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Spend a Summer Day gives thousands a close-up of campus

This year’s Spend a Summer Day program will bring thousands of potential students and parents to Penn State campuses for an up-close look at what Penn State has to offer.

Summer tour guide Shivani Patel, a senior, led a group of parents and potential students around Penn State's University Park campus for Spend A Summer Day 2013 on July 29. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – This year’s Spend a Summer Day program will bring thousands of potential students and parents to campus for an up-close look at what Penn State has to offer.

Posted at Shortlidge and Curtin roads, Carol Stokes helped Tanya Woods and her daughter Malia, of Long Island, N.Y., find their way around campus July 29 during Spend a Summer Day 2013 at University Park. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

A summer tour guide snapped a shot of a family with the Nittany Lion outside Eisenhower Auditorium on July 29 during Spend a Summer Day 2013. A fleet of buses hauled potential students and their parents from the Bryce Jordan Center to Eisenhower Auditorium, where activities kicked off that morning.  Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Parents and potential Penn State students filled Eisenhower Auditorium to hear a presentation July 29 on admissions and financial aid during Spend a Summer Day 2013 at University Park.  Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Graphic design professor Lanny Sommese spoke with Jenny and Dan Gerber and their son Jake, of Elizabethtown, Pa., on July 29 at a design suite in the Borland Building during Spend a Summer Day 2013. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Summer tour guide Shivani Patel, a senior, led a group of parents and potential students around Penn State's University Park campus for Spend A Summer Day 2013 on July 29. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Walter and Denise Thomas and their children Meghan and Ryan toured the Rec Hall Fitness Center on July 29 during Spend a Summer Day 2013 at Penn State's University Park campus. The Thomas family resides in Conneaut Lake, Pa.  Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Posted at Shortlidge and Curtin roads, Carol Stokes helped Tanya Woods and her daughter Malia, of Long Island, N.Y., find their way around campus July 29 during Spend a Summer Day 2013 at University Park. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

A summer tour guide snapped a shot of a family with the Nittany Lion outside Eisenhower Auditorium on July 29 during Spend a Summer Day 2013. A fleet of buses hauled potential students and their parents from the Bryce Jordan Center to Eisenhower Auditorium, where activities kicked off that morning.  Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Parents and potential Penn State students filled Eisenhower Auditorium to hear a presentation July 29 on admissions and financial aid during Spend a Summer Day 2013 at University Park.  Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Graphic design professor Lanny Sommese spoke with Jenny and Dan Gerber and their son Jake, of Elizabethtown, Pa., on July 29 at a design suite in the Borland Building during Spend a Summer Day 2013. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Summer tour guide Shivani Patel, a senior, led a group of parents and potential students around Penn State's University Park campus for Spend A Summer Day 2013 on July 29. Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Walter and Denise Thomas and their children Meghan and Ryan toured the Rec Hall Fitness Center on July 29 during Spend a Summer Day 2013 at Penn State's University Park campus. The Thomas family resides in Conneaut Lake, Pa.  Credit: Bill Zimmerman / Penn State. Creative Commons

Spend a Summer Day sessions kicked off on July 26 when 786 prospective students and 1,342 family members visited University Park, the largest single-day turnout since 2009, according to Undergraduate Admissions. On July 29, 726 students and 1,100 family members attended, and sessions continue Aug. 1, 2 and 5. The parent-student total over the five sessions is expected to be more than 8,000.

Spend a Summer Day is a campus open house for future first-year students to learn about admissions, student financial aid, academics, housing and residence life, and student activities at Penn State.Undergraduate Admissions carries out Spend a Summer Day with 138 alumni volunteers, 80 admissions staffers and 55 student summer tour guides. Seven to 10 blue Penn State buses make multiple trips to haul visitors from the Bryce Jordan Center to Eisenhower Auditorium during the morning of each session.All of the University’s undergraduate campuses host Spend a Summer Day events. For a campus-by-campus listing, go to http://admissions.psu.edu/sasd/dates.cfm.For more information on Spend a Summer Day, visit http://sasd.psu.edu.

Last Updated May 12, 2016

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