<p>Oh right, we do something called JA here.</p>
<p>@deathblade127</p>
<p>Seriously?! People heard of Penn but not Wharton… over here in mainland China… when I tell ppl I applied to Upenn… they always go like “oh. <em>blank face</em>” and then when I mention Wharton they go all crazy like its some legendary place…</p>
<p>Great to see a person from my timezone applying to Penn~</p>
<p>does anyone know what an online acceptance looks like? is there a big congratulations that pops up or…?</p>
<p>^Don’t know, think it’s just a letter. Certainly nothing as flashy as Columbia’s lol.</p>
<p>flashy? what does columbia’s acceptance look like?</p>
<p>i read earlier on CC that penn’s acceptance has a big “Hurrah, Hurrah!” so let’s hope to see those words come Wednesday!</p>
<p>^lol Columbia’s acceptance came with a song + video. I’m pretty sure Penn’s is just a letter.</p>
<p>^ As I recall, the Penn online acceptance last year was just a letter (with accompanying videos) that started with “Hurrah, hurrah Pennsylvania!” The RD online acceptance letter DID include a video when opened, and the stillavailable ED acceptances were updated to include the opening video.</p>
<p>^ Meant to say that the Penn ED on-line acceptance last year was just a letter . . . .</p>
<p>video or not…I’d take Penn over any other school any day. But then again, I guess 4000 other ED applicants feel the same way.</p>
<p>4 days and 16 hours to go :)</p>
<p>@chrezie - where in China you in? And yeah, maybe its improved recently since someone in our school actually got into Wharton, but still, when I go “I’m applying Wharton”, my friends are mostly like, “What?”. Then I go, oh, “its in Upenn”, and then they then get what I’m saying.</p>
<p>^Shanghai~ do you have any idea if they group applicants by their citizenship/nationality or by where they apply from? I’ve heard that being grouped in the Chinese applicant batch will hurt application a lot…(I am not stalking you or anything…but I saw from somewhere that you’re also Canadian~~)</p>
<p>I don’t really think they separate people by countries, but they do have a feel of how many they’ll accept each region - nevertheless, a strong applicant is a strong applicant. There’s also a separate pool for Internationals who need aid and for those who don’t - unless you’re Canadian or Mexican.</p>
<p>Yup, I’m canadian-chinese, originally from Shanghai/Beijing - went to Shanghai during summer, literally saturated nanjing road hahaha. You study anywhere near there?</p>
<p>If I am not mistaken, my understanding of the admissions process is that each admissions counselor is assigned a region. Each region than has a quota (I doubt that it is super strict but I believe that each counselor is given a number or a range that they should shoot to aim for when admitting students). In your case, your region includes China, the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, and Central and South America</p>
<p>^Does that mean applicants from Central America are placed under the same general quota as those from China/Mexico/etc?</p>
<p>^ There are no per-country or per-region quotas, per Dear Furda:</p>
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<p>[10</a> Questions for the Dean of Admissions of the University of Pennsylvania - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/choice-blog-admissions-upenn/]10”>10 Questions for the Dean of Admissions of the University of Pennsylvania - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Naturally, they seek a geographically diverse class, but beyond that general diversity goal–and the constraints of need-aware admissions for international applicants outside of Canada, the US, and Mexico–there are no hard numbers set out in advance for how many applicants will be accepted from a particular country or region.</p>
<p>Thx Shellster and 45 percenter!</p>
<p>I guess Shellster’s explanation kinda makes sense even without hard numbers for particular countries or regions, since the group China is in includes basically the whole world minus north America minus Africa minus Europe… I’d say they would have at least a vague idea about how many third-world kids they want to admit…</p>
<p>But still… I do think China is not favored in Ivy League admissions… I heard that last year Harvard only took 7 students from the entire country (including non-Chinese citizens in China)… considering the number of students in China, and the number of students applying to Harvard from China…the stats are pretty ugly…
Yale is similar to Harvard… Princeton is probably worse… and the other Ivies probably aren’t too much better.</p>
<p>^LOl that we’re still up at 3.20</p>
<p>And apparently, penn accepted 15-20 HKstudents last year, And btw, @chrezie, if you can read Chinese, this article might be quite interesting in terms of Wharton admissions in china.</p>
<p>[沃顿商学院申请经验</a>; - CUDream](<a href=“http://www.cudream.com/277793903921830233983849830003358313246339564.html]沃顿商学院申请经验”>http://www.cudream.com/277793903921830233983849830003358313246339564.html)</p>
<p>^ XD… apparently so are you!.. thx for the link… heading over to read it right now~</p>
<p>@deathblade…even the innocent link you posted is blocked in mainland China…this is sad… I have to go through my VPN to access an education-related article = =</p>