63.3% overall yield for Penn Class of 2016

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**Penn's overall yield remains constant for fifth consecutive year</p>

<p>Regular, early decision yields were 63.3 percent for Class of 2016</p>

<p>By Lois Lee · May 10, 2012, 6:01 pm**</p>

<p>For the fifth consecutive year, Penn’s overall yield — the percentage of students who have decided to matriculate to the Class of 2016 — has remained constant.</p>

<p>The yield for both the regular and early decision admits was 63.3 percent this year, similar to the yield rate of 62.7 percent for the Class of 2015.</p>

<p>A greater proportion of the regular decision admits will be matriculating — 46 percent, an increase from last year’s 44 percent.</p>

<p>Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said this increase in regular decision yield did not affect overall yield due to early decision numbers.</p>

<p>“We had a deflationary effect on the overall yield because we accepted fewer College and Nursing students in the early decision round,” he said.

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<p>The rest of the story can be found here:</p>

<p>The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Penn's overall yield remains constant for fifth consecutive year</p>

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<p>Isn’t this kind of bad news for the university? I’ve heard that they’ve been trying really hard to increase their yield recently.</p>

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<p>They DID increase the RD yield, but accepted fewer applicants through the ultra-high-yield (virtually 100%) of ED. I’d say it looks pretty good–trends are definitely moving in the right direction, from Penn’s perspective.</p>

<p>Increasing overall yield is a long-term process, and if they had accepted the same number of ED applicants as they did last year, overall yield would have been even higher (as Furda points out).</p>

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<p>Yield would be higher if SAT scores dropped, as it might be the case at some other schools.</p>

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<p>To be honest, I actually expected yields to go down since Wharton was always the powerhouse for Wall St jobs and I assumed the popularity of finance careers had declined.</p>

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<p>Ooops. The Daily Pennsylvanian changed the link on us–here’s the new link to the complete article:</p>

<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Penn’s overall yield remains constant for fifth consecutive year (revised link)](<a href=“http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/05/penns_overall_yield_remains_constant_for_fifth_consecutive_year]The”>Penn's overall yield remains constant for fifth consecutive year | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>

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<p>The target size is 2,420. The University admitted a total of 3,846 students to the Class of 2016. (getting these numbers from the past articles) 63.3% of that is like 2435 students. Is getting off the waitlist hopeless? :/</p>

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<p>^ Not necessarily. Last year, the freshman class ended up with 2467 students, including 56 from the waitlist, even though the original target was 2420. There’s usually some “melting” of the initial class as other schools (e.g., HYPS) take people off of their watilists who previously had accepted Penn’s offer, so it’s possible that Penn will accept some applicants from the waitlist to have a bit of a cushion against “summer melt,” as it’s commonly called.</p>

<p>We should start hearing within the next couple of weeks if there is some waitlist action.</p>

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<p>Last year I think they were notified starting May 19th… thank goodness that’s ap exams but dang im nervous as ever. I wonder if I should contact them again…</p>