<p>What do the admissions people do when you have more that 1 person applying from the same high school to Penn. Do they compare the students and advance the one with higher stats?</p>
<p>no i dont think so. they do compare applicants but they pick more than just one if your school is "competitive" and sends kids to that school every year. they also compare your school's kids with kids across the state i think</p>
<p>I was reading an article my interviewer gave me about it and they go through and put a little more than twice the number of kids they can accomodate into the acceptance pile. THen they go back and try to cut out candidate which they base on a bunch of different things but one is the number of students from a certain area. If one city has 20 kids they might drop about 5 from that city instead of dropping the only kid from another city. They do this until they get a little less than twice their class size because only about half the kids who get in actually go there.</p>
<p>only half of the kids getting into upenn go..whoa! I tought it was more along the lines of 80%.it s such a great place.</p>
<p>i think this year penn actually accepted a smaller percentage of people because more people matriculate penn compared to the average of 50% matriculation for other schools</p>
<p>according to my interviewer there should be a higher percentage of people because not as many people applied as usual. And the article said 54% matriculated last year.</p>
<p>The yield rate was 66% for the class of 2009, not 54%. And the number of applications this year are also up.</p>
<p>excel, Even though many admissions reps will tell you that you are not competing directly against the other students applying from your own class, I don't believe that. Several books on college admissions I've read claim that that the schools do just that. There's also an article about Penn admissions from several years back. Lee Stetson asks the other admissions officers about the strength of that year's applicant pool from a particular HS when they were considering whether or not to admit an individual applicant. Some schools have reputations such that a college will take numerous applicants from that HS, however.</p>
<p>Also, I believe that baggin's interviewer was referring to RD yield. ED yield is 100%, obviously, which raises the total yield.</p>