Just found out most of the other Penn ED applicants in my school have gotten interviews and I haven’t. Submitted Oct 6th and most kids submitted Oct 30th and got interviews two days later. This is great…almost as great as finding out 43 kids from my school are applying ED 
@ComputerAge holy sh*t 43 other people!!??! what kind of school do you go to? there are 12 other people from my school applying (not sure if they are all early decision) and I thought that was bad enough 
I’ve got 6 applying from my school… I don’t feel so bad now
Thank you @ShaunakK98 .
WOW! 43 people applying ED from the same school? Feels like a different continent.
What state is your school in @ComputerAge if you don’t mind my asking?
And that’s up from 21 ED apps last year… 43 applicants is literally 5% of my grade. It doubled. Oh man this is where I lose all hope…
@ComputerAge I feel you dude. I submitted my application on Oct 13 (the first person in my school to apply ED), and 9 people applied ED to Penn this year from my school. So far 2 of them have received interviews and I haven’t.
I understand some students have family circumstances such as being low-income that forces them to work to contribute to their family’s income (like me). And, I’m wondering: do these kids have 4.0s because they just took lower-level and therefore less rigorous classes? I’ve made a deliberate effort to not go that route and, instead, taken harder classes which hasn’t fared the best (i’ve gotten all A-/B+ and an A here and there). Am I screwed?
You are definitely not at a disadvantage if you took the harder route. If Penn sees that people took the easy way out and got 4.0 UW, that will definitely NOT be thought of as better than an A/B student
@TheWaffleMan149 what’s your opinion on transferring? Would you try if you weren’t admitted to Penn?
Hard to say. I don’t know much about the transfer process. It depends where else I get in. Obviously, if I get into a school like Harvard RD (which is pretty unlikely, but I think you get my point), I will not transfer to Penn, unless I don’t like it there. If I end up somewhere that I don’t like, or I think that I would be happier at Penn, then I will have to see how much of a hassle the transfer process is. Most likely, I will see how it is there, and if I do not like it, I will look into transferring @nodaysoff97
makes sense
@nodaysoff97 Transferring is a time-consuming, difficult, and nearly always almost doesn’t garner results you want. Personally, for me, I hate the thought of transferring from nearly anywhere. After you have been at a school for a year, you (hopefully) have set a path out of what you want to do, you have established a few friendships and relationships, have joined a few extracurriculars, and become a member of a distinct community. Transferring to a school like Penn is close to impossible. They probably accept like 1% of transfer applicants at best. (I mean Harvard only accepts like 12 transfer applicants out of 1000 or so). Unless you end up at your absolute safety school, I would just grin and bear it. Most of the time, you can craft a good experience out of something you don’t think will be good. For me, I would only try transferring to Penn if I went to UMass Amherst, which is my safety school. I’d be perfectly okay at a school like NYU (which is actually one of my top choices).
@TheWaffleMan149 It is quite a hassle in my opinion. You have to go through this same stress again, and I’m sure your platypus can’t take much more of it. Also, you lose everything I mentioned earlier. Plus, you’ll have less time to fulfill requirements that are necessary to earn a degree at a school, and you might need to go beyond 4 years of college, which for me at least, isn’t financially feasible.
@jarrett211 Yeah I kinda figured that it would be a hassle. I probably will stay at whichever school unless I cannot stand being there. At the moment, I am just praying that I get into Penn. I really don’t want to have to endure RD and ruin the remainder of senior year.
My platypus is getting ready to quit. Unfortunately, he does not realize that this is a dictatorship, and he cannot simply quit.
Interview Sunday afternoon 
Good luck @VaishS
I’m visiting Case Western tomorrow. Eww Cleveland jkjk 
Good luck @shivaya :))
And I wouldn’t transfer unless I was miserable, too much work for too little chance
I live two hour away from Case
Wait really? So do I! Well 2.5ish
I feel like @TheWaffleMan149 today lol. I’m at a house party with my parents friends and they have asked where I want to apply, where I think I’ll get in, my GPA, my classes, my rank, and anything else imaginable. Like whyyyyy is this any of your business and how does it affect you :((