Increase in ED Apps

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I was just wondering if you guys think the 20% increase in apps for early decision this year will significantly decrease the admit rate or not. Or will Penn try to admit more applicants to keep the same admit rate? Thanks.</p>

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<p>This has been discussed in other threads, but my guess is that Penn won’t want to increase the percentage of the target class admitted through ED much above 50%, which would result in the ED admit rate going down this year to about 26%.</p>

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<p>In other words…
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<p>That being said, I know a lot more people who have applied from my school who, seeing the higher admit rate in ED, applied ED, even though they are not qualified. I would say its harder to get in this year ED, but not as bad as it looks.</p>

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<p>definitely agreeing with pennplease</p>

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<p>^
that makes me feel a bit more relieved because all the applicants from my school are qualified</p>

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<p>I posted this in another thread today, but it’s also apropos to this thread:</p>

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<p><strong>gulp</strong></p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>freaking minorities and AA, oops, did I say that out loud, haha. Well I guess that is good news for Penn.</p>

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<p>How many different types of minorities are there…??</p>

<p>Really when they say an increase in underrepresented minorities does that basically mean an increase in black,Indian and other ethnic group applicants? </p>

<p>******** in my opinion</p>

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<p>I didn’t even put my race down, just so they can’t count it against me officially; I’m an ORM or whatever.</p>

<p>I keep forgetting that being Asian is considered a minority ~in real life.</p>

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<p>I feel that sociologically, Asians are essentially white. I’m not referring solely to college admissions, but just American society in general.</p>

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<p>I would argue this.</p>

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<p>fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu</p>

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<p>@ saints2009
what the hell are you talking about?</p>

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<p>It went a little over my head as well…</p>

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<p>proper? maybe we shouldn’t discuss race on cc</p>

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<p>what in gods name do you mean. they are treated as proper americans? and other groups of people are treates as unproper americans? i definitly would not characterize it that way</p>

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<p>Ohhh, i get it. I might be inclined to disagree slightly; it depends on where you live. But yes, I understand where you’re coming from.</p>

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<p>Back to the whole Penn thing - when I read 45 Percenters post my stomach just… sunk. My expectations just got lower if thats even possible. At this point I feel like I’d rather be rejected than deferred just because that would mean I could move on to another school.</p>