Great news! Thanks a lot everyone!
Thank you for the info. Crossing my fingers this group sees the most WL admits. So do you give your name each time you call or do you stay anonymous?
Okay I know Reddit is not the most reliable place but apparently someone called the office and they said if thereās any movement, it will be in June. So the responses of the two AOās are actually contradicting. This is really confusing and I was just happy that they were gonna admit off the waitlist but now Iām concerned again 
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I read the reddit chat. The person who said that was corrected. They said the WL admits would happen in June, but the Penn information actually says May through June.
And my school counselor called her Penn contact and she told my counselor May through Juneāand sometimes July and right before school is even possibleā¦ and the admit numbers get smaller as the summer progressesāso May is the bigger wave.
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Thanks for this information! I hope everyone in this thread will receive a Penn acceptance this month! Manifesting for you all!!
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They never ask and I prefer to stay anonymous plus I donāt think they check caller id.
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Hi There! Iām an international waitlist who hasnāt applied for financial aid. (Penn is Need-Aware though?). Does anyone have an idea on what the distribution of waitlists is? IE. Are there different waitlists for CAS, Wharton, Engineering etc.
Hi! Congratulations to you on your award, not an easy feat to be a Top 10 Student! Just to inform you I called the Admissions Office, and asked about the applications. A representative actually told me to ensure not to send any updates, because if I do it might irk the committee, or might not even get processed, because the Waitlisted applications are currently under review as they are, with of course, the addition of the LOCI document. Maybe she was just saying it so students donāt additionally burden the AC? I would definitely recommend calling and asking them once before you send anything now!
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I also got the same info when I called the AO! The representative told me that Early June is the earliest they send out decisions. Does anyone know anything that suggests otherwise?
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Yeah someone in this thread called as well and they said they will start in May!
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Iāve read so much about the arguments for or against sending updates, but Iām just going for it.
Theyāve kept that Waitlist Update button live so Iām using it.
I sent a LOCI in mid April, my counselor called, and this is my second update.
My school is sending another LOR.
Been spacing things out about every two weeks to stay on the radar, but not be a stalker.
I gotta stay on the radar for when I donāt make it off WL in the first wave!
Maybe itāll kill my chances, but I think it will just be ignored in the worst case. The most likely scenario is that Iām not getting off the WL, but I think Iāll be happier knowing I sent it than always wondering What If.
Did you guys read about that kid last year who sent memes like every other day and got in! LOL! I donāt have the courage to do anything like that!
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Does anyone know the distribution of waitlist between the schools (cas, seas, etc)? I got waitlisted for seas and just wondering if that makes a difference.
Iāve read that the waitlist numbers are proportionally divided based on the college sizes and admit targets/limits for the each of colleges. Like āXā number of total waitlist is CAS waitlist and āYā is to cover SEAS.
Yes, I recall being told once that UPenn considers admissions only specific to the different colleges. So I assume they will be different waitlists for different schools.
Youāre right! Go for it. Do your best, leave the rest lmao. The waitlist is so tiring
guys am I the only one who feels disappointed when Princeton and Columbia accepts that many off the waitlist? Donāt get me wrong Iām super happy for those who got admitted, but seeing them and seeing other schools like UPenn who probably will not use the waitlist as much as them makes me kinda sad. Like Princeton literally defied the expectations, I. wish UPenn did the same as well. I feel like I am missing this opportunity.
where does the notion that penn wont use the waitlist as much stem from? people here called and said that theyāre going to utilize the waitlist - to an extent that is not known by us - but an extent regardless. On top of this, Iāve seen only like 5 people get off. Relax, our time will come, we just have to be patient.
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5 people have gotten off pennās waitlist?
no the columbia waitlist
Penn is need blind for all domestic students and a few foreign countries, what country are you from? Penn does waitlist by school and if you login to applicant portal it tells you what school youāre waitlisted for. We donāt know the number of students waitlisted for each school but I do know that Wharton consists of 15% of Pennās student population, however there is more than 15% of the applications that are for Wharton because of its competitiveness. Waitlist wise, they never release information like this but personally I think waitlist numbers will be kept consistent to school student proportion for Wharton since despite receiving more applications, they also expect a higher yield rate so thereās no true need of waitlisting a bunch of people. I again would expect the waitlist number to be greater than the student proportion for schools/majors that are not as popular at Penn since they have lower yield rates.
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