<p>I was looking at the wikipedia article for Penn (University</a> of Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia%5DUniversity">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania)), and under Admissions Selectivity, they list 15.9 as the university acceptance rate, but 11% as that for the College. So is this proof that wikipedia is unreliable, or is the CAS admissions rate really so low (like Stanford levels, right?)?
And since Wharton is undoubtedly even more selective, does the engineer and nursing school just accept over 20%?</p>
<p>I attended a Multicultural Scholars Weekend at Penn this week and was told that the acceptance rate was indeed only 11%</p>
<p>All I can vouch for is that yes, SEAS and nursing have significantly higher acceptance rates. As for the veracity of wikipedia, well, I have my doubts to say the least.</p>
<p>yeah it said 11% for CAS on my congratulatory letter from the dean of CAS</p>
<p>So do other schools (in particular HYPS) have significantly lower acceptance rates for their equivalents of our College? And sorry if I'm being stupid, I don't actually know if HYPS have equivalents.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that the 11% acceptance rate for the College was the RD rate. For ED, of course, the rate was significantly higher (in the range of the overall ED acceptance rate of 29%). Check your letter from the Dean of the College and see if that's in effect what it's really saying, i.e., that the acceptance rate for those admitted on March 31st (the RD rate) was 11%. The overall acceptance rate for the College is usually close to the overall acceptance rate for all undergrads, i.e., 16.4% this year. The rate for Wharton is lower (around 10%), and the rates for SEAS and Nursing are higher (20-25%).</p>
<p>Yes, do check the letter. If the College was indeed 11% for ED and RD combined, well then that would be swell.</p>
<p>^ and would have lowered Penn's overall admit rate significantly below 16.4% (which it did not).</p>
<p>However if Wikipedia says 11% then I am all in favor of applying Colbert's Principle of Wikiality ;)</p>