<p>Take a look at this reasoning:</p>
<p>ED Applicants approx: 4200</p>
<p>Time it takes for them to make a decision per applicant: 2 min.</p>
<p>4200 * 2 = 8400</p>
<p>8400/60 = 140 hours to make all the decisions.</p>
<p>Penn admissions office is open 8 hours a day.</p>
<p>140/8 = 17.5 number of days to make all the (ED) decisions.</p>
<p>My question to you: HOW DO THEY DO IT???</p>
<p>make a wish foundation lol</p>
<p>they have more than enough time</p>
<p>did you take into account how many people are working at the same time?</p>
<p>it's not that only 1 person works in the admissions office!</p>
<p>That is true, but they usually make the decisions in a group. (they vote for admit or reject) That takes 2 min.</p>
<p>A vote, really?</p>
<p>Ah, how Survivor-esque.</p>
<p>Aren't some people auto-rejects? Like they're thrown out before they even get past the regional director or they get like..10 seconds in the main office? I wonder how many people are included in that.</p>
<p>AH. That's so scary.</p>
<p>I doubt many are that bad.</p>
<p>I bet about 10% are. CC isn't exactly a good representation of applicants.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's one of the things that makes me feel a little better.</p>
<p>I feel like, where Penn's normal ED rate is ~30%, maybe around 40% of the Penn ED applicants on CC will get in ?</p>
<p>like i said, i hope they're having a GREAT 2 min while reading my app!</p>
<p>I think closer to 50% will get in paro...wishful thinking? Lol who knows</p>
<p>jyankee, the percentages were with<em>one</em>voice, not me. </p>
<p>but yeah, i like that number too. lol</p>
<p>that's really weird lol...I somehow saw your name and his percentages...anyway lol...I don't have any strange disorders...honestly</p>
<p>They dont read ur app for 2 min. The regional director reads it (maybe 15-30 mins). They go to the meeting. They pitch for u in about 2 minutes....and a decision is made.</p>
<p>pretty lame....but whatever....If they don't want me, its their loss</p>
<p>Actually, I looked at the Columbia ED forum for last year, Class of 2010, and towards the end, someone posted everyone's usernames and whether they were Acc/Def/Rej.</p>
<p>31 of 59 were Accepted = ~50%
17 of 59 were Deferred = ~30%
11 of 59 were Rejected = ~20%</p>
<p>Maybe CCers are just overachievers.</p>
<p>if ppl come on a discussion board to discuss colleges, they are obviously really interested, so I would assume most of the ppl on CC are above-average candidates for colleges...</p>
<p>I'm actually sort of worried now, thinking back on the amazing stats many people had in those stat threads...</p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>That's kinda cool, to think about half of us will get accepted.</p>
<p>what about the other half? OH NO!</p>
<p>lol i KNOW!
the other half... =(</p>