Early Decision Acceptance Rate drops to 24% for Penn Class of 2019

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**Early decision admission rate drops by 1.3 percent</p>

<p>By BOOKYUNG JO ・ 14 minutes ago**</p>

<p>After receiving a record-breaking number of early-decision applications this fall, Penn admitted 24 percent of its early-decision applicant pool, a drop of 1.3 percent from last year's 25.3 percent acceptance rate.</p>

<p>The Office of Admissions welcomed 1,316 early-decision applicants to the Class of 2019 on Monday via online admissions decisions, which became available to the record-high 4,589 applicants at 5 p.m.</p>

<p>This year's early-decision round saw a 6.6 percent growth in applications following last year's record 5,149 early-decision applicants.

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<p>See the rest of the article here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/12/early-decision-admission-rate-drops-by-1-3-percent"&gt;http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/12/early-decision-admission-rate-drops-by-1-3-percent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Umm… I think you meant:</p>

<p>“The Office of Admissions welcomed 1,316 early-decision applicants to the Class of 2019 on Monday via online admissions decisions, which became available to the record-high 5,489 applicants at 5 p.m.”</p>

<p>from the article.</p>

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<p>That’s another way to look at it, but the headline number for these stories–both literally and figuratively–is always the acceptance rate. For better or for worse. :)</p>

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<p>Oops, just realized what you meant, Rowmom. The excerpt I cut and pasted into my first post was from the original version of the article first posted on The Daily Pennsylvanian web site, which included that incorrect number of applicants. That number has since been corrected on the DP web site. ;)</p>