<p>Yeah, and they were saying this even before the 21% increase in ED applications. ouch ouch!!!</p>
<p>The guy I talked to was talking about the postal lands too. He said they were accepting more in response to that, so it might very well be next year...sigh</p>
<p>The postal lands aren't going to be developed any time soon. And it takes much more than postal lands to give the university the ability to accept a larger class.</p>
<p>You guys need to let this go... it ain't happenning any time soon. Read the DP article that countdown linked to. And read about the postal lands.</p>
<p>do you think penn's class size decrease will affect ed applicants???</p>
<p>Yes--the school generally tries to fill a certain percentage of the final class with ED applicants, so less pepople admitted overall = less people admitted ED</p>
<p>My brother is a freshman in Wharton, and I went to visit him for Family Weekend in October. Dr. Amy Guttmann, Penn's President, hosted a large Q&A session in the auditorium-- one parent asked about potential student body expansion in the future. She specifically noted campus expansion, as they will be acquiring lots more land (to the Schuylkill River, I think she said), but she also specifically said that they will NOT be expanding their student body anytime soon at all. Campus expansion (many more buildings, facilities, resources, etc.) was the goal in acquiring new land, she said, and she did not foresee any INTENTIONAL student body expansion in the near future unless their yields kept increasing to percentages higher than they anticipate.</p>