<p>Hey guys! Okay so this is on behalf of my friend. She's really confused as to whether or not she should apply Early Decision or Regular Decision to Penn.</p>
<p>She's interested in applying for the Huntsman Program and because the website says that they encourage students to apply early, she really wants to. Also, Penn is her first choice school and so she has no problem applying early.</p>
<p>However, would applying early reduce her chances because she'd be competing with the best???</p>
<p>If anyone needs to evaluate her stats to answer this question, please let us know and we'll post them up.</p>
<p>If she has too much competition for the ED pool, they will consider again with the RD pool, won't they? So there's no real harm in applying ED. But in case your friend is accepted, she will not be able to see what kind of financial aid other schools are offering. In that case, she loses what may be a potentially better fin aid award. But if money is no issue, tell her to apply ED :D</p>
<p>Yes the only real worry when applying early is financial aid. You can't compare and have to stick with what you get (you can always appeal though). Otherwise, ED is the way to go</p>
<p>If you are sure that you want to go to Penn, you really should do ED. And you aren't dead if you get deffered in Dec. I was deferred, then accepted.</p>
<p>But, does being deffered from ED reduce your chances for RD? And if you aren't good enough for ED don't they just NOT BOTHER putting you into RD unless you were VERY CLOSE with someone else?</p>
<p>Also, even though she's applying from Hong Kong, she's a US citizen, does this put her in the US pool and give her a better chance?</p>
<p>She says Penn is MOST DEFINATELY her top chioce school, NO DOUBT about it, however, she'll be taking her subject tests in November and will have to rush her scores to the university. Does this put her at a disadvantage for ED?</p>
<p>Also, on the Huntsman website it says that students need to have EXCEPTIONAL verbal and math skills and GOOD language skills. She takes higher level IB spanish so thts fine and can probably get over the 650 requirement on her SAT II Spanish, BUT, she takes IB standard math, and although this covers Calculus (differentiation I and II, integration - doesn't get KILLER hard though), she's afraid that it won't show that she's AMAZING at math even though she's predicted a 6/7. Will scoring above 700 on the SAT II Math IIC, prove her math proficiency? </p>