Hey everyone, I found out some information today.
Yesterday, I left a voicemail with one of the people involved in one of the graduate programs at Penn State, and I had mentioned that I was on the Hold List. This morning, he called me back, and he was surprised that we hadn't been notified about this year's situation. It turns out that instead of the typical one-third of people who accept the original acceptances sent out by the school, one-half of them did. Given that, they are way over the number of students they expected to have in the coming class.
I just wanted to pass this along to all of you. It's a bummer, to be sure, but at least now we know! I'll be competing for the Class of 2013 now, but good luck to the rest of you!