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Just wondering, is there a third wave in Penn's admission process?
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<p>Third? Whatever happened to the second? :(</p>
<p>I think i figured it out- the guy who answers the phone is actually the entire admission committee; he answers the phone numbers listed for each individual transfer dean and associates and will never let you actually speak to an "admission officer" because they don't exist. that is why it is taking so long, between answering all our phone calls and dismissing every question there is no time for him to make his decisions. i think he is also the one who puts them into the computer- they go up after office hours because he has to stay late for those and he knows he would just get interrupted by the phone if he did it during normal office hours. it just makes sense.</p>
<p>dont worry. you guys will most likely get a letter in the mail either today, tomorrow, or maybe wednesday.</p>
<p>I just called and the lady said if you didnt get the online decision yet, either A) you didnt give penn your email in the app and you will hear by postal mail or B) you will hear by June 2nd, and also, there is no waitlist for penn transfer, only acceptance or rejection...this is all according to what i heard, if i understood correctly...personally not heard anything yet</p>
<p>You gotta be kidding me. June 2nd? Argh. I'm pretty sure most of us gave penn our email...but I guess there are some that didnt apply online. Oh well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information though.</p>
<p>Isn't the deadline for a response from most schools June 1st? What is Penn DOING!?</p>
<p>Those of you who received a response via postal mail and not online--did you apply online, and did you submit an e-mail address? Penn is insisting that they only post online decisions for those who submitted an e-mail address.</p>
<p>you guys, there must be a waitling list. a lot of people who were accepted early in the process--including myself--will be relinquishing their spots. i genuinely hope you all get the nod</p>
<p>I think there has to be a waitlist also.</p>
<p>if somebody could pull common data set information on penn, i imagine it would reflect precisely this.</p>
<p>about the email thing, I called Penn on Friday and double checked that they had my correct email address... I guess I'll hear by June 2 :-</p>
<p>catcher, I couldn't find the common data set for Penn when I looked several weeks ago.</p>
<p>well, any faith in previous statistical trends and the laws of odds will suggest that if they are accepting a fairly sizeable transfer class, a fairly signifcant fraction of their acceptance pool will reject their offer -- a fact which would necessitate the use of a waitlist.</p>
<p>Why most colleges, even the 'elite' ones like Penn, force their applicants to speculate over such important issues? Why cant they release official statements that clearly define the process? Its like they want us to suffer.</p>
<p>Dear Penn,</p>
<p>Please talk to Columbia. They will teach you how properly to run a transfer application process. </p>
<p>Love,
Layla</p>
<p>It's fairly obvious what Penn's strategy is: the applicants they least expect to have contending options (other than Penn) are issued decisions towards the end of the process, whereby forcing them to committ in a considerably minimized window of opportunity</p>
<p>other schools which are more selective -- ala Columbia/Brown, etc. -- do not have to fear the possibility of a significant proportion of their acceptees rejecting their offer.</p>
<p>That's my theory also. They could just do what more selective schools do: reject the students they think will reject them.</p>
<p>well i got waitlisted by duke and columbia, and yet to hear from UPenn....idk what we can deduce from that</p>
<p>and there are a bunch of other pppl that got waitlisted by brown or columbia that haven't heard</p>
<p>and sanguine, had stats for harvard/yale/columbia, and got rejected on the 11th, so maybe the waves were random???????</p>
<p>perhaps. at the end of the day the process can be fairly fickle, as evidenced by a number of individual's personal histories.</p>
<p>the worst thing you can do, however, is believe that you will be doing anything but returning to your home institution. that's what i did, even as I heard from really excellent universities.</p>
<p>if penn comes through (and I hope it does) it should represent an unexpected but wonderful change of plans.</p>
<p>did ppl get their mail yet today....i better be hearing today?</p>
<p>lol I just woke up to see if there were any news from Penn in the board. Better be some letters today.</p>