<p>Hi! I got put on the waiting list and I am required to make a decision reply to UPenn in order to stay on the waiting list. I noticed on the bottom of the reply page, it asks me to put in what other schools I applied to and if I got accepted or denied by them. My question is: Would the information I put into these boxes affect my admission decisions? Thank you all.</p>
<p>If they’re asking, I have a feeling it would. I don’t really trust people/schools that ask stuff like that in order to make decisions about you.</p>
<p>I think it’s better to be honest and just say where you got in. Just make sure you express that penn is your number one choice</p>
<p>I applied to 19 schools and got only got into 4 of them… So should I just list the only 4 I got in?</p>
<p>I was thinking only listing the school you got rejected from might actually help, because they see that you have no other colleges to back up into, so they are inclined to help you out and accept you. Any thoughts about that?</p>
<p>So I applied to 19 schools, and the only 4 I got into was Penn State, Notre Dame, NYU, and Emory. I got rejected by all Ivies, excluding UPenn. Got reject from Stanford, MIT, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, UChicago.</p>
<p>Should I honestly put all 19 schools and their decisions? Or should i just put the ones that I got accepted into, or the only ones I got rejected from?</p>
<p>19 is a bit excessive, in your case i would only put acceptances and waitlist</p>
<p>Penn has always been the poster child for Ivy League Tufts Syndrome – it fears that it is the perennial backup second choice for Ivy aspirants. This explains why Penn has leaped full throttle into the ED wars, accepting this year almost 50% of its class in the ED round and letting it be known that it wants to “see the love” before accepting you. It is freakishly paranoid about its status among the Ivies. It doesn’t surprise me that they are asking this very personal question (which no other school asks) in order to gauge its status among your options. If you put down you were accepted by another Ivy, but Penn is your first choice, they will gloat and love on that. If you put down that you were rejected by other Ivies and Penn is your only Ivy left, they will look down on you, as they don’t want to be your Ivy backup. Penn wants to know that it trumped another Ivy–any Ivy–in your thinking. If you weren’t accepted by another Ivy that they can gloat over, I don’t think you have much of a chance. If this is the case, it really doesn’t much matter what you put down as being accepted to or not, although in light of their paranoia, I would put down maybe one rejection only from, say, Stanford (which most Penn students as well as Harvard students for that matter were rejected from), Duke, and maybe one other, and then list your one or two most competitive acceptances.</p>
<p>placido, I can’t tell if you’re being somewhat facetious or if you actually believe what you wrote (and I’d like to hope I’m not feeding a ■■■■■). I know lots of people who have chosen Penn over other Ivies (including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and non-Ivy Stanford). I’d say “tons” except once you get to college, you tend to not ask people “oh, where else did you get in?” because it’s not relevant.
Penn does ED for a few reasons, some of which include making the acceptance rate look lower (because of a few reasons) and because they do want kids who want to come to Penn–but then, most of the other Ivies and tons of other schools do that as well.</p>
<p>I can’t say why they ask, but it’s probably a statistics thing, and they likely would use it in future years to help predict yield, etc. Honestly, you can probably just email an admin officer and ask. It might even look good that you are curious as to how they will use the information and not just blindly fill it in (shows you’re inquisitive). That’s just a conjecture of mine though, no basis in fact.</p>
<p>Penn doesn’t need to be yield protective because they have tons of people who want to come. Off the top of my head, my friends in CAS chose Penn over Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth… etc. Additionally, many people tell me they wish they had applied early because they couldn’t imagine going anywhere else.</p>
<p>I agree with listing your acceptances and probably just one rejection (Stanford). Listing them all can indicate that you are wishy-washy or there is a consensus that you are not top tier material. Stanford may be the only wrong school and other fine Penn students have been rejected by Stanford before.
But the schools that have accepted you should provide superb education if it comes to that.</p>
<p>Is it just me, or does this option not exist anymore to tell them?</p>
<p>Do you guys think that the time in which you responded to the wait list will affect your chances?</p>
<p>^ I wouldnt think so. I am under the impression they dont really look at the waitlist until may 1st, because they don’t know their official yield until may 1st.</p>
<p>Do you guys think that sending an email to Penn or having my guidance counselor call to communicate my continued interest in the school will help? I put on the form my honest decisions, indicating I had been accepted into 6 schools (Rutgers, TCNJ, Maryland-College Park, William and Mary, Tufts, and Fordham) and waitlisted at 3 others (Northwestern, Columbia, and Brown). I hoped that Penn would see my waitlists at other schools as an indication I would be more likely to attend if admitted, because besides my full ride at Rutgers and the fact that I absolutely love William and Mary (neither of which were communicated on the form), there’s no school that would seem, in their eyes at least, more attractive to me. It really is my top choice, and even though I really love W&M, if I am admitted to Penn off of the waitlist I will almost definitely attend (I have removed myself from all other waitlists except for Penn, as I don’t see myself realistically attending any other school besides Penn or W&M). </p>
<p>Also- I have a history teacher who is an alumnus. I didn’t have him write my letter of recommendation, but would it be a good idea for me to ask him to call on my behalf? I’d ask my GC to call, but she’s a bit of a head case and I don’t really trust her at all.</p>
<p>I just changed my mind and declined my spot on the waitlist b/c I finally got a finaid package from my other number 1 school. Good luck everyone waiting it out!</p>