CAS acceptance rate - step right up!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I have found the overall acceptance rate to each and all of the undergraduate schools at Penn. Check it out:</p>

<p>Source A:
<a href="http://www.college.upenn.edu/admissions/admissions.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.college.upenn.edu/admissions/admissions.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>"Each College class is composed of approximately 1,500 freshmen selected from over 14,000 applicants."</p>

<p>So, we know that there are just over 14,000 apps. Let's say it's 14,050.</p>

<p>Source B:
Admission</a> rate drops to record low 15.9% - News</p>

<p>"The number of students admitted decreased modestly from last year for the College of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Wharton, with the three schools accepting 2,257, 762 and 471 students, respectively. The School of Nursing accepted slightly more applicants this year, totaling 120."</p>

<p>2257 were accepted from both ED and RD.</p>

<p>2257/14050=.160, or a 16% acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>y does this matter (gdj on doing you research props tho)</p>

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<p>Penn is known for rarely releasing admissions information about individual colleges.</p>

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<p>Yes, you're wrong. There were 22,000 total, and 14,000 to CAS. That website is for specifically for CAS-related admissions information.</p>

<p>Also, the acceptance rate would be MUCH higher in your scenario, think about it. Are you familiar with Penn's stats (not meant to be condescending, I actually want to know)?</p>

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<p>^yeah i just deleted my post LOL. sorry.</p>

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<p>hmmmmm so i guess that means since ~30% of the freshman class is ED, [2257-(2257 x .3)]/(140500) = approx. 11.2% RD acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>okay actually NEVERMIND penn doesn't give ED rates for specific schools. </p>

<p>LOL -_____- ..</p>

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<p>Actually, the article does state that the acceptance rate at CAS was 11% for RD.</p>

<p>This is VERY interesting, considering that Penn fills 50% of its total class during ED. Wharton's ED rate is lower than the others, which means that Engineering/Nursing must have an astronomical acceptance rate for ED.</p>

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<p>ive actually heard in multiple places (like the DP) that ED is 50% of the class</p>

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<p>Anyway you look at it, given the data up there, engineering must have a high acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>it does - the yield for engineering is very poor</p>

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<p>Yeah, Penn really needs to do something about that school. It's not nearly as good as Penn's other offerings. It should be cut down, with the remainder absorbed into CAS, similar to the system at Dartmouth.</p>

<p>Caltech, MIT, Cornell, and Columbia are just much better in that field.</p>

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<p>ok, that's just ignorant. Penn SEAS > Columbia, and even Cornell (despite the conventional wisdom). More to the point, they don't care that much about the yield, and they don't make those decisions based on the undergraduate school - it's all about faculty research and graduate programs, areas where Penn SEAS is on top of its game. </p>

<p>The yield's not great, but most any other college in the country would kill for it. the college's yield's not perfect either - it just shows you how crazy high the Wharton yield is.</p>

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<p>That's true (Wharton's yield is around 75% or something insane), but Wharton is also much smaller than the College. The College's yield hovers around the true yield, while Wharton offsets engineering.</p>

<p>None of that statistical yield stuff really interests me. I would like to know, however, how Penn SEAS> than Columbia. Specifically with regards to student talent.</p>

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<p>None of the statistical stuff interests you? Nice going troll. Saying that the college hovers around the "true" yield is statistically meaningless - with 1500 of the 2500 students in each graduation year, the college numbers compose most of the "true" yield that you're talking about.</p>

<p>Penn SEAS and Columbia SEAS are by and large a similar pool of students. Penn SEAS students don't get stuck with that archaic core though...</p>

<p>mp, from all of your past posts, it looks like you get hung up on rankings all too often</p>

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<p>Can't deny the charges, mattwonder. I have a horrible inferiority complex that may never be resolved. Occasionally my love for knowledge will temporarily subdue it, but it always crawls back.</p>

<p>The only real cure may be to ban myself from CC, but then admissions season rolls around again and I find myself glued to the internet again. god damn it.</p>

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<p>muerteapablo, do you drink?</p>

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<p>muerteapablo, do you have any friends?</p>

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<p>I drink seldom. And yes, I have many friends, although they all (understandably) disapprove of my obsession with admissions data.</p>

<p>I feel I owe it to the Penn community, however, to fight for their informational correction.</p>

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<p>muerteapablo, did your parents love you? or were they admissions-obsessed people who trolled forums and trashed schools that are often considered better than penn because they did slightly worse than penn in the us news rankings?</p>