<p>I'm well aware that you can only apply to one school of the few available at Penn, but are the people who read the applications different for each school?</p>
<p>For example, will a person reading an application for Wharton also be reading applications for SAS?</p>
<p>Edit: *question applies to most colleges as well</p>
<p>i think there are 2 or 3 readings....but i heard most important person is ur regional coordinator, he/she advocates for u....and obviously he/she reads ppl in the whole region even applying different schools...then she refers ur app to the specific school for reivew</p>
<p>My main concern is that I know certain more qualified students from my year will be applying to Penn as well, but they are applying to Wharton so will they be comparing our applications or will they be in separate pools?</p>
<p>I remember during the ED process, someone familiar with Penn admissions said that the application process goes like this. The regional rep reads and then decides who they want to bring to the entire committee, then the entire committee votes and then Eric Furda get final veto or acceptance power. I am not sure but this was explained during an ED thread. Good Luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Goes like this from what I remember:</p>
<p>Your regional adcom reads it and says yes or no.
If yes you go onto the committee decision where your regional adcom makes a case for you and if they are unanimous yes then you're in. If not, then your adcom has a couple "freebies" where he/she can take you anyway.
Last hope -> Furda can choose to accept if you get denied at committee and your adcom doesn't pull you in.</p>
<p>This thread is stressing me out hahaha. Oh dear.</p>
<p>So if one gets deferred ED did that mean my regional director advocated for me but the committee said defer?</p>