<p>There are definitely people at Penn who applied ED who would not have qualified for any other Ivy. This is especially true of certain legacies who applied ED. But once you get to college, you realize that it’s good to be in a place with a broad spectrum of student ability. If everyone at a college has sky-high ability, it’s really hard to shine. Ability is much more uniformly high in Wharton than CAS and it consequently leads to a significant amount of pain/stress for everyone involved…</p>
<p>I think a Wharton class is about 540 students, and they accept about 700-750. there are 9 freshman cohort groups, and each has about 60 people, so that’s why I’m guessing 540.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is really much of a difference between people admitted ED versus RD, at least not in ability judging from the people I know. I also would say that I have been more impressed with the average engineer than the average student from Wharton even though engineering is supposed to theoretically be the least selective school.</p>
<p>Penn ED was already losing strong people to Stanford/Yale SCEA…I would not expect much of a difference. I would guess that the Stanford/Yale crowd just splits up into 4 groups, not that Harvard/Princeton SCEA will suddenly lure away Penn ED applicants who weren’t very smitten with Stanford/Yale.</p>
I do not agree with this in most cases … there is a lot of time between the ED application deadline and when seniors need to decide among their RD choices … applying ED eliminates almost a full year of a student’s time to decide their preferred school. IMO for this who know their definate first choice then ED is a great option … for those who do not have a clear preference for one school I’d recommend EA and RD applications.</p>