<p>im just curious, did anyone else get deferred from SEAS (which experienced a 17% increase in RD apps this year). if so, what are your thoughts?</p>
<p>hell, even if you weren’t deferred, what are your thoughts on this…?</p>
<p>what do you guys think this spells for deferred students?</p>
<p>To be honest, I have always viewed SEAS as an easier way to get into Penn. Before I decided to apply to CAS ED, I was planning to apply to M+T (for the hell of it) and SEAS as my backup RD to almost double my chances (my school has about 50 kids apply to Penn, about 5 to Wharton and 0 to SEAS) because I would be losing the ED boost, and then try out BME before working to transfer to CAS or Wharton. Maybe there are people who also had this plan in mind. Maybe there are people who are trying to backdoor their way into Penn and the Ivy League (Penn and Columbia SEAS have much higher acceptance rates than their CASs). That is my guess anyway.</p>
<p>This sucks. I applied RD, and it makes me really sad that many people who truly WANT to study engineering at Penn (like myself) will probably be bumped because of people looking for an easy way in.</p>
<p>'backdooring' the college or wharton through SEAS is actually a quite uncommon route, this is because transfers between schools are governed stricly based on GPA. To transfer into Wharton for example, one generally needs about a 3.7, which is a very difficult thing to pull off in SEAS as a freshman.</p>