From todays DP:
http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/applicant-total-upenn-admissions-penn-class-2022-philadelphia
My guess is that the bulk of the increase comes from international applicants.
@f2000sa hmm what makes you say that?
@Penn The number of domestic applicants is relatively stable, Per the interview last year with Dean Funda. Although Penn is doing a great job and becoming more popular. It at most account for 5% increases.
On the other hand, Penn is marketing aggressively abroad especially in China and India. With a surge of wealthy people, and cheap dollars, the tuition is very affordable now. There is a surge of applicants from these countries.
Common App effect.
Assuming the same yield with last year, they will admit around 2495 from RD pool, will make RD rate around 6.6 to 6.7%. The overall rate around 8.5%
Lol the article says 1 in 4 legacy rip
@WolfHaley this is only for ED class. In total legacies are about 1 in 8 I think.
@f2000sa that makes sense. Also last year the DP article said that half of the total increase was attributed to international students.
This year they admitted slightly fewer people than usual ED. I am not sure if they plan to keep the proportion of the class admitted ED stable and thus admit an overall smaller class or simply admit a slightly higher percentage of the class RD and retain the same target class size as last year.
If it is the first scenario, the target total class size would be 2385 and the acceptance rate would be 8.2%. They would need to admit 2334 RD applicants. – (2385-1312*98.7%)/46.7% = 2334
This is assuming that the ED admit/target class size number stays at ~55%, as it has in recent years and also that the ED yield and RD yield remain the same as last year, i.e. 98.7% (1336/1354) and 46.7% (1121/2403). (The # of ED admits who actually enrolled last year can be found in the CDS). The yields could be actually a bit higher since there was a slight dip last year compared to the previous few years.
If it is the second scenario, the target total class size would be 2445 like last year and the acceptance rate would be around 8.5%.They would need to admit 2463 RD applicants. --(2445 - 1312*98.7%)/46.7% = 2463
Again assuming the yields remain the same.
In any case most likely the acceptance rate will be in the 8-8.5% range unless there is a significant change in yield.
@wolfHaley “Lol the article says 1 in 4 legacy rip”
That is only for ED. Legacy doesn’t help applicants in RD.
@Penn95 @Much2learn I’m a deferred ED applicant to Wharton… do you guys happen to know how many people of the 7,000 or so ED applicants were deferred? I’ve heard about 14% of deferred applicants are then accepted later on, but I’m not thinking it’s likely for an acceptance for me — no legacy nor URM
@collegecrazy2017
I’ve been told that historically the admit rate for deferred ED applicants has been similar to or slightly better than the regular admissions rate.
Also, Penn does not offer a legacy bump during regular admissions so that is not a disadvantage.
From previous discussion, the admit rate for deferred is much better than regular, about double. You can find the number in the deferred threads of past years.
Thank you! Do you know how many people were deferred out of the 7,000 ish ED applicants?
@collegecrazy2017 They usually defer around 20% of the applicants.
10 years ago, the class of 2012 had 22k applications – http://www.thedp.com/article/2008/02/total_application_numbers_steady
Almost double the number of applicants this year. Crazy…
The trend will surely continue. More and more international students come here studying. Not only colleges, but also high schools. They are see even higher rate of increasing. .