Anyone know if any Ivy besides Harvard has released yield data?
@karen0, ED is the best opportunity to be admitted to Penn no matter how great the applicant is. The result of another SAT subject taken in Oct should be available for the admissions committee before the decision made if your DD submits the application to Penn by Nov. 1. Good luck!!!
target class size 2445, admits 3731, Target Yield 65.53%
Actual Yield: Class 2020 Yield 68-69% , Class 2021 67%
@f2000sa Where did you get these information from?
for those of you on the waitlist but is already committed to another school what’s your plan? Eg I’m committed to UCLA and have to pay for housing on 24th May. If I withdraw from UCLA after, I have to pay another $400. Just wondering what everyone else is doing?
@nicoleguo I am in the exact same predicament as you with UCLA. Personally, I am just going to wait it out. Losing some money is worth it to me for a chance to go to Penn.
@Angelababy30 from past news release. You can get it by searching www.thedp.com. or the board
Luckily, Duke has no downpayment so I think I can just wait it out with no harm
I’m praying that this week there’ll be some notifications!
I called this morning and the lady said we’d be receiving final decisions within the next couple weeks
@bananas99 Considering in the past years kids got off the waitlist as early as May 5-8, and this year it doesn’t seem like anyone has yet, it makes me feel that there is no space for a waitlist unless a few kids take gap years or get off the waitlist at another school.
Agree. Penn should already fully filled the class.
@Laketahoe79 Either that, or they’re just really taking a long time. I mean if it was a record filled class for yield I feel like we would’ve heard about it. You never know, you shouldn’t give up!
Sorry, as I indicated last week, The class is already full. If all schools are filled, that means they are over-enrolled… a lot…
However, there is still hope. They have to accommodate all enrolled students. Once it is done, there will be opening if someone drops out.
So there will be a few on WL that are very very lucky. Do not expect massive drawing from WL. That is perhaps why Dean Funda advised all to embrace the school that admits you.
The extended WL is used for such purpose. In the past, Penn used extended WL after they already filled the class with WL.
@f2000sa How do you know the class is already full? Do you work at Penn? You seem to have a lot of helpful info.
@elcapitan I do not work for Penn, and have been here for several years, and I am pretty sure I am correct.
- If the class was not full, Penn would not be so patient. They are eager to have a full class and get the best students.. That is why they called as early as May 3rd in the past years, and made phone calls even during the weekend.
2, They admit the class with the expected yield less than 66%, In the past year, the yield is usually around 67 to 68%.
- there is no report of students getting from WL from any school which indicate that all schools may be full. Is so, they over-admit a lot.
- Extended WL is used after the class is full to fill the dropouts of committed students In the past year, they fill the class from WL, and then do the extended WL.
They will issue a news release after they close the WL.
At this point, most top tie schools already closed the waiting list. When there is no movement there, it’s also done here. Drop out is such a rare case. We are going to pay the first deposit to our committed school this week. Good luck!
@f2000sa – Quick question – If you are correct that the class is OVER enrolled, why do you think Penn will go the extended wait list at all, even if some drop out?
It seems to me if Penn is over enrolled, they need to lose a few committed students just to get to 100%, and they wouldn’t replace those kids. Why would they want to be above 100%? If they were okay with that number, wouldn’t it be the new 100%? I think if you are correct about over enrollment, they won’t go to WL at all, and they are merely being overly cautious in the rare event they lose enough kids to go below 100% of target. Either that, or they are not really over enrolled, but merely at target.
Thoughts?
If Penn really is over-enrolled and not going to use the wailist, they really should stop giving us false hope with wailist updates. Why can’t they just drop us? Why do they need to hold onto us until June? How many students are ACTUALLY going to drop out of Penn in the next weeks. That seems highly unlikely. They don’t need a wailist full of kids for that.
I don’t believe the class is over-enrolled, the FB group is not a great indicator, but it has 2298 members, and I know for certain there are a bunch of kids in that group who are going to other universities. The target is 2445.