<p>After thoroughly reviewing your application, the Selection Committee has been unable to approve your request for admission to the University of Pennsylvania for the transfer class entering in September 2005.</p>
<p>Our selection process while necessarily formal is essentially highly personal. The application was designed to gather information about you. The admissions officer who read it highlighted the uniqueness and strength of your credentials and the final review before our committee of faculty and admissions officers was a search for the qualities that would best serve the University community and the educational offerings available here.</p>
<p>In making admissions decisions, there are no fixed or arbitrarily chosen standards by which to measure an individual application. The only real standard we have is our knowledge of the size and academic quality of the applicant pool and our knowledge of the special talents applicants might bring to the University. Therefore, all aspects of your application, the academic and non-academic, were judged in comparison to the other candidates. We are confident that most of our applicants are more than qualified to successfully pursue a program of study at Penn. Only a relatively small percentage of these candidates, however, can be chosen. We are sorry that we were unable to offer you admission, but I hope I have been able to clarify our admissions process. While I imagine that this decision is a difficult one for you, please understand that all decisions of the committee are final.</p>
<p>Thank you for considering Penn and best wishes for the years ahead.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>I'm fine with it. Sure, it took a few minutes to settle in, but I really think that I had a strong application and a lot to offer the university. They didn't agree, but I don't really care. I'm still a great person with high ambitions and a lot to be proud of. I'm probably going to end up going to McGill this year, which is still a great school. </p>
<p>It's dated May 6th. Good luck to everyone else.</p>
<p>azrioch...i'm sorry to hear that. good luck on whatever you choose to do next year. as for the rest of us, i guess we have to just wait and see.</p>
<p>danman, I received an email asking for an additional recommendation. They said that they were impressed with the research I had done on the school and they requested a recommendation from a professor at UF. I got the same email the week before I got into Dartmouth, so I'm hoping it's a good omen. I hope that clears up some of the confusion. Good luck, hopefully we'll hear soon.</p>
<p>I think it is definitely a good sign; if you were to be rejected, UPenn would not bother asking for the additional information. The fact that they are asking for additional information most likely means that, if fulfilled sufficiently - as in if the recommendation is good enough - you will be accepted.</p>
<p>brpstn, no they were not from UF professors. After my first semester, I did not feel comfortable asking any of the professors for recommendations. This semester however, in response to both Dartmouth and Penn's requests, I received recommendations from two of my professors (I was offered a Teaching Assistant position for my computer programming professor, and I had the highest grade in my Diff. Equations class). I had both recommendations sent to Dartmouth when they first requested it, and I got in there, and then I had them sent to Penn (we'll see how that goes).</p>
<p>Here is a link to my stats; they may be a bit outdated, but it provides a decent amount of information:</p>
<p>Good luck everyone, and thanks for the support guys. Nspeds, I'm sorry about Yale, I thought you were as strong a candidate as any. I'm sure you'll get good news soon.</p>