<p>Does it really matter guys? Regardless of what the acceptance rate at each school is, I don't think (for the most part) people are going to choose a discipline based on the competition.</p>
<p>Anyway, I tend respect people, not schools. nj<em>azn</em>premed is someone whose statistics speak for themselves.</p>
<p>"Does it really matter guys? Regardless of what the acceptance rate at each school is, I don't think (for the most part) people are going to choose a discipline based on the competition."</p>
<p>I disagree. Plenty of people who would prefer to be in wharton apply to CAS or SEAS because they are scared off by the competition. A lot of them love penn's campus, location, status as "social ivy", and open curriculum, so they just apply to whichever of the 4 schools gives them the best chance of getting to experience those things.</p>
<p>And unfortunately, there is a segment of applicants that just want to get accepted to an ivy league school and apply to all 8 of them. these people are sure to pick the college at penn which they think they have the best chances at.</p>
<p>"Does it really matter guys? Regardless of what the acceptance rate at each school is, I don't think (for the most part) people are going to choose a discipline based on the competition."</p>
<p>I disagree. Plenty of people who would prefer to be in wharton apply to CAS or SEAS because they are scared off by the competition. A lot of them love penn's campus, location, status as "social ivy", and open curriculum, so they just apply to whichever of the 4 schools gives them the best chance of getting to experience those things.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, a segment of applicants want to get into an Ivy at any cost. they will choose the school at penn they believe they have the best chances at.</p>
<p>Yes, but if they're applying to Yale, they probably aren't going to be gunning for the nursing school at Penn...</p>
<p>dear penn board</p>
<p>i tried to edit my post and double posted. for that, i am ashamed.</p>
<p>sincerely,
choklitrain</p>
<p>Dear ChoklitRain (I don't know you, but oh well),</p>
<p>That was epicly awesome.</p>
<p>Yours truly,
ChandlerBing</p>
<p>ChoklitRain and ChandlerBing
you guys are nuts
:P</p>
<p>what majors are at CAS (any top ones? or are they all equally good?)</p>
<p>It's a lot easier to say what majors AREN'T at CAS: business ones (finance, marketing, etc), engineering ones, and nursing ones. CAS has everything else -- all the humanities, all the hard sciences (except engineering stuff), most of the social sciences. Even something like architecture, which could conceivably be in the Engineering School, in in CAS at Penn.</p>
<p>Most majors are in departments that are ranked in the top 10 in the NRC rankings. Pretty much everything at Penn is tops. Notably, Math isn't top 10 or 20, it's like 23, which is still fine for most people.</p>
<p>What about Health and Societies, Romance Languages, and EALC?</p>
<p>Admission percentages (by individual school) are misleading. The SEAS applicant pool is more self selective than CAS's due simply to the caliber of the average student interested in the more quantitatively rigorous engineering majors. I'm positive that at any selective university that separates the admission percentages by school (Columbia, Cornell, etc.), SEAS will have one of the highest admission rates (around a third) but when available, the stats of the applicant pool will be meaningfully higher. I mean, it just intuitively seems that the kids who know they have no realistic chance but apply anyways would throw their application into Penn's/Columbia's College (which results in the lower admission rate). It would be odd if the unimpressive super-reach applicants disproportionately know for sure that they want to major in engineering.</p>
<p>very good point excursions</p>
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<p>Its romance languages are all among the best. Here it is:
French: Penn is 5th.
Spanish: Penn is 6th.
Those are the only ones that there are national rankings for.</p>
<p>As for Health and Societies, that sounds like an individualized major at a different school. Rochester, I think?
Nonetheless, in related areas Penn ranks very highly:
Anthropology: Penn is 6th.
Sociology: Penn is 11th (ahead of all Ivies except Harvard).</p>
<p>Finally, as for EALC (East Asian languages and cultures), there are no such rankings. I would presume, given the strength of Penn's languages and anthropology department, that it is quite good. I know that they offer a wide array of classes in it each semester.</p>
<p>haha no, muerteapablo, health and societies (hsoc) is a major in the college</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure our ealc program is one of the best</p>
<p>Ah, my mistake. Penn is truly awesome. In 10 years, with some of that good-old prolonged exposure at the top and the expansion that's happening right now, it's going to be one the best, better than any of this Columbia nonsense.</p>
<p>I am so excited, honestly.</p>
<p>Yeah, if I get accepted to Penn I'm definitely going to put it into really serious consideration: the HSOC major (and concentration in International Health), Anthropology major, Spanish major, and EALC major all sound so amazing... I just don't know what I would study first! (I'm going to be pre-med).
I'm just not optimistic for my admission, since Penn's acceptance rates are so low.</p>
<p>I was reading about the Penn EALC program, it definitely seems like one of the strongest I've come across in my research. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how HSOC compares to similar majors at other schools like, say, Cornell's Human Bio, Health, and Society?</p>
<p>if you have this thinking of which school is the easiest to be accepted to, then you're applying to penn for the wrong reasons.</p>
<p>I don't think he's doing that at all. ChandlerBing truly appears to have researched which schools fit him the best, and now he's trying to get into one of them.</p>
<p>ChandlerBing: You were deferred from HumEc because you were too qualified. Brown used the same strategy 15 years ago, when they were starting to build street cred. I think you still have a fantastic shot at schools like Penn/Brown/Columbia, where you're more of a fit intellectually.</p>