University of Penn. 08 Stats

<p>adcoms shot kennedy. seriously. he was about to give a speech about how he got into Harvard.</p>

<p>lol. And watergate, pft, that was nixon trying to get his hands on a pile of papers named "Why the Ivies are Liberal: The AMerican Secret"</p>

<p>You didn't hear this from me, but the original opening was...</p>

<p>I have a dream. That one day my childrens will get into HYPMSC.</p>

<p>wow and i thought everything led to aliens. but i guess in reality they too are admission officers.</p>

<p>LOLOLOL. </p>

<p>And then, the roswell UFO thing. It was the result of Artificial INtelligence driving themselves crazy trying to figure out the human IVY admissions process and eventually crashing...yep...the world revolves around the top 10 schools... life and the future in a nut-shell...lol.</p>

<p>well, thats how it all comes together, booboo.</p>

<p>adcoms ARE aliens.</p>

<p>Roswell: 1947</p>

<p>8 adcom's are found in the desert, from the planet Xibriru. They were found in incubation pods. And also, the new species was found not to have any feelings, or concerns for teenagers dreams. They are distributed to 8 elite colleges in the East Coast. The aliens, however, wanted to still be linked together in a union that could take over the world.</p>

<p>That union?</p>

<p>THE IVY LEAGUE. founded in 1954, 7 years after the adcoms reached earth. 7 years is also the time it takes for an incubated adcom to become a full fledged application machine.</p>

<p>fast fact: adcoms are asexual. each adcom sprouted off into more adcoms, and thats how theres so many adcoms working for ivys nowadays.</p>

<p>this is seriously much better than thinking about poor Jonathon...who after he gets in has to live up to the hype and do something more productive with his life than just inherit his parents' wealth, or find himself someday......</p>

<p>I didn't mean to imply that you were overly confident or anything. </p>

<p>Is anyone her shocked about that site, or know someone, besides Jonathon, who used the program and truly got in?</p>

<p>If you look at the people who run the site/program, they are almost all ex-admissions people from harvard and yale who probably came solely for the large sums of money I am sure they make. Its just such a sleazy job!</p>

<p>Sorry, I will stop talking about it now, lol.</p>

<p>yeah I agree. It defintely takes a lot of sleaze to be in that business.</p>

<p>sleaze is in this season.
in fact i just harvested a bunch of sleaze from my backyard ranch in time for college applications</p>

<p>The Penn stats saved me, I think.</p>

<p>This year a girl in my class started a petition to eliminate class rank, and got all the signatures. As a result the BOE is allowing this year, and this year ONLY, to make class rank OPTIONAL.</p>

<p>So I was applying ED Penn along with 3 other kids, two of which are ranked higher than me and disclosing rank. My guidance counselor was like "don't you think it will look odd that two students from this school have rank and two don't? they'll assume you're ranked much lower than you really are." so i took her advice.</p>

<p>then I went and looked at the stats. They accepted 6% of kids in the second 10%, but twentysomething% of unranked kids. Would you like to know why?</p>

<p>The reason colleges want you to be in the top 10% of ur class is because their OWN ranking goes up if they have a large amount of students that were in their top 10%. Now, for kids who are unranked...they can pretty much figure out where they are in their class if they want to. But, they can accept them and it won't affect their ranking any which way or the other.</p>

<p>So no rank on my transcript. :)</p>

<p>Ummm. Are you sure? I am almost sure the acceptance rate for the unranked kids is that much higher is because A LOT OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS don't rank, but they are academically superior to a lot of the public schools that do rank. THat's why the percentage of unranked kids are accepted more. The unranked schools annoy the admissions people alot (unless the adcom knows the school very well and has a decile or something to work with)---this is what an adcom told me.</p>

<p>ooh that makes a lot of sense too!</p>

<p>but also, my school has an excellent reputation and ranking. so it can't hurt to not have rank.</p>

<p>that's pretty funny. yea i was thinking they probably just have connections... "sure i'll pretend to be working with you while i write e-mails to my best friends on adcom, it's not like everyone can pay this much money anyway"
hey u never know. maybe jonathon is the leader of his own country and is also an olympic gold medalist</p>

<p>yeah and maybe he rides the short bus</p>

<p>lolol hey man don't be mean
also, actually... we had a special program in elementary school where the brightest kids would join up w/ the brightest kids from all other elementary schools (we have like 7) and would go to one location to be the special, smart class. they all took the short bus...</p>