ED Acceptance Rate = 26%

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<p>as some of you know I am an alumni interviewer for Penn. A few minutes ago I received an e-mail from admissions...below I've pasted a small portion of it:</p>

<p>December 10, 2010</p>

<p>Dear SSC Member,</p>

<p>EDP Wow and Now!!!
Dean Eric Furda, C’87, and the entire Admissions staff want to thank alumni volunteers for assistance at fall recruitment programs and for stirring up the most memorable and robust Early Decision pool in University history! Penn received 4,571 EDP applications for the Class of 2015, a record high 18 percent increase over last cycle. A 26 percent admit rate in comparison to 31 percent last year boasts increased selectivity and we are pleased to offer admission to well-regarded students possessing amazing strengths and the highly desirable attributes we seek—superior academic preparation and intellectual abilities; in-range standardized testing; socio-economic, racial, and regional diversity; ability to impact extracurricular life; and an inclination to take full advantage of all that Penn has to offer. </p>

<p>With very limited time to complete your work, alumni interviewers rose to the challenge, enthusiastically interviewing a large percentage of EDP candidates. Timely filing of insightful reports greatly enhanced our admissions committee discussions. (We can’t even begin to tell you how often we referred to interview reports in admissions committee deliberations to confirm and support our instincts about decisions.) We owe you gold star stickers and so much more, but let us simply say Thank you. Your perceptive outreach efforts make a world of difference to all of us in College Hall and across the University.</p>

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<p>So-- contrary to what many post in this forum-- alumni interviews DO matter when it comes to selection . . .</p>

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<p>like i’ve posted before they matter a lot more in ED than in RD and they are generally used when they are on the fence about someone (like they said they help them confirm their insticts about applicants). However, if you didn’t get an interview (likely due to the fact that there weren’t enough interviewers in your area to interview all candidates) then it isn’t held against you.</p>

<p>All of that said, I wouldn’t take the comment in the snippet above as meaning that alumni interviews matter a lot…they are just paying lip service to the alumni volunteers trying to make us feel like our interviews actually mattered.</p>

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<p>I was defered… do you know if you are allowed to send in a new commonapp essay/penn supplement? :(</p>

<p>Or if you are still allowed to give in more info?? :(</p>

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<p>I think you can send them additional information…</p>

<p>I don’t think you can send in a new commonapp essay/penn supplement essay. You could probably send an additional essay but it’s not like they will replace your old ones with your newly submitted ones. The old ones would still be in your file.</p>

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<p>Whartongrad i have a question. I got deferred from wharton. When they re evaluate my application with regular decision applicamts, do adcoms still know that i was a ED deferred applicant??</p>

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<p>@gogogogo: Yes they will know that you were an ED deffered applicant.</p>

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<p>wow 26% for ED is the lowest I think Penn has ever seen…I think a few years ago they hit 28%…congrats to everyone that got in! </p>

<p>I am curious to see how much RD applicantions rise compared to the 18% increase in ED apps.</p>

<p>what are your thoughts wharton grad?</p>

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<p>Here’s the article posted this evening on the Daily Pennsylvanian’s web site:</p>

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<p>[Early</a> decision admit rate falls to 26 percent | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“http://thedp.com/article/early-decision-admit-rate-falls-26-percent]Early”>http://thedp.com/article/early-decision-admit-rate-falls-26-percent)</p>