<p>I am only asking this here because I e-mailed Penn but didn't receive any reply-</p>
<p>I'm an international applicant placed on the wait-list for the class of 2017 and I have agreed to remain on the wait-list, but because there is no guarantee that I will be able to attend Penn, I accepted an offer from a different institution in another country and have already commenced classes. My confusion lies here: if Penn decides to accept my application, am I eligible to accept their offer even though I have commenced classes in another institution? I have read on the website of few colleges that once enrolled into another institution, applicants can only apply as transfer students but NOT as incoming freshman. I have no idea if Penn follows the same policy or not.</p>
<p>I don’t believe that you would be disqualified from admission from the wait list merely because you started classes at another school. Virtually all students on the wait list have accepted offers of admission from other schools by the time Penn starts accepting a few of them from the wait list, and the fact that you’ve already started classes at your other school shouldn’t make any difference, it seems to me.</p>
<p>But if you’ve informed the Penn Admissions Office that you’ve already started classes at another school, you might want to also let the Admissions Office know that you are still committed to attending Penn if accepted from the wait list, and would leave your current school to start at Penn in August.</p>
<p>Yes I definitely intended to mention that I am committed to attending Penn, but I wasn’t sure if they will consider my application if I actually started classes elsewhere.</p>
<p>But you are not submitting a new application to be evaluated. If you are accepted off of the WL, it will be based on what you submitted in December. Plus PENN won’t be wanting to trip you over such a minor technicality – if they offer you a spot, they REALLY want you to be able to say YES.</p>
<p>You’re definitely in the clear. Rules like that pretty much only apply to other US Universities. If you’re abroad they would never know and would likely never care.</p>