<p>Hey, I'm currently in my junior year at HS and am quite interested in the Huntsman Program at Penn. </p>
<p>Any current Huntsman or Huntsman alumnus mind bestowing some information on me regarding how much harder it is to get in Huntsman rather than Wharton or CAS?</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>Well it shouldn’t really matter since you apply to Huntsman and then you choose your backup school</p>
<p>How would that relate to my chances to get in the Huntsman? That just gives me the same chance to get in Penn.</p>
<p>Huntsman is much much harder to get into in comparison to Wharton and CAS (it’s acceptance rate is below 7% although there’s no official statistics on that), and Wharton is much harder to get into than CAS.</p>
<p>Huntsman admissions are pretty random. They get a lot of great apps, they pick about forty of them, and that’s that. It’s not the sort of thing I would recommend gunning or aiming for, partly because you’ll almost certainly end up disappointed, and partly because the program is not a boon socially and the extra work has little tangible payoff in the end.</p>
<p>In my opinion, Huntsman is more selective not because Huntsman students are smarter than other Wharton students, but because the program looks for people who have demonstrated a serious interest in other cultures, languages, or international affairs. Most people simply do not have the ECs to prove that.</p>
<p>@Choklitrain, I realize that every single Huntsman app is of considerable quality so in no way do I expect to be accepted, was just curious on how much harder it is in comparison to the individual penn schools.</p>