<p>^ sorry i didnt reply to the pm lol, but yes she is from the bay area! as for east bay idk but Bay area yes</p>
<p>^Does geography relate to decisions somehow? For instance, if I live in Washington, would I get my decision on a different day than someone in the California Bay Area?</p>
<p>It would not factor into when you find out your decision but it factors into whether you will be accepted or not. For example, regions with lower amounts of applications such as Montana or Wyoming would be given slightly more priority than regions with high amounts of applications such as California or New Jersey.</p>
<p>i dont mean to be a creeper but do you know what school she goes to? Im really curious because Im from the bay too.</p>
<p>Did anyone get a likely letter?</p>
<p>i heard from someone that works in the admissions office that decisions have already been made. THE SUSPENSE!</p>
<p>^ so the final decision date is December 7th??</p>
<p>^ i don’t know D: maybe they’re just waiting on financial aid at this point? I think if it is december 7th, we’d get an email asap, like today, notifying us.</p>
<p>I would think the 7th if decisions are made. And she goes to Sacred Heart.</p>
<p>Hi foxtails, geography could matter because if you have a lot of competitve people from where you live apply, it would be relatively harder for you to get in. For example, Wharton will only take about 6-10 kids based on the math from the bay area and about 2-3 from the east bay and I know that a TON of kids apply from here. Thus it becomes a bloodbath to fight out all the other kids. However, that being said, I’m glad that the questbridge scholar got into Penn, she obviously deserved it but I just would like to know if there’s one less spot.</p>
<p>^^Thats…scary!</p>
<p>^Or, you know, they could just hold on to the decisions til Dec 12th to prolong the agony… Let hope not, though!</p>
<p>Thanks Kristian!</p>
<p>w17 - you make it sound like a quota system, and I don’t think it is that at all. I mean, what if NO applicants from XYZ are qualified this year? Certainly they aren’t going to accept underqualified applicants just to fulfill some numerical quota.</p>
<p>man… Im so hyped up for these decisions. Cant wait, but its really nerve wracking too.</p>
<p>(sorry I just realized my precious post might have come off as mean-sounding… I’m typing on my phone so I’m trying to be brief, and didn’t mean to be terse! No hard feelings?)</p>
<p>It is really nerve wracking.</p>
<p>Its not really a quota, as they can take more than a specific number of kids but realistically speaking, wharton is not going to take more than a few per area simply beacuse of the competitiveness of the school. I know a few years back there were 5 kids from the east bay, so theres not really a quota per se but they are obvoiusly not going to take all the kids from the bay area.</p>
<p>Btw - w17, I know several people through DECA who are applying to Penn/Wharton ED and live in the Bay Area…but honestly, they are so diverse, it’s impossible to pinpoint who may be your main competitor.</p>
<p>Also, ^Do you happen to be URM or female? None of the Penn hopefuls that I know (through DECA) are minorities. And they’re all guys :P</p>
<p>I hope Penn uses some loose quota system. As a Montana resident, the competition here is…</p>
<p>LOL I’m not in DECA, I do a lot of work on microfinance but know a lot of people in DECA. Im a male and Indian. See, the way I see it is that how many DECA people are they going to take? I know a ton of people whose main extracirricular is DECA and they are all applying but I feel that the school can only take so many… I’m not saying that my extracirriculars are great or anything, Im sure theres a lot of kids in microfinance too, but I see things in numbers and statistics so I may be a bit biased against DECA in that case.</p>