<p>you would really choose cmu over emory?</p>
<p>I got into the Drama Program… I’m a techie… I loved UPenn and my dad went there for grad school, so I’m still really hoping to get in… How’s UPenn’s Polysci?</p>
<p>Well I’ve heard about Emory’s notorious Greek scene, and I’d rather be around nerds than partiers. I don’t know, people have been elusive about Emory’s partying, so I’ll just have to visit.</p>
<p>@Zeppo58 - I think all of Penn’s liberal arts majors are pretty good. Their English (which I’m also interested in) isn’t bad either. Oh btw I do theater! I’m more of a performer than a technie though ;)</p>
<p>i have lots of asian friends and i love them…but 200 more asians means 200 less whities like me :(</p>
<p>17% is pretty lame compared to 7-8% of HYS (sorry P, you fail), and even places like Columbia are 9%. If Brown crosses the single-digit barrier then that’s the last straw. Jihad on Eric Furda.</p>
<p>Hmm I feel like we need 2 separate threads…one for Penn applicants to celebrate the high acceptance rate and one for Penn students and alumni to bemoan it… ;)</p>
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Better than it’s ever been, and much improved over a decade ago.
Source: err…Penn polysci dept…d’oh!</p>
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<p>when you say “sorry P,” are you talking about penn or princeton??</p>
<p>Obviously Princeton</p>
<p>acceptance rates do not necessarily correlate to selectivity (ie the application pool may not be as strong, etc).</p>
<p>How many students does Wharton normally admit?
Even though the overall rate went up. seeing just how selective wharton is made my stomach churl. I think I’ll be waiting on the snail to bring me my mail</p>
<p>Dang…I was deferred ED Wharton. Kinda bitter, but still love Penn.
SIGH Hopefully less people applied Wharton RD -_-</p>
<p>ilovebagels: You need to have more faith in Furda. He did something very intelligent, which is to widen the applicant fronts in the midwest, south, and California, as stated in the article.</p>
<p>This is smart for two reasons:
- it ostensibly reduces acceptances in the Northeast, which makes Penn appear more selective.
- it increases exposure to Penn in areas that produce relatively few applicants each year: places like Texas, Florida, California, and the deep south.</p>
<p>This will lead to larger waves of applications in the coming years. I guarantee you that Brown will REEL after this year. People do not perceive it as selective as its new numbers seem to advertise, and potential applicants will likely be disheartened, and fail to apply.</p>
<p>I don’t see how just a 0.1% rise in acceptance rates degrades the university. As noted, the quality of the applicants increased and about the same number as last year were admitted. Most people that apply to UPenn (discluding those that apply because it is “easy” to get accepted) apply for the big-university feel amongst the Ivies. I like the fact that Penn is able to admit more students than the others; it makes the experience more real and further aids the networking that the Ivy expereince is infamous for.</p>
<p>infamous? :p</p>
<p>It’s not that the 0.1% rise in acceptance rate makes Penn look bad. It’s how Penn has fared relative to its peers. Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth all had double-digit % gains in applicants, which means they will have significant decreases in acceptance rate.</p>
<p>I hope so, muertapablo. Your streed (and by “street” I mean “CC”) cred has gone up by correctly knowing the final acceptance rate. But I guess we will have to wait a year to see what happens to Brown, and what happens to Penn. As always, I wish the very best for Penn, and harm on Brown and everyone else ;)</p>
<p>Who thinks Penn is easy? It’s just as selective as Columbia/Brown/Dartmouth - although after this admissions season, it seems as though Penn has lagged by a year. Next year, however, I expect it to fill in the gap.</p>
<p>It is ranked higher than all three, after all.</p>
<p>I don’t get it. Doesn’t accepting more students from these regions (ie increasing the acceptance rate) make us look less selective and less impressive…</p>
<p>We didn’t accept more students overall (the rate only increased by .1%, recall), we simply evened out the playing field.</p>
<p>So, instead of accepting 20 students from Florida and 300 from NY, Penn accepts 40 from Florida and 280 from NY. Still accepting the same OVERALL number, but the distribution is different. This makes Penn appear even more selective in areas where it was already extremely popular - New York, Boston, Baltimore - and increases exposure at schools where it had been relatively unknown - i.e., the entire south and midwest.</p>
<p>Does this make sense to you? This is very similar to what Furda did at Columbia. Mind you, it can take a while for this sort of thing to pan out; I believe Columbia only saw the upswing after about 6 or 7 years. But things are different now. High School students are hyper-aware of things like US News (where Penn continues to kick butt) and “brand names.” Penn is definitely benefiting from both of these.</p>
<p>Columbia has a better brand name (there is no Columbia State) and NYC. Furda just happened to be there when NYC got hot, and would never grasp the need for Penn and Philadelphia to market themselves in a way Columbia never had to. Penn and Philly are awesome, but it’s not taken as a given in the same way it is for NYC</p>