Oh Furda, you tease! Apps aren't up to 25,000; they're at 26,800! 17% increase

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<p>Plus I feel admit rate- 13.9-14.1 :)</p>

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<p>For Yale, the highly publicized murder must not have helped. Crime happens just about everywhere but that was a big news story that came out just about at the wrong time of the year.</p>

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<p>Single digits would be pretty sexy one day – not gonna lie.</p>

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<p>Man why do you want penn to be more selective? Wuts the use of it being like Stan where only 7% of people get in?</p>

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<p>What are the acceptance rate and SAT average for Wharton freshmen? Would that be about 5% and 2300?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>@Atypicalguy: There is an inverse relationship between acceptance rate and a school’s perceived prestige.</p>

<p>@ace550: I’ve usually heard that the acceptance rate for Wharton is ~ 10%. I’m not sure about the average SAT score, perhaps ~ 2250.</p>

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<p>According to a book that came out in 2004, Wharton’s SAT average is 14 points higher than the college’s. No one knows what the College’s average is, either, but they should both be somewhere around the mean for the entire school, perhaps a bit north of it (to adjust for Nursing, although they comprise such a small group).</p>

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<p>***… this is not a gud news for me. COME ONNN UPENNN!!! :(</p>

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<p>as a recent ED acceptee, I would want nothing more than for Penn’s selectivity to increase (sorry RD applicants). just think of how much better that makes me look!! :):):slight_smile: !!!</p>

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<p>^Funny… I got in already and want it to decrease. Am I the only one on this board to feel this way?</p>

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<p>probably… haha lol</p>

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<p>Atypicalguy: selectivity ↑ = acceptance rate ↓</p>

<p>…unless you actually want Penn to be easier to get into, less prestigious, etc.</p>

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<p>More details of the increase in applications:</p>

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<p>[Penn</a> Current: Latest News: Applications to Penn reach all-time high](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html]Penn”>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html)</p>

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<p>^ Note that the last sentence of the above article has now been corrected on the web site:</p>

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<p>[Penn</a> Current: Latest News: Applications to Penn reach all-time high](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html]Penn”>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html)</p>

<p>2,400 has been the target number for many years now. 2,500 would have been an increase.</p>

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<p>2400 eh? If only we had 100% yield, we could have an 8% acceptance rate!</p>

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<p>If the yield reaches 66%, we’ll have 13.3% admissions rate, although this seems unlikely.</p>

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<p>We need to find out the Class of 2014 ED acceptance number (should come out any day now), in order to extrapolate the 2014 RD yield, acceptance number, and total acceptance rate from last year’s numbers.</p>

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<p>Even then, it would be impossible to project any type of accurate RD yield.</p>

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<p>ilovebagels - this reporter does seem to think that Penn has a 100% yield:
[University</a> of Pennsylvania says applications up 17% - Philadelphia Business Journal:](<a href=“http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2010/01/25/daily3.html]University”>http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2010/01/25/daily3.html)</p>

<p>Also, something to ponder: Columbia hasn’t released its numbers yet. Is it sitting on bad news? It would be very interesting to see if their numbers decreased, while we have another high-yield year and get down to 13%.</p>

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<p>muerteapablo, we couldn’t project the precise RD yield, obviously, but we could make some assumptions (i.e., extrapolate) from last year’s yield if we knew how many spaces had already been given to ED acceptees.</p>

<p>And don’t draw any conclusions from Columbia’s silence–apparently, it’s not unusual for Columbia to withhold the total number of applications until it releases its acceptance numbers in the Spring.</p>