<p>7.7% admit rate; 65% yield projected (creeping up on P’ton) </p>
<p>By Meagan Steiner</p>
<p>April 03, 2006</p>
<p>A record low of 17.7 percent of applicants have been accepted into Penn’s Class of 2010.</p>
<p>The University accepted 3,622 out of 20,479 applicants – 13.8 percent of regular-decision applicants and 28 percent of early-decision applicants.</p>
<p>Overall, this marks a 3.1 percentage-point decrease from last year’s acceptance rate.</p>
<p>“Generally, the image of the University continues to rise in visibility and in selectivity,” Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson said.</p>
<p>He added that more students were offered spots on the waitlist this year to prevent the over-enrollment and housing shortage which afflicted the Class of 2009.</p>
<p>The proportion of admitted students from minority groups surged to 44.4 percent of acceptances from 39.2 percent last year. Black and African-American students represent 11.1 percent, up from 9.4 percent, and Latino students make up 9 percent, up from 7.1 percent, while 18 Native Americans were accepted, one more than last year.</p>
<p>Asians comprise 23.8 percent of the accepted pool, two students fewer than last year.</p>
<p>“We are particularly heartened by the racial and ethnic diversity of the pool,” Stetson said.</p>
<p>Acceptance offers include 2,261 to the College, 775 to Engineering, 475 to Wharton and 112 to Nursing.</p>
<p>Legacies represented 10.8 percent of the total. About 6 or 7 percent of those admitted are athletes, in accordance with Ivy League restrictions.</p>
<p>The admissions office does not collect data on economic diversity.</p>
<p>Stetson said he expects about 65 percent of accepted students to matriculate, at the same level as last year, and aims for a class of 2,400 students.</p>
<p>With so many students receiving rejection notices by mail and online – the admissions Web site received 26,000 hits on Thursday – Stetson said the admissions office expects a flood of phone calls soon from angry students.</p>
<p>Jon Mizrahi, a senior from Jacksonville, Florida, was leaning toward Penn before learning Thursday that he received a spot on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Though he was also denied acceptance at Yale University, he was admitted to Harvard University and plans to enroll there.</p>
<p>“I’m a little let down and have a few bitter feelings towards Penn,” he said.</p>
<p>Stetson said he predicts increased selectivity next year due to use of the Common Application and rising interest in the University, marked by a nearly 15 percent increase in campus visits this semester.</p>
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