<p>So today I see a letter in my mail from Penn. A thin envelope, so I think it’s probably something like reminding me how to access my online decision or something.</p>
<p>Instead it’s a letter asking for my application fee. What it says is along the lines of “we need your $70.00 in order to continue to process your application.” </p>
<p>Now of course I have to send them the $70.00, but I think it’s a little funny that they’re mailing me this late. I mean obviously they’ve made their decision, and I’m thinking that if they need my fee in order to analyze my application at this point, so late in the game, then really they’re just yanking on my chain and I’ve already been ploughed into the reject pile. If I was a serious contender I think the letter would have come much sooner.</p>
<p>I just got a letter from yale last week saying they need my counselor rec, I don't think it's any indication either way. I think they opened up your application and said "oh *****!, this kid didn't pay!" They're still right in the heart of reading their apps, I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>no u didn't. u won't find out whether u got rejected or not until March 30th. These threads have got to stop. There's no backdoor acceptance, there's no use trying to glean meaning off a simple email that has nothing to do with your decision whatsoever.</p>
<p>If you care about Penn, send the fee right now.</p>
<p>And even if they rejected you already (which I do not think is the case only because they are asking you for the fee), it's your fault. You're supposed to pay the fee when you send your application, not a million years later when decisions are close to being released.</p>
<p>Muffinking....here at Penn, we desperately need your application fee! Penn can't send mailers to all of us current students about how many applications they received this year if they don't ever get your application fee. Come on, be a team player! They need to be able buy the paper for the mailer. :D</p>
<p>I sent the fee, that was really a non issue. It's just a question of moral obligation. I didn't mean to imply that I wasn't going to pay it, I never had the intention of doing that.</p>
<p>wrathofgod: Yeah fine, I'll concede that maybe I'm over analyzing, but still...it did strike me as quite odd. And I've gotten mixed reactions from my friends, ranging from "Oh that sucks" to "What the heck?" to "Oh that's good news!" </p>
<p>i got the same exact letter. and wondered the same exact thing cause i sent my application in like..3 months ago? why the late notice? not to mention..i actually did send in a fee waiver. so..yeah. confused...but i'll send the 70$ anyway and see how this goes...</p>
<p>yes, muffin king, in the words of ThomasH32, be a team player, send the exorbitant amount of 70 dollars to the rich ivy league university with the billion dollar endowment! cuz really, if we send all these people tiny thin evelopes without taking 70 dollars in return, we may not be able to pave our staircases with marble...or make sure all of our proffesors have country homes in the east hamptons!</p>
<p>Why are some people so bitter over this application fee?</p>
<p>Penn can't have applicants telling future applicants that they didn't pay and still got a decision, or else numerous future applicants won't send in money. And if people find out that applying to Penn is free, numbers of applications skyrocket and admissions is bogged down, and there's more people who just applied to Penn because it's free that end up shutting out borderline kids who dreamed of going to Penn their whole lives! And then locusts come forth from the bottomless pit and the whole thing is just a mess we really don't want to get into.</p>