<p>It looks like the Penn newspaper goofed in reporting this. Seems to me that they should have said an 8% increase in TOTAL number of apps not in RD apps. Last year's TOTAL number of apps for Class of 2009 was 18,824. This year's 20,300 would make an 8% increase for number of total, not regular apps. There was an increase in ED apps of 21% this year, and what looks like just under 5% increase for RD apps.</p>
<p>I think that will translate to an overall acceptance rate of just under 18% this year.</p>
<p>I predict around 15% for RD acceptance rate this year. Total apps = 20,300. ED apps were 4148. That makes RD apps = 16,152. Admissions is on record they want 2400 enrolled this year. They've already admitted 1180 ED so far, so that leaves another 1220 openings in the class to fill. RD yield is around 50%, so estimate around 2440 will be accepted RD. So, 2440 (estimated RD # accepted) + 1180 (actual ED # admitted) = 3620. Out of 16,152 RD apps that is just about 15% !!</p>
<p>Why is Penn the only school that post great statistics constantly in articles? Thank you penn! Anyways, how do the average SAt scores for the pool compare to last year? I'm retaking the SAT I this weekend (scores are equal, above, and way above the stats posted for the pool).</p>
<p>Admissions Dean Lee Stetson said he predicts a 12-14% acceptance rate for RD. That is probably right because last year's class matriculated at a much higher percent than they had anticipated. Add on to that that Penn is now the hottest school out there (No. 4 in the USNews rankings and No. 1 in Happy to Be There) I'm guessing that the yield will be just as high if not higher than last year. Thus they will take a low percentage of students (in addition because apps are up the same percentage accepted results in actually a higher number of students) because they know the ones they accept will probably matriculate.</p>
<p>Higher Yield of students accepting admission + More Applications + Want to take more off the waitlist and be conservative = lower acceptance rate</p>
<p>BingCold - It was 28%, down from over 34% the year before.</p>
<p>IHS - I think you're right. About a third of the ED applications were deferred and roll over into RD, so that might lower the RD acceptance rate if they figure it out that way.</p>
<p>You figure 10% of Deffered students (1/3 of ED applicaionts) will get in. That's about 138 kids who will get in off the Deffered list. That leaves 2400-1180-138= 1082 Spots for the RD pool. Assuming a 50% yield, they'll take 2164 students from RD out of 16152. </p>
<p>Yesterday's story about the undergraduate admissions ("Applications up 8 Percent from Last Year," The Daily Pennsylvanian, 1/25/2006), incorrectly said that regular decision applications increased, 8 percent from last year. The number of overall applications including early decision applications increased 8 percent, while the number of regular decision applications increased by around 5 percent. The number of regular decision applications was about 16,150 while total applications are estimated at 20,300.</p>
<p>All those Whartonites must have written in after all!</p>
<p>I actually wrote in because the numbers were clearly off. Still, congratulations to Penn.</p>
<p>FYI, Hazmat, Wharton doesn't (and has never?) used The Wharton School of Business. It was the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance about 125 years ago though.</p>