<p>ok i think everbody wants to see this.
this is basically a breakdown of average SAT, number applicants ED and RD.
…etc</p>
<p> <a href=“http://ivysuccess.com/university_of_pennsylvania_2008.html[/url]”>http://ivysuccess.com/university_of_pennsylvania_2008.html</a></p>
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>3,500 early applicants? That's a lot.</p>
<p>Did anyone here use ivysuccess? I came across the site a while ago and was absolutley shocked!! 18,500 dollars and no guarantee! I begged my parents to do it, I was like I will pay you back, it's an investment, you are ruining my future, but to no avail! I think there are a good number of those types of plans out there, one is even offered on CC. I think someone should write a story about all of this college madness, and look into how successful those college admissions sites actually are.</p>
<p>This is a very misleading article. Thanks for sharing it. But, the points on ED vs. RD don't correlate to a direct comparison....just an FYI.</p>
<p>In the ED section, it says the average APPLICANT's SAT was 1380. In the RD section, it says the average admitted student SAT was 1431. Who has a score of 1431???? I thought the scores werre in multiples of 10. </p>
<p>I would really like to see the average ED ADMITTED student's score and the ED applicant's score. </p>
<p>My conclusion from the article is that Penn takes about 44% of the class from ED. But, the ED and RD application pools are almost balanced so that you have a shot either way. I wish we had the average SAT of the ED admit AND the average SAT of the RD applicant. Wihtout this data, it's hard to draw conclusions...whcih may be the point.</p>
<p>bro when you AVERAGE a score, so lets say 89 people get 1500 and 11 get 1470, it AVERAGES out to get something like a 1496.7 thats what an average is</p>
<p>wow.... $20000 now</p>
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<p>Dreams do come true! My dream had always been to attend Harvard University. Thanks to Ivy Success, I recently not only found a thick envelope in my mailbox from Harvard, but also found thick envelopes from Yale, Stanford, UPenn and many other prestigious universities. My family and friends, along with faculty and peers, call my acceptances into all of the best universities in the world a miracle, especially in light of the fact that my peers were rejected from most of the colleges (even "safeties") to which they applied. I tell them that it wasn't a miracle, it was Ivy Success. Thank you Ivy Success for making my dream come true! ---------- Jonathan, New York
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<p>o.0
and wow that's a lot of money. if you had that much money to spend to begin with.... i dunno.. do something else w/ it!!</p>
<p>my mom offered me that 18,000 thing and I told her absolutely not because im going to get into a school on my own merits</p>
<p>yeah... I shelled out 40 dollars for 2 SAT prep books and that's good enough for me :)</p>
<p>haha exactley. its sick that people can buy their way into schools. i just checked out the website. all i can say is thank god i applied ED.</p>
<p>my II's are tooooooooo low (693.3333 avg) =[</p>
<p>hey, you're only 6.666666 points away from 700, thats not too low.</p>
<p>haha thanks for cheering me up, now lets see if i can get off this board and start my hw</p>
<p>MEH!!! I am too cool for packaging...I really am. Besides, I would rather spend the money on something useful, like Penn stuff, or an IPod with Penn carved on the back, or something...wait..this is turning into an obsession...</p>
<p>Thestonedpandas, I am so jealous, because I will not be getting in on my own merits or at all for that matter. But good for you for turning it down!</p>
<p>Jonathon is a trophy hunter. Jonathon has rich parents. Jonathon had 1260 and 1350 on his SAT's. That is all you know.</p>
<p>Don't you think that what you don't know makes the story much more interesting? How many of you don't think his parent is the CEO of some huge enterprise that has a huge granting foundation or a mega entertainment mogul...or something of that ilk. Or maybe Jonathon has won a gold medal in the Olympics, who knows..who cares.</p>
<p>Not real life.</p>
<p>No, I don't mean that I'm confident that I'm getting in on my merits, but I just think that it would have been horribly unfair for me to do so.</p>
<p>what i think is:
that since they are ex-ivy admissions officers, they probably have some sort of connection to current admission officers.
and use persuasion (*hint x2 *nudge x2) to admit you into the college</p>
<p>yeah, what can they do anyway in your senior year that would help you? write your essays and thats it. recs, sats 1 and 2, rank and grades, and curriculum can't be changed by some website. they could probably make up ec's for you or something sneaky like that though.</p>
<p>Or the ex-adcoms made a duplicate of their office keys, and just "drop in" the admissions office in the middle of the night for a "friendly visit" and sneak your app into the "admit" pile. Conspiracy theories, I luv them.</p>