Penn Decision Notification Email

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<p>It's finally official!</p>

<p>Dear _________,</p>

<p>Thank you for applying Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania. We will be posting admissions decisions for Early Decision applicants online on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 6 p.m. E.S.T.</p>

<p>Your decision can be viewed by going to:
<a href="https://www.admissions.upenn.edu/decisions/mydecision.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.admissions.upenn.edu/decisions/mydecision.php&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Please bookmark this web address. You will not be able to log in until 6 p.m. on December 12.</p>

<p>The Decision website uses the same User Name and Password that you've already been using to access the MyApplicant Portal. If you need assistance with your User Name or Password, please contact the Admissions office at: <a href="mailto:eapps@admissions.upenn.edu">eapps@admissions.upenn.edu</a> </p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Penn Admissions</p>

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<p>I didn’t get mine yet… I’m sad :(</p>

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<p>Does anyone know the method they use to send it out? Is it alphabetical or regional (or maybe status…)?</p>

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<p>I think the method is random. </p>

<p>1) Its not alphabetical. I have friends from school who applied ED and we all got it randomly, in no alphabetical order whatsoever.</p>

<p>2) Its not regional. Like I said, we’re all in the same school, but we got it at different times.</p>

<p>3) Its not by status, as far as I can tell. There are like 2 people from my school (who I’m not that great friends with) who I’m 99% sure won’t get in (before you call me mean, they’re unhooked, sub 1900 SAT, and sub 3.5 GPA…by no means bad students, but not within range for Penn) and they got the email at different times.</p>

<p>By all accounts, it seems random.</p>

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<p>They’re sent out in waves:</p>

<p>first, to the best looking applicants;
second, to the most charming applicants;
third, to the wittiest applicants;
and lastly, to the most chill applicants (for obvious reasons).</p>

<p>Well, at least the very first part of that is true. ;)</p>

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<p>^ oh you almost got me ;c</p>

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<p>just a thought; maybe they are sending them out in waves because they have different websites that display the results? you know so that their website doesn’t crash from the 4000+ students viewing it at 6?</p>

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<p>no but Facebook has the bandwidth to handle 4000 people. UPenn’s website gets probably 500 visitors tops per day. I’ve heard that several college websites have crashed due to so many people checking them at once.</p>

<p>But that’s just my theory</p>

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<p>^ha well I stand corrected</p>

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<p>So I got it at 5:24 pm EST
I don’t know why they aren’t sending the email to my friend but that won’t mean anything right?
He’s really nervous</p>

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<p>I got it at 6:28PM. I feel bad now:(</p>

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<p>Don’t feel bad! Penn isn’t sending them in any particular order; just because you get an email later than someone else doesn’t mean he’s more qualified or anything. Don’t sweat it!</p>

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<p>I got the email at 3:46 EST and my last name is near the end of the alphabet. Maybe they did reverse-alphabetical? Doubt it means anything though…</p>

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<p>I think the reason they sent out the email today is because today is the final day in the committee.</p>

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<p>^^Nah, I got my email at the same time and my name is near the beginning. I’m 99.9% sure it’s random at this point.</p>

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<p>yay! i just got mine! whew relief</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. Can we actually start a compilation of when people get them and what school they are applying to?</p>

<p>Let me start. CAS-- last name-“Xu”–6:28PM</p>

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<p>CAS - last name starts “Se” - 4:09 PM</p>

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<p>Arrived at 9pm EST. SEAS</p>

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<p>Wharton - last name W - 3:26pm EST</p>