<p>I just saw this on their website. Approximately 4500 ED applications this year.</p>
<p>"If Penn were to accept 1,200 of the applicants from the current pool, the early decision acceptance rate would be 26.6 percent an all-time low."</p>
<p>Early</a> decision applications rise 17 percent | The Daily Pennsylvanian</p>
<p>niceeeee!!!</p>
<p>not. good.</p>
<p>so theres less of a chance of getting in early this year…great…</p>
<p>Hate my life.</p>
<p>This is interesting…I thought Columbia’s transition to the common app would decrease Penn’s ED applications.</p>
<p>^ i don’t see how you could make that correlation between Columbia and Penn</p>
<p>Well, I assumed Columbia is going to see a rise in applications because of its usage of the common application, and since Columbia and Penn are peers many who would have otherwise applied to Penn ED would probably want to give Columbia a try and not apply ED. I don’t know, I might be completely off.</p>
<p>ED is a hard conscious decision not a convenient thing. One applies ED to Columbia because one thinks it is his/her #1 choice, not because it is easier to fill an application through Common App. I can understand the argument a little bit with RD.</p>
<p>I didn’t say that I think Columbia will see a rise in its ED applications…I said I thought Penn would see a decrease in its ED applications because it’s much more common for people to drop their ED plans than to adopt one.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter, though, because I was obviously wrong.</p>
<p>:( dang it!!</p>
<p>That is not what you said, please reread #8.</p>
<p>A ridiculous 27 or so kids applied ED from my school. We’re a good independent schools with Philly address (and the consequential alumni connections), so we have a 50+% acceptance rate, but the numbers this year are just ridiculous.</p>
<p>You guys are seriously complaining about a ~25% admittance rate? T_T</p>
<p>I applied Columbia ED and would run around my block naked if that were the case.</p>
<p>ttparent - I DIDN’T say that Columbia would see a rise in its ED applications. I said it would see a rise in applications in general…and I’m probably right about that. What I’m admitting is that I was wrong about Penn seeing a decrease in its ED applications because of Columbia.</p>
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That’s not much higher than Columbia’s ED admit rate. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>almost cried</p>
<p>Not what I wanted to hear today, just when I was having a moment of confidence this little piece of news just completely spoiled it!</p>
<p>@benjayminf Same here T.T</p>
<p>Well this must be exceedingly pleasant news for all of you Penn EDers.</p>