen before then?</p>
<p>FTCAP days are beginning of May until the end of June--In the morning, they go over the results of the Math/English/Chemistry FTCAP tests (that your student takes online) and then in the afternoon you break out to your respective schools to select first semester courses.</p>
<p>what is FTCAP ? sorry for being dumb but..</p>
<p>q - it's all right here: <a href="http://www.psu.edu/dus/ftcap/%5B/url%5D">http://www.psu.edu/dus/ftcap/</a></p>
<p>do you also get you penn state acess account during this time?</p>
<p>You set up your PSU access account at FTCAP.</p>
<p>I recieved my postcard today in southeastern PA. I accepted my offer of admission January 15.</p>
<p>Looks like I'm in for a long wait then. Ugh getting all the way up there to do all this is not going to be easy on my wallet...</p>
<p>i received my post card today with an april 22 deadline. i also wrote and asked if i could do my visit in conjunction with LEAP which I'm going to go to. Haven't heard back yet</p>
<p>Hmm, I just got my postcard today, with an April 17th deadline. I'm going to hopefully get it all done tonight.</p>
<p>My deadline was April 16.</p>
<p>my deadline originally apparently was april 11 but they scratched through that and put april 22.</p>
<p>S had an April 11th deadline. He did it yesterday, Sunday, April 6th, and it really did take about 3.5 hours. The only think I remember him saying was math was easy for the 1st 55 questions then the next 20 were difficult.</p>