<p>and CAS is all your normal majors excluding engineering, business, and nursing correct?</p>
<p>it depends on your demonstrated interest in the type of study the school focuses upon</p>
<p>and probably somewhat on your field on interest as indicated on the application</p>
<p>so if you've been doing nursing / healthcare volunteering all your life and have done well in science, then perhaps nursing would be easier to get into</p>
<p>if you're super science and math focused with relevant extracurriculars and awards, perhaps to the relative exclusion of english / social sciences / humanities, then perhaps engineering would be easier to get into</p>
<p>if you're an obvious wharton backdoor, then may not be so great regardless of what you pick</p>
<p>anyway, by historical acceptance rate, no, the college is not the easiest to get into (that would probably be nursing)</p>
<p>No, SEAS and Nursing have the highest acceptance rates by far. CAS gets the vast majority of applications, so its acceptance rate is very low, like 12% or so. Wharton is the hardest to get into, though.</p>
<p>in order of difficulty of acceptance(yes i know SEAS and nursing are somewhat self selective. they're still easier. get over it)</p>
<p>Nursing <---- easiest
SEAS
CAS
Wharton <---- hardest</p>
<p>male = nursing
female = engineering</p>
<p>nuff said.</p>
<p>There is no easiest school to get into. The question is flawed.</p>
<p>wow i thought CAS would be in front of SEAS and nursing.</p>
<p>^why would you think that dontstopbelievin?</p>
<p>that was the perception i had, it wasn't based on anything. i saw a lot more people on CC get accepted into CAS compared to the other schools. i guess i didn't really think of the people not on CC. but what does CAS take most into consideration? gpa, rec, essay, standardized test scores?</p>
<p>Choklit and Penn2013 are both right. </p>
<p>It's just the way things go.</p>
<p>CAS takes into account the same stuff as any other school. Just think of it as applying to a liberal arts college or any other school. Wharton might want to see higher math scores, as would SEAS and what not... CAS would just be like applying to any non-"specialty" college.</p>
<p>so should i just be good at all subjects all around?</p>
<p>Everyone I know at Penn says:</p>
<p>easiest
CAS
SEAS/Wharton
Nursing
hardest</p>
<p>People have the misconception of thinking Wharton must have the lowest acceptance rate when it's actually close to SEAS' rate.</p>
<p>_____, are you sure? I know that the RD rate for SEAS is low but its still not close to Wharton.</p>
<p>SEAS has a high acceptance rate, although it is still very selective (in terms of high SAT scores and HS GPA). CAS and Wharton are by far the two most selective schools, though.</p>
<p>_____(i feel like an idiot typing your username),Nursing is harder than Wharton? What dimension is this in? The 5th or 6th?</p>
<p>also: the dean of wharton ballparked the acceptance rate at 11% two years ago. it's nowhere near that of SEAS.</p>
<p>No way that Nursing is the hardest to get into....although I do agree Wharton and SEAS = at top</p>
<p>Only an engineer would agree to that. CAS is far more selective than SEAS in terms of what it is. CAS is arguably among the best BA programs in the country, just after HYPS.</p>
<p>SEAS is, while good, not on that scale among the engineering community.</p>
<p>Interestingly, Wharton's admit rate was 16% in 2005, the same year Penn accepted 17% overall: What</a> Wharton Wants</p>
<p>Last year, CAS's admit rate was slightly less than the overall rate for the university. This leads me to believe that CAS has about the same acceptance rate as Wharton.</p>
<p>Of course, Whartonites will likely deny this, but it seems correct.</p>
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<p>That sentence makes no sense.</p>
<p>You cannot say which school is more selective until you give a concrete definition of selectivity and then show with evidence that, under that definition, one school is more selective than another. The distinction you made about CAS being "among the best BA programs in the country" while SEAS not being on that scale, by itself, conveys nothing about the "selectivity" of the schools. In that case, Purdue's engineering is more selective than Harvard's engineering because its engineering school is ranked higher.</p>
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CAS is far more selective than SEAS in terms of what it is
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<p>That sentence makes no sense.</p>
<p>You cannot say which school is more selective until you give a concrete definition of selectivity and then show with evidence that, under that definition, one school is more selective than another. The distinction you made about CAS being "among the best BA programs in the country" while SEAS not being on that scale, by itself, conveys nothing about the "selectivity" of the schools. In that case, Purdue's engineering is more selective than Harvard's engineering because its engineering school is ranked higher.</p>
<p>I'm still right, though. CAS is simply considered better.</p>