Admission Rates by Undergrad School at Penn

[cavs2012]

<p>Does anyone know what the admit rates are for CAS vs. Wharton, etc.? I'm applying ED to CAS, but I figure a lot of the early applicants are for Wharton, which could mean CAS has a higher admit rate than the overall 26% for ED.</p>

[mrunderdog]

<p>Most of the Early applicants and Regular applicants are to the College, I would estimate around 70-75% are, while the rest are Wharton/Engineering/Nursing/Dual Degree.</p>

<p>Wharton is about 17-20% ED, CAS is about 24-25% ED, Engineering is 28-30% ED, while Nursing is a lot higher for ED. Overall 26%</p>

<p>Wharton is about 6% RD, CAS is about 9% RD, Engineering is about 15% RD, and Nursing is about 25-30% RD. Overall 9.5%</p>

<p>Overall Acceptance rate for both ED and RD is 12%</p>

[45_Percenter]

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@shaheirunderdog

Nursing is about 25-30% RD.

It’s not that high. For the Class of 2014, the overall acceptance rate for the Nursing School was 20%, and the RD rate would have been even lower:</p>

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**Decisions sent to Nursing hopefuls </p>

<p>Keeping with nursing schools around the country, the class of 2014 heard from admissions Friday**</p>

<p>By Brooke Huestis · February 20, 2010, 4:45 pm</p>

<p>The Nursing School continues its trend of selectivity.</p>

<p>Nursing admissions decisions were sent out to the class of 2014 Friday. Approximately 20-percent of the nearly 500 applicants were accepted, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.</p>

<p>Applications have increased 26-percent since last year.</p>

<p>As with Penn’s other undergraduate schools, the Nursing class of 2014 will be the most selective ever, Furda explained.</p>

<p>Unlike other applicants, however, nursing students do not have to wait until April 1st to find out whether or not they have been accepted.</p>

<p>Penn notifies the Nursing applicants of their admission status over a month before College, Engineering and Wharton applicants because other nursing schools send decisions in late February.</p>

<p>“We don’t want to be at a competitive disadvantage,” Furda explained.

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<p>[Daily</a> Pennsylvanian :: Decisions sent to Nursing hopefuls](<a href=“http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2010/02/decisions_sent_to_nursing_hopefuls]Daily”>Decisions sent to Nursing hopefuls | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>

[falafel_1]

<p>Sorry to dig up an old thread, but here are the results of an hour or two of research. Might be useful for the future.</p>

<p>This [Daily</a> Pennsylvanian article](<a href=“http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2003/04/admission_rates_drop_at_penn_ivies]Daily”>http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2003/04/admission_rates_drop_at_penn_ivies) dated 2003-04-11 has numbers for the class of 2007, with a 20.5% overall admit rate:

All in all, 19.4 percent of College applicants, 15.5 percent of Wharton applicants, 28.1 percent of Engineering applicants and 42.6 percent of Nursing applicants were admitted.

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<p>[This</a> site](<a href=“http://ivysuccess.com/penn.html]This”>ivysuccess.com is for sale) quotes the same numbers for the class of 2007, adding:

About 35 percent of applicants to the College or the Engineering School were accepted, while 26.7 percent of Wharton applicants and 50.9 percent of Nursing applicants were accepted.

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<p>[This</a> site](<a href=“http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admission-statistics-2009/]This”>http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admission-statistics-2009/) has some numbers for the class of 2009:

The Wharton School admitted 484 applicants for an acceptance rate of 13.6% (down from 15.2% last year). The School of Nursing admitted 123 applicants for an acceptance rate of 41.8%…

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<p>[This</a> post on CC](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/865441-wharton-early-decision-admission-rate.html#post9722724]This”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/865441-wharton-early-decision-admission-rate.html#post9722724) states with source an interview with Lee Stetson (then admissions director at Penn) that Wharton’s admission rate is 7-8% as of April 2006. I believe this number is for class of 2010.</p>

<p>[Businessweek’s</a> profile](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?) says Wharton’s undergrad admit rate is 10% (I’m assuming this is for class of 2014, since they report Penn’s overall admit rate to be 14%).</p>

<p>[This</a> SEAS page](<a href=“Marketing and Communications |”>About) says that for the class of 2014, SEAS admitted 811 out of 4791 students, for an admit rate of 17%. 410 enrolled for a yield of 51%.</p>

<p>[This</a> CC thread](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1103529-upenn-seas-early-decision-acceptance-rate.html]This”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1103529-upenn-seas-early-decision-acceptance-rate.html) states that the overall SEAS (Engineering) admit rate is about 16% as of 2011, for class of 2014. </p>

<p>[The</a> SEAS website](<a href=“Undergraduate Admissions |”>FAQ) says there were 6,141 freshman applications for the class of 2015, and the average class size is 410. So an admission rate of about 16% gives 983 admits, which would get to the average class size with a 42% yield. Sounds kinda reasonable?</p>

<p>According to [this</a> CC thread](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1177399-released-wharton-admissions-statistics.html]this”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1177399-released-wharton-admissions-statistics.html), for the class of 2015, out of a 12.3% overall admit rate, Wharton’s overall was 8%, College overall 10%. Overall RD was 10%, College RD 9%, Wharton RD 7%.</p>

<p>Other tidbits:
Wharton Class of 2015 matriculants: 527 <a href=“Source”>url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/life-at-wharton/class-profile.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[45_Percenter]

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@falafel

[This</a> site](<a href=“http://ivysuccess.com/penn.html]This”>ivysuccess.com is for sale) quotes the same numbers for the class of 2007, adding:

About 35 percent of applicants to the College or the Engineering School were accepted, while 26.7 percent of Wharton applicants and 50.9 percent of Nursing applicants were accepted.

Just to clarify, that second set of numbers was for Early Decision.</p>