ED Acceptance Rate for Wharton?

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<p>Does anyone know? I know the data for the overall ED acceptance rate for UPenn, but that includes everything (CAS, Wharton, Huntsman, all the other programs). What about just Wharton specifically?</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist. =(</p>

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<p>you mean this?: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1177399-released-wharton-admissions-statistics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1177399-released-wharton-admissions-statistics.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@lilsheeve, thanks for the link, but it doesn’t have the acceptance rate for Wharton for early decision specifically…</p>

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<p>I had made a thread about it last year, specifically about the ED rate, in that one I came up with the number 17%, but if the numbers in that thread linked above are true, then if you de-average the 7.5% overall rate with the RD rate being 5.4%, the ED rate would be around 9.6% or something, which is a lot different from 17%…</p>

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<p>A tour at Penn said all the colleges were about the same.</p>

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<p>^really? I had assumed Wharton was a lot tougher to get into than the others.</p>

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<p>Wharton admissions officers claimed that last year’s Early Decision admission rate for Wharton was around 11% but then you have to take into account legacy students, etc. In reality, I’d say the rate for non-legacy students is somewhere around 8% for ED. Regular is somewhere around 6%, give or take a couple dozen people.</p>

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<p>Wow, if that’s true then that’s ridiculously low for an ED app. I really hope that’s not true >.<</p>

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<p>Any idea what percentage get deferred ED?</p>

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<p>wikiman’s thread about 2014 ED rate: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1022824-how-many-applying-wharton-ed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/1022824-how-many-applying-wharton-ed.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>i wonder what the numbers are like for 2015.</p>

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<p>There’s statistical bias with the link that spectralfish posted, so take it with a grain of salt! I’d estimate the ED acceptance rate at around 12%.</p>

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<p>The general range is from 7-15… 17 at most (though very unlikely nowadays). Just know that admissions is extremely competitive (amongst the most competitive in the world), so apply with that in mind. </p>

<p>If you’re asking this to determine whether or not you should apply early to Wharton/Penn, know that they accept more than half their students Early Decision and they definitely show preference to kids that apply early.</p>

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<p>The school-by-school breakdown isn’t officially published, but I do know from my admit officer and the Wharton 2015 FB group that RD was 5.4% and overall was 7.5%. I’ve heard about 400 people were admitted RD, so given a roughly 80% yield and a class size of 550 the ED admit rate was about 8.9%. This is pretty damn low, partially because a lot of people do apply ED over RD compared to other schools, which offsets some of the statistical advantage of ED. These are unofficial numbers so they may be a bit off–but no one in with current numbers is talking about a 20% admit rate, ED or otherwise.</p>

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<p>Seems like if Wharton is one of your reaches you’re better off using the ED somewhere else.</p>

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<p>I’e heard that the ED rate is about 9%, as well. A few kids here have tried to calculate it and have all come up with something around that number.</p>