<p>@AvidStudent, I am a sophomore applying to Wharton too… so it definitely is an advantage. Most of the transfer applicants to Penn are applying to Wharton, so relatively speaking it’s easier to get into CAS.</p>
<p>I think it’s interesting that people always say Penn and Cornell are the easiest Ivies to transfer into in… If you separate both by the specific colleges within the school, the rate is on par with over Ivies.</p>
<p>@cudream are u and avidstudent all from Dartmouth? Transferring from dart is definitely an advantage.</p>
<p>I am, and I assume from his/her location AvidStudent is as well… I think it’s more what you do where you at (rigor of courses, ECs, etc) than where you go… Name recognition doesn’t hurt, but you never know because transfer admissions are a worse crapshoot than freshman admissions.</p>
<p>I agree. @cudream what classes are u taking during the freshman year?</p>
<p>Updated w/ new numbers:</p>
<p>According to Penn’s 2010-2011 Common Data Set 328 out of the 2,155 transfer applicants were accepted yielding an acceptance rate of just 15.22%. A low estimate of students applying to Wharton is 400 while a high estimate is 800. For the sake of simplicity say 30 students are admitted to Wharton with 25 students accepting the offer. (This 25/30 accepting this offer is a yield rate of 83.33% similar to Wharton’s freshman yield rate of 77%) If you were to recalculate the acceptance rate for SAS & CAS and Wharton you’d find:</p>
<p>328 - 30 = 298
2155 - 800 = 1355
2155 - 400 = 1755</p>
<p>CAS & SAS acceptance rate is between 16.98% - 21.99%.
298/1355 = 21.99%
298/1755 = 16.98%</p>
<p>Also important to indicate Wharton acceptance rate is between 3.125% - 6.25%.
25/400 =6.25%
25/800 =3.125%</p>
<p>The most accurate numbers of last years acceptances are on Penn’s common data set. I believe it was like 2000 applicants and 328 acceptances. That’s roughly 15%? However, a lot of people do apply for Wharton.</p>
<p>wow, so CAS itself, based on @AvidStudent’s CDS, does have a high number of acceptances… well here’s to hoping?</p>
<p>@cordova1992, I edited my original post to reflect the numbers from Penn’s 2010-2011 Common Data Set. However, it wasn’t until after I updated my post that I realized my original numbers were the most current numbers because if you were to look at the Common Data Set you will the numbers in the data set are for the Fall of 2010. The numbers on CollegeBoard are for the Fall of 2011.</p>
<p>@MJG678, the numbers according to Fall 2011 numbers are much lower than Fall 2010 numbers.</p>
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<p>According to CollegeBoard 203 out of the 2,099 transfer applicants were accepted yielding an acceptance rate of just 9.67%. A low estimate of students applying to Wharton is 400 while a high estimate is 800. For the sake of simplicity say 30 students are admitted to Wharton with 25 students accepting the offer. (This 25/30 accepting this offer is a yield rate of 83.33% similar to Wharton’s freshman yield rate of 77%) If you were to recalculate the acceptance rate for SAS & CAS and Wharton you’d find:</p>
<p>203 - 30 = 173
2099 - 800 = 1299
2099 - 400 = 1699</p>
<p>CAS & SAS acceptance rate is between 10.18% - 13.32%.
173/1299 = 13.32%
173/1699 = 10.18%</p>
<p>Also important to indicate Wharton acceptance rate is between 3.125% - 6.25%.
25/400 =6.25%
25/800 =3.125%</p>
<p>Yay for applying to Wharton… I still have a missing document and still haven’t received an email from them, even though I emailed admissions to make sure my materials were all in order. They REFUSED to look it up for me when I called.</p>
<p>Penn says only 16 courses max will transfer and 48 must be completed at the school. Yikes!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202010-11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202010-11.pdf</a></p>
<p>how many actual credits is that? 60 credits?</p>
<p>I think they consider one course one credit regardless of the units for that course.</p>
<p>I applied for communications. I hate how late they told us, I just got into washu and they want a deposit much sooner than penns decision date</p>
<p>^request an extension from washu… Hopefully they will grant you one. I am calling this week to get the exact date of the decision so I can request an extension.</p>
<p>that’s exactly what I’m doing! I already called and they said they usually only do extensions for one week and are having me draft up a letter to my admissions counselor to ask for longer. I was vague and just asked for until the end of may. where else are u looking at?</p>
<p>I have to request an extension from Cornell.</p>
<p>all this waiting is making me very antsy</p>
<p>anyone heard anything from Penn at all? we should be getting info about missing items considering that the notification date is in 3 weeks!</p>
<p>@cordova1992 I sent two emails today to update the final grades. No replies.</p>
<p>I’m applying to CAS as a poly sci major and I was told that we would be informed of the decision on May 10th when I called today. Does anyone know how we will be informed though??? mail, website, email etc.?</p>
<p>We find out online.</p>