<p>How does the Admissions process work at Penn?<br>
I read the A for Admissions by Michele Hernandez and described the process for Dartmouth. At Dartmouth, one officer reads it and gives auto rejects and admits.. then the rest go to another officer who reads it... then to the dean of admissions. Is it how it works for Penn?</p>
<p>i don't like the idea of auto rejects...makes me nervous</p>
<p>I'm sure almost everyone who's a reg on the Penn forum will NOT be auto-rejected.
Judging from the 'chance me' threads, I'd say we all got a pretty good chance.</p>
<p>auto-rejects..even I do not understand the concept of auto-rejects.
They do atleast go through all the information at once...n then if they reject it should not be termed as "auto-reject" in my opinion!</p>
<p>I asked once before and this is what I was told. Your regional admissions officer will read your application and take notes. Then he or she will present you to a committee with other officers. But the 'accepts/rejects' are pretty much decided by the regional officer, and only the 'maybes' are seriously discussed in the meeting (where the other officers will also bring up their own 'maybes'), and then some of those kids will be accepted/rejected while most will probably be waitlisted. However, I'm pretty sure rejected kids get a second read-over.</p>
<p>And yeah, I agree with pretfun. It really isn't an auto-reject because it's not like there's a "oh, you didn't get **** on the SAT so we're not even reading the rest of your application" or any other qualifier like that in Penn admissions.</p>
<p>by auto-rejects, it probably means about kids who have like a 1400 out of 2400 on their SAT and a 3.0 gpa and no hooks. Those are probably auto rejects.</p>