<p>I'd like to hear the explanation for the reduction in enrollment.</p>
<p>There were 3622 admits (with no final word on whether there was any resort to the waitlist.)</p>
<p>There were 2,366 who accepted the offer to enroll, which is 180 less than the 2,566 matriculants for the Class of 2009.</p>
<p>Again assuming zero use of the waitlist, this means that the yield rate was nearly 66%, close behind the 68% yield rate at Princeton,within the Ivies.</p>
<p>Hey everyone..am the new kid on the block..(literally) lol....i am a highschool senior student and i am deeply in love with Upenn...so i will be spending alot of time here reading what you all have to say...and would love to recieve some tips and anything thats helpful. lol thank you.</p>
<p>Read some important threads to get a better feel for Penn. Don't literally read every page on this forum because truthfully some of it is useless and doesn't affect you. Such as the "what are my chances" threads.</p>
<p>thank you lol</p>
<p>no problem.</p>
<p>Just a question to throw out to you guys. By the time you guys graduate, how many APs will you guys have taken? When I graduate, I would have taken 17 AP classes, but my school is EXTREMELY competitive, and this doesn't seem to come to any shock to any admissions office, as seen from the acceptance of past graduates to their respective schools. We don't have as many Ivy students as I would expect from people who take that many APs. I know people who don't even take 5 APs and are accepted, and I know it's "whatever your school offers," but that's BS. If I were to move to the country and went to a crappy high school, I could be valedictorian and have the highest GPA and have all this leadership positions and get in easily, but at my school, with all the competition, it's as if Ivies don't care. but whatever, you guys don't haev to respond to what i've been rambling about. I just want to know about how many APs people who are interested in applying to UPenn are taking.</p>
<p>But how does taking a lot of APs an indicator of having success in the real world or more specifrically, getting accepted into an IVY? Not all schools offer that many APs and you can't make that kind of statement that if a student does not have a lot of APs that he or she should be looked at differently from a person who took 17. I have to say that's impressive.</p>
<p>[I know it's "whatever your school offers," but that's BS]</p>
<p>The Ivy League is big on fairness, especially for underprivileged kids in not so great schools... some times this may actually translate into unfairness for ppl who go to very competitive schools, but like the same thing with affirmative action? You can't please both sides... oh btw I will have 7 APs when I graduate...</p>
<p>My school only offers 3, but I will be taking 6 AP tests by the time I graduate.</p>
<p>I'll only have 4 APs, but my school doesn't offer much. I think I'm in a worse position that kids in both the underprivileged and overly-competitive schools because even though my school is in an extremely affluent area of New Jersey and gets a lot of funding, there is poor organization and too much money given to special ed, etc. Do they just look at economic status and GUESS, or do they REALLY see how much is offered?</p>
<p>Your GC should provide a school profile. They are just looking for "most rigorous".</p>
<p>Zero.</p>
<p>My country doesn't offer APs =p</p>
<p>IntlCher, does it offer A-Levels or IB? Because I'm in India right now, and thats what is primarily offered in terms of international boards. So I took up IB because its less "exam-oriented" and more application based.</p>
<p>But does that make their expectations higher of me? I'm a deferred UPenn-ie ;_;</p>
<p>Yup we have both A-Levels and IB and many many other pre-university programmes. American Degree Program, Canadian Pre-University, South Australian Matriculation, AUSMAT, plus plus.. I'm doing A-Levels.</p>
<p>I thought IB students would have an advantage.. I dunno.</p>
<p>Hey, does anyone have any numbers regarding what percent of applicants applied to wharton and what percent applied the college and the corresponding acceptance rates?</p>
<p>wharton is about 13%, i don't remember where i saw it, but if you look around this forum, it's there. </p>
<p>anyone know how many people applied to huntsman this year, and what past acceptance rates have been?</p>
<p>is that percent of applicants or acceptance rate? I'm most concerned with what percent of the total applicants reported applied to the college and the specific acceptance rate for that school, as that is where I applied, if anyone has any information on that.</p>