<p>Does anyone think they can estimate the Early Decision acceptance rates per college?</p>
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<p>I’ve heard Wharton is lower than the number for Penn</p>
<p>I don’t know the specific ED acceptance rates, but I think in order from lowest to highest it is wharton, the college, engineering, nursing. </p>
<p>Historically, it has been Wharton, CAS, SEAS, Nursing.</p>
<p>However, in recent years, SEAS applications have risen rapidly, and admission rates are lower than CAS.</p>
<p>So does CAS have a higher ED acceptance rate than SEAS? Or vice versa?</p>
<p>Honestly, the acceptance rates for CAS and SEAS are pretty close. I thought that SEAS was slightly higher, but I could be wrong. I think that nursing is significantly higher than the overall acceptance rate. For CAS and SEAS you are probably looking at an acceptance rate slightly under the overall acceptance rate. Don’t quote me on this though. </p>
<p>In the end, I do not think that it matters. You need to apply to the college you are interested in. </p>
<p>If you think you may want to transfer from one college to another at some point, the Penn representative told us that in general Wharton is the hardest to transfer into, followed by SEAS, and that CAS is the easiest to transfer into.</p>
<p>Does Penn even break down its rates by College? And does it matter? If you want to be an engineer, does it matter what the acceptance rate is for someone interested in philosophy? Would you apply somewhere else wif you knew the individual acceptance rates? Who are the people that think a 12% acceptance rate is just fine but that 8% is totally unacceptable then go elsewhere?</p>
<p>Just wondering.</p>
<p>What you have to remember is that acceptance rates, like any statistic, is highly elastic and malleable to the volume of applicants. Wharton has a super low acceptance rate because a high volume of applicants want to apply to their school. In turn, the nursing school has somewhat higher acceptance rates because it has a fraction of the applicants that Wharton has. What I’m getting at is: it’s all relative. </p>
<p>I agree that the minuscule difference in rates is insignificant but if you’re really curious I know SEAS has a “Fast Facts” page on their website about last years numbers. 777 of 6,598 applicants were admitted giving SEAS an acceptance rate of 11.78%</p>
<p>This is for the class of 2017. For the class of 2018 the overall acceptance rate was 9.9% so seas was probably around 9. Historically cas has had a lower acceptance rate than seas but in the last few years seas applications have increased a lot and seas has a lower acceptance rate now.</p>
<p>@Penn95 @PhysicsisPhun15 @pennplease2015 I find it hard to believe that the SEAS ED Acceptance rate was 9 percent</p>
<p>Same. The 11.78% seems more realistic to me and it’s directly from the admissions numbers for the class of 2018.</p>
<p>You think it’s too high?</p>
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<p>There were 8,466 SEAS applicants for the Class of 2018:</p>
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<p>So assuming that about 777 applicants were again accepted (similar to the Class of 2017), that would be an acceptance rate of about 9% for SEAS.</p>
<p>@"45 Percenter" @pennplease2015 @PhysicsisPhun15 It seems that 9% or even 11% is way too low for an EARLY DECISION acceptance rate… Isnt the 11.78 just overall?</p>
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<p>That’s correct–those would be the overall SEAS acceptance rates for the past couple of years. There’s really no way to know what the ED acceptance rate is for any of the individual schools, since Penn never releases that. But my guess at this point would be that the ED acceptance rate for SEAS would be similar to, if not slightly lower than, the overall 25% ED acceptance rate.</p>
<p>do you guys think that CAS has a higher ED acceptance rate than SEAS? I am trying to decide between mathematics or comp sci and tbh i will apply to the college with a higher acceptance rate, as i love both fields equally</p>
<p>@"45 Percenter" ^^^</p>