<p>Does anyone know what the stats at Wharton are? What percentage of Wharton applicants are accepted? What about CAS?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>wharton--13% of approx 5000</p>
<p>I think it was 8% RD for Wharton.</p>
<p>during re-visits, the school told us that the overall acceptance rate was 9%. Present were both ED and RD people.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm not sure where I got 8% from. It was 5% RD and 13% overall.</p>
<p>5500 applicants - 9% acceptance rate overall</p>
<p>it was supposed to be hush-hush ;) but yes wharton is 9% regular, 5% rd</p>
<p>At Previews, they told us that Wharton's acceptance rate was 9% overall this year.</p>
<p>9% that is low</p>
<p>CAS had 11% RD</p>
<p>Gawd I've never seen so many wrong #'s. 9% overall, 5% RD this year.</p>
<p>Wharton got over 7000 applications this year (including joint prgs), which is around 1/3 of the total # of applications to all of Penn undergrad but they only have 1/6th of the # of spots. 5500 is the # from some previous year. So Wharton is about 2x as hard to get into as "rest of Penn" combined and about even with HYPSM. I don't know how "rest of Penn" breaks down between CAS, SEAS, Nurs. but it's sort of a dirty little secret that Col. people and the admissions office get all huffy about if you mention it. So I won't.</p>
<p>Penn should really start releasing separate data like Columbia does. It's misleading not to.</p>
<p>haha dirty little secret. yes pretty much kids in the college gets really ****ed off when you mention it. so when you are back in your dorm after a late night of partying or in the dining halls or whatever and discussing the acceptance rates of various schools at penn, i would definitely avoid this subject!!! those college kids will get really angry because they care so much.</p>
<p>I've said it before and I'll say it again: Wharton's low acceptance rate is more of a function of the small incoming class size than actually being THAT much harder to get into than the College or SEAS. It's just more of a crapshoot.</p>
<p>"Wharton's low acceptance rate is more of a function of the small incoming class size"</p>
<p>This is completely wrong - there are lots of small colleges w/ enrollments similar to Wharton that have 30, 40, 50% or more acceptance rates - it's a function of demand. If the College had the same # of seats as Wharton it wouldn't have the same acceptance rate. Wh. would really get even more apps (it seems like 1/2 the kids in America and a good % world wide would like to go) but people are discouraged because they realize that they don't really have much of a chance.</p>
<p>I'm not a Penn students, but from what I understand, the Wharton student body is, on average, better academically qualified than CAS and SEAS, but has significantly fewer outliers.
Basically, what this means is that although Wharton is the hardest to get into and it's students are smarter on average, the majority of the absolute best students and the absolute worst students will be at SEAS and CAS (ignoring Nursing). Oh, and the "absolute" worst probably doesn't apply for SEAS to that great of an extent.</p>
<p>s snack - where do you get this info on "outliers" from? I've never seen any data released on the distribution of scores in this way. I assume you mean , by "best" and "worst" , scores and grades. The "worst" students are largely a function of the needs of AA, athletic depts., etc. Also that definition doesn't pick up the intangibles like "leadership" that Wharton is looking for that are different than the rest of Penn. Of course there are kids as SEAS and in some of the hard science majors at CAS who have (and need) academic abilities beyond what is demanded of the Wharton curriculum but some of them are "nerds" who don't fit the profile of what Wharton wants at all. And then you have the "angry studies" majors and other lib. arts majors who wouldn't be competitive at Wharton in any way.</p>
<p>Percentage rates of admission mean absolutely nothing without the knowledge of the quality of the overall applicant pool. For instance, at Wharton, loads of athletes and other students with strong business interest but low academic qualifications apply and thus lower the acceptance rate to make the school deceptively more selective.</p>
<p>ead - where's your data that the Wharton applicant pool is of lower quality (and compared to what)? Wh. certainly gets a lot of applicants (7000+ for <500 seats) but people who know they have really slim chances don't even bother applying and wasting their time and $ - otherwise, as I said before they'd get even more.</p>
<p>I have a question about the number of wharton admits: are the dual degree program kids, making up a sizable portion of 100 students, considered part of the 500 students who are admitted? I have a hard time believing only ~400 students are admitted to only wharton...</p>