http://www.thedp.com/article/2016/11/early-decision-numbers
This year, Penn received 5,999 applications in the Early Decision round
The number will be even higher after the questbridge app numbers come in. Meaning that Penn will have over 6000 ED applications. Which also means Penn could fill its incoming class with ED applicants nearly 3 times. And that’s more than any other ivy with Early Decision, if i’m not mistaken.
I’m waiting to hear the total number because that’s what usually reported. I guess the percentage accepted early is going to fall again.
As an ED applicant to Wharton, that number is terrifying.
Hate to say, However, It seems that most recruits choose Wharton. Wharton also attracts a lot of special students (with wealthy and influential families). It is really hard for applicants with no hooks or anti-hooks.
What are you basing that off @f2000sa
@Klayyy @f2000sa do you think the majority of these applicants are applying for wharton or seas…do you think the cas number is about the same…
The majority of students ED and RD apply to the college of arts and sciences. Compared to it’s class size, wharton attracts a disproportionate number of applicants. But the College attracts the most applicants in both rounds of admissions.
I agree that probably the majority of athletic recruits apply to wharton and that wharton has more development cases than the other schools at Penn (development cases meaning scions of major dynasties in business who have donated heavily and are very well-connected). Both athletes and development cases are favored immensely during ED so that drives chances for wharton admission even further down for non-hooked applicants.
I do not think anyone can say with certainty which specific school the majority of all the 6000+ ED applicants are applying to.
According to every available DP article about early decision applicants from before Penn stopped reporting data by school, the College has always gotten the largest number of applicants (if not a majority, than a plurality). After the 2008 great recession, Wharton saw a pretty huge dip in ED applicants and has slowly been recovering as national attention shifts away from Wharton’s bread and butter: wall street, and towards silicon valley. There is no reason to believe that the number of applicants at each school has changed. Additionally, Dean Furda has said on numerous occasions to tour guides that each school during each round gets a share of the applications that roughly correlates to the size of the school. while past performance isn’t an indication of future outcomes, there isn’t really a reason to believe that the numbers have changed very much. Sure there are more engineering apps than before, but there are also significantly more college, wharton and nursing apps too.
@Penn95 “I do not think anyone can say with certainty which specific school the majority of all the 6000+ ED applicants are applying to.”
Do you mean pro rata? I would think it has to be CAS just based on the fact that it is so much larger than Wharton or SEAS.
I do agree that Wharton probably has a disproportionate share of early applicants and athletes. I also suspect that SEAS and the hard sciences in CAS probably get a lower percentage of athletes because they can be time consuming and more difficult to balance with a sport.
Not surprising, ED apps have been steadily rising. I predict Yale SCEA will be up considering they made more spaces available this year by building (what is it 2?) new residence halls this year. This should be a banner year for # applicants to Yale SCEA. Following both closely. Good Luck to all!
Yale’s are up 9 percent http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/11/15/early-applications-increase-by-9-percent/
6,075 applications this year – a record number
^I am guessing this figure includes Questbridge?
Yes, that’s the total number Penn is announcing, with the Questbridge number. So it’s been up 5% each of the last two years.