<p>my brother just heard on bloomberg news that penn ed rates are down 2.5 percent due to a lack of asian applicants applying early this year. i cant believe it my wildest dreams came true!</p>
<p>AH! :) That's the happiest news I've heard in quite a while. I hope you're right!</p>
<p>uhh...this a lie?</p>
<p>im a hundred percent serious. i didnt hear it myself so i cant say that im a 100 percent sure. but my brother works for a hedge fund that is mostly penn pple and one of his coworkers told him so he turned it on and listened to the report himself.</p>
<p>they also said that the statistics would appear in the next edition of the daily pennsylvanian.</p>
<p>uh, what???</p>
<p>the lack of asian applicants part sounds sketchy. since when do colleges talk about things like that?</p>
<p>oh, you're serious?? i wasn't sure if this was a joke or not.</p>
<p>yea.. I know SO many asians who applied ED</p>
<p>wait, so....ed rates went down as....the percentage of people accepted are going down? as in they made all the decisions already? and why would that make your dreams come true? because there are less asians competing?</p>
<p>sorry, please elaborate.</p>
<p>I cant find the link on bloomberg with the story</p>
<p>oh, you mean 2.5% less people applied?</p>
<p>wow haha.</p>
<p>omg. if this doesn't turn out to be true...</p>
<p>i think its BS</p>
<p>yea, dailypennsylvanian.com doesn't have it.
I've been searching all over the internet and can't find anything!
mandy89, do you have a link to an article or you just heard it from your brother?</p>
<p>Yea, and the fact they said Asian applicants went down sounds pretty suspicious. I don't think the University would release that kind of info., because it doesn't mean much.
Also, by saying Penn ED Rates went down, I thought you meant the acceptance rate went down. You should've said the number of applicants went down by 2.5 percent, or is that not what you meant?</p>
<p>Anyway, I hope you're right and the number of apps. DECREASED!!!
Good news, mandy89!</p>
<p>here is the proof my bro sent me the link</p>
<p>By Emily Sachar
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The number of students applying for
early decision from the University of Pennsylvania is down 2.5
percent this year, almost entirely because of a drop in Asian
applicants, Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson said today.
At the same time, the school received a record number of
applicants from 19 states and a 13.1 percent increase in students
applying from overseas. Penn also saw growth in the number of
black students seeking early admission, to 206 from 172 last
year, Stetson said in an interview.
Stetson said Penn remains the Ivy League school with the
largest early decision pool and he is not concerned about the
drop in applications to 4,001 students from 4,120 last year. Last
year, Penn saw a 21 percent increase in the number of early
applicants, who are bound to attend the school to which they
apply, he added.
<code>Early decision is alive and well at Penn and is working
well for us,'' Stetson said, referring to the decision by both
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Princeton
University in New Jersey to end their early application programs
after this year. Harvard's program is non-binding; Princeton's is
binding.
Stetson did not offer an explanation for the drop in the
number of Asian applicants. Asians represented 23 percent of
Penn's entering class this year, Stetson said.</code>They are a very
important part of the mix here, and that is not changing,'' he
said.
In 2005, Penn admitted 47 percent of this year's entering
class of 2,385 students through early decision. The early
admission rate was 28.6 percent, with 1,182 students accepted,
compared with a 13 percent acceptance rate among students who
apply regular decision.
States with record numbers of applicants to Penn include
Washington, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and
Vermont.
Penn, founded by Benjamin Franklin, is the oldest university
in the country, according to its Web site. It enrolls nearly
10,000 undergraduates and has more than 4,200 faculty.</p>
<p>--Editor: Porter.</p>
<p>Story Illustration: For information on Penn, see its Web
site at <a href="http://www.penn.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.penn.edu</a>.</p>
<p>To contact the reporter on this story:
Emily Sachar in New York at +1-212-617-3815 or
<a href="mailto:esachar@bloomberg.net">esachar@bloomberg.net</a></p>
<p>To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Glenn Holdcraft at +1-212-617-8698 or
<a href="mailto:gholdcraft@bloomberg.net">gholdcraft@bloomberg.net</a></p>
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<p>omg if this is true that would be amazing :) :D</p>
<p>also when i said that my wildest dreams came true i meant that i was happy that less people applied.</p>
<p>AAH! YAY! I'm Asian! This is very very good!</p>
<p>Explain what is so amazing about this, There are only about 100 less applicants, then last year.</p>
<p>beautiful..... good job mandy89!
I thought I would be the first to get the Early stats for Penn (I looked at dailypennsylvanian.com 5 times every day; never thought about other sources), but you beat me to it!</p>