Son and friends are saying that Dean Furda said they are already over 100% committed … won’t be taking any off the waitlist… not sure if that is standard for the yield or not… ??
Also, I’m guessing that Wharton will be harder to get in next year with Donald Trump being the nominee - he is very vocal about having attended Wharton- so many more people (parents, students internationals) will have Wharton on their radar… should be interesting to see… (although Penn doesn’t publish Wharton specific numbers)
@runswimyoga “I’m guessing that Wharton will be harder to get in next year with Donald Trump being the nominee”
Good point. He has already projected himself as a successful business leader, which is the goal many Wharton applicants are looking for. If Trump turns to be a successful politician, it would add another cool story for Wharton.
@Much2learn “He has to reign in the crazy stuff or it might hurt Wharton. lol”
People don’t like some politicians but won’t dislike the colleges where these politicians got the educations. lol
@f2000sa I think Wharton is a bit higher than that, since CAS and SEAS have acceptance rates right around the general acceptance rate (CAS maybe a little bit higher) and nursing is way too small to have a big effect on acceptance rate. So more like 7.5 -8% would be my estimate, but it is definitely lower than the other schools at Penn for sure. Also Wharton is somewhat self-selected which could contribute to a slightly higher acceptance rate than one would expect. For M&T, Huntsman,LSM the acceptance rates are prob between Harvard/Stanford and Yale levels. Also I don’t entirely agree that Wharton is looking for different kinds of people that HYPSM or other top schools. Yes there are the kids who have already built businesses and are super pre-professional from high school and know they wanna do finance, but most Wharton admits are simply very accomplished students just like anyone else, with a general interest in business, and leadership positions in high school.
What @Canoon describes happens more often than not both during RD and ED. People apply to Penn for CDDs and put wharton or the other school (CAS or SEAS depending on the program) as their second choice. If they get into CDD there is good chance they have also got into one or more of HYPSM and in this case the split between Penn and HYPSM is rather even, with many, maybe most (def not all though) choosing the CDD. The students however that do not get into the CDD but instead get into their second choice at Penn, for example Wharton , then the chances of these students choosing Penn over their HYPSM option(s) goes down significantly. For SEAS the only case I have heard of is people turning down Yale because its engineering is not as strong, and for CAS the chance of that happening is even lower.
Of course I am not saying that this is what everyone does, but if one looks at the aggregate I am willing to bet that these are the trends one will observe.