<p>Smilefriends - I thought Hazmat was talking about all the Wharton statistics majors who <em>should</em> have jumped on the inaccuracies of the DP story and written in . . .</p>
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<p>Yes. Well, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I think its "Wharton School of Finance and Commerce" rather than "Commerce and Finance" </p> </blockquote>
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<p>Well done.</p>
<p>So what else is new?</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>Alright people, I want everyone who is applying to wharton to withdraw thier application.</p>
<p>ok?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>love,
bobbobbob</p>
<p>Thanks for that useful update Byerly. You're always such a helpful poster. Without you, I wouldn't know what to think about Penn (or any other university not named Harvard)--I might actually think it was a good school run by a competent administration.</p>
<p>20,300? with a class of 2400...thats like 12% total admissions rate..***?</p>
<p>If the yield was 100%....</p>
<p>hey, supposively its gonna be really high this year!</p>
<p>haha you never know</p>
<p>On the goodside, I beat the average stats in each category. On the bad side, I applied to Wharton and am still only about an 'average' candidate.</p>
<p>They'll probably take 3600 kids, for a 66% yield like last year.</p>
<p>they wont take 3600 kids for the very reason that last year the no. of students who accepted the offer was very very high and created sum problems.. this time they are planning to accept a consiedrably lower no. of students and jump on to the WAITLIST bandwagon which is horrible.. </p>
<p>As already stated they will, in oredr to avoid overfilling of capacity heavily rely on the waitlist ..</p>
<p>on the contrary it also means that if ur put on the waitlist the chance of getting accepted finally would increase this year..</p>
<p>SM</p>
<p>The logic of your final statement doesn't necessarily follow. </p>
<p>If the waitlist is substantially increased in size, it does not necessarily follow that an individual on the list has greater odds of admission than he would have had last year simply because more may be admitted from the list.</p>
<p>Well. what i mean is that not only does Upenn have intentions to increase substantially the waitlist size but also major heavy plans to use it as safe measure.. when they made the statement stating their gr8er use of waitlist it meant that Larger no. of candidates will be placed there and also the class size intially wud be less... then at this point if the final enrollement is as per their expectations, the waitlist acceptance wud see a sharp rise..</p>
<p>All factors remaining constant and the wait list and admitted list exchanging students changing students, the percent is bound to increase or else if there is unusally high enrollement and matriculation at the college, then well no benefit..</p>
<p>SM</p>
<p>Wow, anyone who writes "sum," "wud" or "gr8" is a tool.</p>
<p>smartmind: The only reason that there were too many people admitted was because they didn't expect the yield to be 66%. This is an increase of 3-4% from the Class of 2008. I expect them to assume the 66% or maybe 68 or 69%, but that will certainly admit a good 3400-3600 students,</p>
<p>yes that way correct.... i got that otherwise.. recheckd data.. </p>
<p>but anyway round.. waitlist is gonna be heavy and .. respite wont cum until may1..for many..</p>
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Wow, anyone who writes "sum," "wud" or "gr8" is a tool.
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didnt get you..??</p>
<p>SM</p>
<p>One of the attractions of waitlist usage is the the admits come aboard with a juicy, ED-like 100% yield rate.</p>
<p>Wow, a lot of people applied, but the SAT averages aren't that impressive.</p>
<p>The DP article published the average SAT of all applicants. As has been previously stated, the average SAT of acceptees is considerably higher.</p>
<p>the large applicant pool may also definetely owe its share to lowering the average sat..</p>
<p>SM</p>