<p>What is SEAS ED acceptance rate? How does it compare to CAS and Wharton?</p>
<p>It’s probably slightly higher than Wharton’s. I’m not sure about how it stands relative to the college, but I’d venture to guess that it’s roughly the same.</p>
<p>just a numbers comparison: there are ~6,400 undergrads in CAS, ~2400 undergrads in wharton, and ~400 students per class at SEAS (so ~1600 undergrad total). i think part of the reason why it’s so hard to get into wharton (besides the number of applicants) is that once you’re in the school, i feel (personal opinion here) like the faculty is assuming business is what you want to do and you have to prove it to them and this is your one and only passion whereas in CAS and SEAS there’s a lot more wiggle room. overall i’d say that CAS is the “easiest” school to get into even though all the schools are very difficult</p>
<p>Over the years, the estimates have been that the acceptance rates for the individual schools are: Wharton–slightly less than Penn’s overall acceptance rate; College–roughly the same as the overall acceptance rate; SEAS–slightly higher than the overall acceptance rate; and Nursing–slightly higher than the SEAS rate. And these days, we’re talking single-digit differences here. Of course, there is self-selection that occurs in the SEAS and Nursing pools, so the slightly higher acceptance rates don’t mean that they’re necessarily “easier” to get into than the College or Wharton.</p>
<p>For some historical perspective, the chart at the bottom of this page shows the breakdown by individual school for the Class of 2007, when Penn’s overall acceptance rate was 20.5%:</p>
<p>[University</a> of Pennsylvania Admission Strategies 2007](<a href=“http://ivysuccess.com/penn.html]University”>ivysuccess.com)</p>
<p>But note that for the Class of 2014, Nursing’s acceptance rate had fallen to 20% from the 42.6% of seven years earlier:</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Nursing School admits 20 percent for 2014](<a href=“http://www.thedp.com/article/2010/02/nursing_school_admits_20_percent_for_2014]The”>Nursing School admits 20 percent for 2014 | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>
<p>And since the admission of that class, Penn’s overall acceptance rate has fallen another 2-3 points to 12%. So although the same general relative relationships may hold for the acceptance rates of the individual schools, they’re obviously much lower and closer together than they were for the Class of 2007.</p>