29% of early app students admitted

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<p>Issue date: 1/12/07 Section: News
29% of early app students admitted
Admit rate up from last year due to smaller applicant pool
Jon Meza
PrintEmail Article Tools Page 1 of 1 Penn has accepted 29 percent of early applicants for the Class of 2011, a group that will make up about 48 percent of the total class.</p>

<p>Last year, the University accepted 28 percent of its early applicants, and this year’s slight rise in the acceptance rate comes in conjunction with a 2.5 percent decrease in early decision applications.</p>

<p>A record-breaking 9.5 percent of the admitted class will be international students, with strong representation from Canada, India, England and Hong Kong.</p>

<p>Accepted students from within the country currently represent 47 of the 50 states.</p>

<p>The number of accepted minority students dropped from last year’s record-breaking levels. The number of Latino students dropped from 89 to 71. Seventy-four black students were admitted this year, compared to 81 for the Class of 2010. There were also 239 Asian students and four Native Americans admitted.</p>

<p>Penn Dean of Admission Lee Stetson characterized the newly admitted students as “the strongest group ever admitted early to Penn.”</p>

<p>Those admitted to the Class of 2011 have an average SAT Critical Reasoning score of 697, compared to 686 from the class of 2010. Math scores rose from 715 to 722, and the average writing score was 705, up from 695 last year.</p>

<p>In reference to their academic strength, University President Amy Gutmann said that the recently admitted students “humble all of us.”</p>

<p>Sally Rubenstone, counselor with the group College Confidential, said she has seen Penn’s image rise among perspective applicants in recent years.</p>

<p>“Students who used to come to me only wanting to know about Harvard, Princeton and Yale now include Penn on their list,” Rubenstone said.</p>

<p>Stetson discussed joint traveling efforts and a recruiting program with Duke, Harvard, Georgetown and Stanford universities - which he estimates has attracted 40,000 more parents and students to the event than in past years - as possible reasons for the rise in applicant strength.</p>

<p>Recently accepted Penn students, seniors Ben Friedman and Sona Parikh from Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, Mich., both mentioned the urban Philadelphia campus as a major factor in their decision to apply early to Penn.</p>

<p>Parikh also said that the broad spectrum of academic programs offered by Penn suited her well because she is not sure what she wants to major in yet.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/01/12/News/29.Of.Early.App.Students.Admitted-2628590.shtml?norewrite200701120656&sourcedomain=www.dailypennsylvanian.com&mkey=2491306[/url]”>http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/01/12/News/29.Of.Early.App.Students.Admitted-2628590.shtml?norewrite200701120656&sourcedomain=www.dailypennsylvanian.com&mkey=2491306</a></p>

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<p><a href="http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper882/documents/17xbe56s.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper882/documents/17xbe56s.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>this is a link to the actual newspaper post...pay attention to the stats given for each school</p>

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<p>Yeah, you guys had it easy this year!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the link.</p>

<p>I've always been curious about the breakdown of scores between the undergraduate schools. Penn seems to guard this data like it was the Coke Formula. Does anyone have any specific data ("Nursing is lower, Wharton is higher, and Engineering is higher in math" does not qualify as "data")? Does Cornell also play this game?</p>

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<p>Yaaaaaaay, I'm happy and proud to be part of THE "the strongest group ever admitted early to Penn."
Dean Stetson said it himself!!!!</p>

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<p>lol yeah, I smiled a little bit when I saw that also</p>

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<p>how do we find out about the breakdown to each school? wharton, cas...etc</p>

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<p>They don't release that info.</p>

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<p>yea they do....thats da second link i sent</p>

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<p>That explains my deferral!!! The took in a record number of internationals and fewer URM's this year. Perhaps they'll take in more URM's RD and I'll get accepted in the RD round. I don't think I want to go to Penn anymore, though. Decisons, decisions....</p>

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<p>^quiet child...speak only when ur spoken too</p>

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<p>"Yaaaaaaay, I'm happy and proud to be part of THE "the strongest group ever admitted early to Penn."
Dean Stetson said it himself!!!!"</p>

<p>He says that every year!</p>

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<p>lol haha yea i think so</p>

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<p>hey BLAAKFIRE1015, we're posting both on the studenttalk and CC at the same time! HA!</p>

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<p>lol haha....dude do you have a aim screen name</p>

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<p>I don't see the stats for each school..</p>

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<p>ya...blakefire...that link just took me to the dailypennsylvanian newspaper and theres not stats for each indiv school on there</p>

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<p>Oh wait, I see it now. But no percentages?</p>

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<p>Penn does not give out admit stats for the induvidual schools. They want to stress that all the schools are equally selective and want to encourage applicants to apply to the college that suits them best, and not the easiest one to get into.</p>

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<p>Dulce you do realize that if you end up going to Penn, everybody on this forum is going to hate you and spread all the bad things you've said about Penn to others? At this point I think it's best that you just stay with Michigan.</p>