<p>have all of you called the school yet</p>
<p>i talked to my regional director, and honestly, she was very encouraging. she said i had put together an excellent app, and that both my essays and my recommendation were great. but she said others simply had stronger apps (i knew she was alluding to my horrible GPA). she said a strong mid year report would help me tremendously (it will be a key factor in my RD decision), and that in no way should i interprety my deferrance as a rejection.</p>
<p>im quite happy :)</p>
<p>The legacy office basically told my mom that if I want to get into Penn RD (after being deferred ED) I need to suck up and write a letter explaining how I still am very interested in attending Penn.
I lost my appetite for Penn since the day after the deferral, UMIch offered me a $60,000 scholarship (I had already been accepted to UMich one week before Penn made their decisions).
I ain't suck'n up to ANY school.
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<p>why are you posting here and bragging about your scholarship?</p>
<p>venkater... actually we should be thankfull; haha less competition!! anyone else not willing to "suck up" like I will?</p>
<p>please just write a letter saying your not interested... lol</p>
<p>why shouldn't I brag about the scholarship? Are you jealous, venkator, seeing that you will need to spend about $20,000/yr more for Penn than I will need to spend for Umich? I think Penn has lost their minds and they don't deserve me!
I honestly don't think Penn is worth an extra $80,000 over 4 years!! Do you?
GO WOLVERINES!</p>
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<p>For engineering, scholarships, sports, atmosphere, cost for instate students, and fellow students are solid reasons why people pick Michigan over Penn. The only things Penn has going for it are the Ivy name, smaller intro class sizes, urban location (when ignoring West Philly as the ghetto), and Wharton.
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<p>Why are you busy bashing Penn on the Umich board? Are you hesitant about going to Penn because there is no merit money there?</p>
<p>Maybe Penn is my first choice for more reasons than Wharton. I didn't mean to say that Mich has a better atmosphere, but some people like the big 10 state school feel. Sports is a bad reason to choose one school over another unless you play on a team, but people do so anyway. I would have loved to get merit money from Mich, but unless it was a lot, I doubt I would have picked it over Penn. There are more reasons why I chose Penn than the Ivy name and Wharton (which I am not in). Also, are you using money as a reason to make up for not getting into Penn? Is it a way to cope with rejection?</p>
<p>I really wasn't disappointed at all about the deferral! I was relieved because I now have until April to compare merit scholarships. Now I can still apply to Ross for business next year, something I am very interested in.
BTW..UNC Chapel Hill just gave me a likely letter..applied EA there...and I'm OOS.
I think the Penn admissions committee have lost touch with reality</p>
<p>lol dulce... there are at least 5-10 posts where you give some variation of: "$60,000 scholarship to UMICH!!! PUCK FENN!!!" </p>
<p>Come on now, obviously you wanted to go to Penn cause you ED'd there. Of course the scholarship is great and congratulations and all that, but your posts strongly project you as the "sore loser." --"I didn't like them anyway!! So ha!" </p>
<p>If you love michigan so much, fine. You do not need to be posting it all over the penn forum to nurse the sting of defferal. You're doing the other defferees a favor, cut your losses and move on if your $60,000 scholarship is SO awesome!! and you plan to do so anyway.</p>
<p>I think I'm doing the other deferees a favor (and the people who are still applying RD) by informing them of this wonderful scholarship. It show them that they can be deferred (or rejected) and still get accepted to one of the best universities in the country with a merit scholarship! Maybe it will encourage others to look at other schools that may REALLY want them and offer them money to attend.
Yep, I did want to go to Penn, but not anymore. I will turn them down in April even if they ultimately accept me. The scholarship is just TOO hard to pass up.
GO WOLVERINES!</p>
<p>I just realized that if I got 10-15K from Michigan and deferred from Penn, I would be saying the exact same stuff dulce is. But I'm going to Penn, so forget about Michigan.</p>
<p>My son, a legacy, was deferred ED 2 years ago. As a result, he was at home on 26 December, and not in Phuket where we would have been had he not needed the holiday to do applications for the RD round. Guess what happened in Phuket 2 years ago on 26 December? Tsunami.
Kinda puts it in perspective, right?</p>
<p>That said, here is what happened. The GC contacted the admissions officer and was told son was deferred as he was not top top in the class. Fair enough. Penn wanted to see who would apply in the RD round. The alumni admissions office sent a letter to me basically saying there is very little hope, don't depend on it, here is where you can still send money as a loyal Penn alum. I didn't send money.</p>
<p>My son sent: a brief letter saying Penn was still his first choice,and why; his updated grades (best semester in all of HS); new SAT's (incrementally better- they were already strong); an essay he wrote for another school-- about the Tsunami in fact; another recommendation (from a teacher who didn;'t know him well enough for the ED round). That was it. </p>
<p>I don't know who else in the class ended up applying, I think a few of the top 10 might have. My son was accepted- among a flurry of excellent acceptances at terrific schools in fact. One was with a 18-36,000/year merit scholarship for the honors program of a private university. He thought long and hard and then decided to stick with Penn, but it was not a given. He is a happy sophomore, but he would have been happy at all the other schools he got into-- really he would have been.</p>
<p>Hey dulce if you won't accept a penn acceptance then why don't you withdraw your application. I have a feeling you're saying that because you feel you won't get in so youd rather attack the school. If you are not at all interested in penn then leave the penn forum and instead go tell the u of michigan people how much you hate penn. I mean isnt this forum for the people who are happy to have gotten into penn, really hope to get in, or want to learn more about penn. It would be better for everyone for you to either reveal that you really are hoping to get into penn and stop bashing the school, or leave and go complain somewhere else.</p>
<p>Nope. I won't withdraw my application. I am secretly hoping to get in so that I can reject THEM in the spring, since I'm under no obligation to attend now.</p>
<p>wow, you'd probably be a much happier person if you just stopped being so bitter.</p>
<p>wait... if you did get into Penn, wouldn't you still be bound to go? You're still an ED student, just considered RD.
Isn't that why they have deferred kids in the first place? To fall back on?</p>
<p>Venus, the "fall back" option is based on the fact that statistically, deferred students are more likely to matriculate (since they demonstrated primary interest in the school). But deferred students are under no obligation to attend the school.</p>
<p>de leche say if you do get in, don't you realize that your taking someone else's place that might be dying to get in but has inferior credentials. I mean from what you're demonstrating you seem like a selfish, unhappy person who's pride is more important than some potentially accepted student's college years. Come on be more mature (that's probably why penn decided not to accept you)</p>