<p>It’d be nice if someone could confirm this:
Apparently Wharton is accepting 150 more people this year (i think he said ED but it would make more sense to be acceptances overall) in response to increasing applications and because they’ve been making the school bigger anyways. This was told to me by an administrator at JHU that apparently has contact with Upenn. Also the rest of the school is supposed to be expanded somewhat but i don’t have any specifics.</p>
<p>That would be Awesome.</p>
<p>um, i think its true b/c penn's class has steadily rised in the past years. It's class size is now more near like 2600-2700 after freshman class due to transfer students.</p>
<p>what about SEAS. any word?</p>
<p>are you serious?</p>
<p>So I imagine that the 26% increase in apps to wharton would more or less even out, so hopefully it wont be too much harder than past years to get in.</p>
<p>i hope seas goes up</p>
<p>really? can anyone find a newpaper article or something to confirm this?</p>
<p>that would be awesome... means 75 more spots available about</p>
<p>I serioulsy doubt that. If that was true, the school would have announced the expansion a while ago, the same way Princeton announced it's expansion way ahead of time.</p>
<p>I'm sure if you actually asked someone at Wharton they would know the answer. As opposed to someone at JHU who "apparently has contact with Upenn."</p>
<p>Sounds quite unlikely. What is likely, however, is a decrease in available spaces since the yield for '09 rose quite significantly above what was expected.</p>
<p>I have to agree with snipanlol. The dorms are crowded now because of the higher yield for the class of 2009 and some students have had to be put up in the Inn at Penn. An increase at this point seems highly unlikely...sorry guys...</p>
<p>maybe he means more in the future... like more next year</p>
<p>Actaully it is the Sheraton. But yeah, housing is barely sufficient as it is, I cannot imagine them admitting more people. Not to mention, 150 people is approx 1/3 of each current Wharton class, expanding by 33% makes no sense. Penn's slight expansion is size was likely the result of a higher yield, not a decision to actually expand in size. More than likely admit rate will drop to respond to the rising yield rate, and thus normalize class sizes.</p>
<p>Actually, Penn literally will be expaning (in size, not number of students) in 2007 (correct me if I'm wrong about the date) when we obtain possession of the postal lands. Maybe once those are developed Penn can expand. Though I think a better use would be to create more green space, consolidate certain departments, and help alieviate the current housing crunch, maybe even helping to create a real college house system. Either way, I do not see Penn admitting more people in the future. Underestimating the yield again would be the only likely increase in population.</p>
<p>Gold Duck, do you think Penn - in an effort not to misjudge the seemingly volatile yield - will rely even more heavily on ED than in the past? This might make sense given the huge rise in ED apps this year...</p>
<p>well, that would be ideal for a lot of us here</p>
<p>It sounds nice...but theres some stupid basic college admissions law (not an actual law..like a theoretical law) that says you can't have more than 50% of your class from ED...its already up the ass of the 50% mark so I doubt it. I think the thinking is somthing like if you have more than 50% of your class form ED it deters people form applyin RD</p>
<p>^^^ I agree. Not to mention, more apps does not always equal more quality applications, thus the defferals to RD.</p>
<p>"Our plan is to stay with current enrollment levels," Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Stetson said, adding that this will be accomplished by decreasing the number of students admitted to the University in order to return to the normal class size of around 2,400.</p>
<p>From the September article in the DP:</p>
<p>ouch.. .</p>