<p>I believe you have to miss 3 to score a 740 – and that assumes all 3 are “incorrect” responses to multiple choice questions as opposed to unanswered multiple choice or incorrect fill-in questions. I do agree, though, that, once you hit a certain level of proficiency, acing the section is more a matter of meticulousness than math talent. I’m skeptical about the claim that 1/2 of the entering Wharton class has an SAT I math score of 800; do you have a link? If so, that’s kind of amusing since business, unlike hard sciences, really requires relatively little in the way of math knowledge and ability – on a hard day you might have to use calculus. I’d think they’d do better to focus more on leadership talent and skills, and I have to believe they do.</p>
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<p>They do. A lot. It’s the first “Insider Tip.”</p>
<p>[Insider</a> Tips](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/UnderGrad/Next-Step/Insider-Tips.htm]Insider”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/UnderGrad/Next-Step/Insider-Tips.htm)</p>
<p>My daughter actually had this same dilemma for a while. On her college summer tour before senior year she completely fell in love with Yale. Although she didn’t love Penn or Philadelphia, she really liked the Huntsman Program and all it had to offer in IR. In fact, one of our Penn college tour guides was a Huntsman Scholar; he talked to us for an extra hour after the tour and took us to the special Huntsman admissions office and introduced my D to some of the folks. He repeatedly emphasized that her chances of being admitted to Huntsman would be much greater if she applied ED. </p>
<p>As we were leaving the campus my D made it clear that she wasn’t willing to throw all her eggs in the Huntsman basket, especially because she wasn’t as overall enamored with the school as she was with Yale (and a couple of others for that matter). Penn was the 11th school she had visited on that tour (two more to go) and she wasn’t feeling “the love” despite the allure of the Huntsman Program. </p>
<p>In the end, she decided to apply to Yale SCEA and was admitted. She’s a freshman and absolutely LOVES it!!! It is everything she had hoped it would be and more. She was still able to apply to a few other wonderful schools–to which she was fortunately admitted–but she ultimately decided to matriculate to the school she truly loved, Yale. She decided not to apply to Penn at all after her Yale SCEA admission. </p>
<p>Good luck! Still, it’s nice that you’re in the running for such tough decisions between such excellent schools.</p>
<p>First, you need to find out if you don’t get Huntsman, but your alternative (let’s say CAS), is that still binding? If not, then go ahead and apply to Huntsman because it would be significantly harder when you apply for it RD. As opposed to Yale, which states that EA and RD have the same chance, applying to Penn ED would give you a definite boost. Of course, that’s assuming you would take Huntsman over Yale.</p>
<p>Revival! I’m also deciding where to early apply for Class of 2015, Yale or Huntsman. I’m curious about this last post. Does an ED admission to Wharton but not Huntsman bind you to attendance at Wharton?</p>
<p>I applied to Huntsman ED and got rejected, and was accepted to Yale. The thing with Huntsman is, you have to realize they only accept 50 people a year and you have to bve fluent in one of the 11 listed languages to even apply. Once you do the math, you need to make you own decision on how “worth it” an application would be. I wish I had found out the only 50 get accepted part of this before I applied. Yeah, Wharton is phenomenal, but getting rejected once hurts your chances for your second choice, CAS or Wharton. I’m not sure enough of your background for any real comments on where you should apply,k but you seem to really like Yale, Yale is awesome, and here’s what I have to say for botrh. PM me if you want any other info.</p>