<p>^UChicago is EA, non-binding, unrestrictive.</p>
<p>^ Yep, apples and oranges. :)</p>
<p>By the way, 45 Percenter, usually I agree with you, but in the case of extending an application deadline, I know of many people (both freshman this year and incoming freshman) that applied to Penn early solely because they were able to given the extended deadline (and not because of inclement weather). That said, in general, those people have told me they were much less confident in their essays and believed that if they had started earlier, they would have felt much better about their applications. </p>
<p>To all the prospective freshmen, I wouldn’t worry too much about how the extended deadline might have affected the number of people who applied. Those who applied after the original deadline (which I heard was a majority) either would have applied anyway, or wrote pretty crappy essays.</p>
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Seriously? You think that a significant number of applicants, after months to ponder and decide whether they’d apply early decision, suddenly decided at the last minute to apply ED to Penn simply because they were given an extra 5 days? Maybe that’s what some people have told you, but I find it hard to believe that more than a handful of applicants would decide at the last minute to apply early decision just because they were suddenly given an extra 5 days at the very end of the process. Especially given that there were around 4500 ED applicants for each of the previous two years, and well over 3500 ED applicants for the several years before that.</p>
<p>But hey, that’s just the way I see it. ;)</p>
<p>And of course, virtually all of Penn’s peers also extended their early deadlines, so it would have been kind of silly for Penn not to have done the same. :rolleyes:</p>