Released Wharton Admissions Statistics

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<p>I got this new information today in an e-mail that I'm not sure everyone has access to. Here are the real statistics for this entering class: (I'm not sure whether this is for Penn as a whole or for Wharton)</p>

<p>Middle 50% range of SAT scores:
From: 1380
To: 1520</p>

<p>SAT scores:
Mean: 1441
Median: 1460</p>

<p>Specific to Wharton:</p>

<p>Percentage of applicants admitted to the program (selectivity)?: 10 %
Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled (yield): 76 %</p>

<p>Personally, I was surprised by these statistics; they seemed very low to me (Other than the admit rate which I believe is a bit high). I'm a bit relieved that it's not as competitive to get into as I thought it was.</p>

<p>Feel free to discuss if you'd like i guess</p>

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<p>Who sent the email?</p>

<p>That SAT range is consistent with the one Penn reported for the Class of 2014:</p>

<p>[College</a> Search - University of Pennsylvania - Penn - SAT®, AP®, CLEP®](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>

<p>Not sure why it would seem low to you.</p>

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<p>…that acceptance rate seems high to me…especially with the uptick in the size of the applicant pool and the fact that Penn’s acceptance rate as a whole was 12.3% this year. Where did you get this email from?</p>

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<p>CAS accceptance rate for RD is 8.7%-9%, so Wharton has to be somewhat lower, probably around 7% for RD. Nursing and to some extent SEAS inflate the overall acceptance rate to around 12%.</p>

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<p>Weird…this post is from a high schooler who says they got an email with data that no one else has access to? Also see that he’s done a chance me thread…hmmmmm</p>

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<p>@shaheirunderdog CAS RD acceptance for the class of 2015 was 9.5%. It was in a letter, I think the acceptance letter.</p>

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<p>i typed in the info on google, and I found that it is actually legitimate. No need to express suspicion without real evidence.</p>

<p>the data was published by businessweek (an extremely influential and reliable source of information) yesterday. I’ve also heard that CAS’s acceptance rate is 9% but that just can’t be true in light of the fact that Wharton’s rate (published here) is 10%.</p>

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<p>also, the report by businessweek states that the overall acceptance rate for UPENN is 14%, not 12%</p>

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<p>^ The overall acceptance rate for Penn’s Class of 2014 was 14.3%:</p>

<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>

<p>The initial overall acceptance rate (before waitlist acceptances) for Penn’s Class of 2015 was 12.3%:</p>

<p>[Admissions</a> rate drops to 12.3 percent | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“http://dailypennsylvanian.com/article/admissions-rate-drops-123-percent]Admissions”>http://dailypennsylvanian.com/article/admissions-rate-drops-123-percent)</p>

<p>Obviously, Business Week is using data for the Class of 2014 (since final data for the Class of 2015 is not yet available).</p>

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<p>@Fanatika: The Overall RD rate for all the programs combined was 9.5%, the RD rate for CAS was 8.7-9% and for Wharton was around 7%. The Overall Acceptance rate for both RD and ED for all programs combined was 12% (Caused by the inflation of Nursing and to some extent SEAS).</p>

<p>Yeah I also received that email/letter, which said the Overall rate was 9% for CAS.</p>

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<p>Emperical…the info you are referrring to is dated today…not yesterday…so I couldn’t find it yesterday. And someone saying “I got this new information today in an e-mail that I’m not sure everyone has access to” is not a source for me…</p>

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<p>@CalifLaxMom</p>

<p>The info, regardless of the fact that it says “published on 7/13/11” was actually published last night before my post, so I know for a fact that you didn’t actually go looking for the info. </p>

<p>However, I’m not here to start an argument; I’m just here to give people info that is obviously new and that not many people may have seen before. I now understand the disparities between the RD rates and the rates posted. Many speculated that Wharton’s acceptance rate was around 7.5%, but i guess the waitlist admitted the other 2.5%, bringing it to a total of 10%.</p>

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<p>^ I think you’re still confusing last year’s acceptance rate with this year’s. The acceptance rate and data used by Business Week is for the Class of 2014, when the overall acceptance rate was 14.3%. The overall acceptance rate (so far) for the class of 2015 is 12.3%. To my knowledge, nobody estimated Wharton’s total (ED + RD) acceptance rate for the Class of 2014 to be 7.5%.</p>

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<p>@shaheirunderdog. Thanks for the clarification, makes more sense now.</p>

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<p>can someone post a link of this info please?</p>

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<p>emp: Someone saying “I got this new information today in an e-mail that I’m not sure everyone has access to” is not the same as saying it’s from businessweek. I did look for it didn’t really track it to that source as your info was sketchy. </p>

<p>poste: I think this is it (but I’m not the “expert”:
[University</a> Of Pennsylvania: Undergraduate Profile - BusinessWeek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

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<p>My username probably makes me look biased, but according to both the Wharton officers at my Penn Preview and the Wharton 2015 FB group itself, the RD rate was 5.4% and the overall was 7.5%, before waitlist and likely excluding dual-degree programs.</p>

<p>Though if the OP posts the original email and it’s from an official source then I will stand corrected.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah that’s where I got the 7% from also.</p>

<p>For RD Wharton was 5.4% and CAS was 8.7%, overall for RD and ED combined Wharton was 7.5% and CAS was 9.9%. The overall admit rate of of all programs combined for RD and ED was 12%(Due to the inflation of Nursing and to some extent SEAS).</p>

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<p>I also remember reading somewhere that Penn stopped releasing information to BusinessWeek a few years ago, so their numbers are often based largely on estimates</p>

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<p>Isn’t the sat scores a kittle low? Does it only include math and reading?</p>