Anyone else applying for Social Impact & Responsibility major in Wharton?
there was a reddit post saying december 16 @7pm but idk, take it w a grain of salt…
That was last year’s ED time and date. Maybe it’ll be the same this year!
Oh yeah, you’re right. Well, I hope that’s the case!
Good luck! 
Yesterday my counselor got an email from a penn AO asking for context of my senior year schedule. My counselor said that’s a good sign for admissions. What do you think? My counselor explained the classes I was taking and attached my senior schedule with grades for the first quarter. Did anybody else get this request from penn admissions and what does this mean? I saw on a different forum that some other students got contacted the same day my counselor got contacted, but they got contacted for senior 1st quarter grade, while I got contacted for context of senior year schedule. PLEASE HELP!!
I thought you already responded by your own in the previous thread.
Why would the third question they ask you on the common app be, “Do you intend to apply for financial aid?”
Why even ask that question on the common app if they are truly need blind? If they were truly need blind that question should not even be there.
If you think about it, they are eventually need aware at the end. Penn is the one who mainly distributes the financial aid to the student. If they have too many students who need financial aid (they go over-budget for their 2021 financial aid budget), they just give less aid to the ones they choose. Penn can then give out the generous aid to your URMs, athletes, and stellar applicants. For the the borderline applicant, Penn can give less financial aid. They don’t have an unlimited budget to give financial aid. No school does.
Don’t think it really plays a big role. They probably asked to see how many hours you take each course every week.
But why would they want to know this if they intend to reject the student?
It could be something required or if the student is borderline they want to see what the rigor is or means. Maybe there was something odd about your senior course list and they questioned it. Does your school usually send kids to Penn? If so, then I would think they’d be familiar with the courses and rigor of your school. If not, then perhaps that’s why there would be a question. Also, many schools ask for q1 grades especially this year because junior year second semester for so many are not a true representative for what student’s grades would have been if not for covid.
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but do you think this is a good sign??
No idea. I really don’t know anything about Penn admissions.
Did they say how many ED applications they have? Anything goes this admission cycle so who knows what those people are thinking and doing behind closed doors. I think at least at this moment in time you know that wasn’t a rejection at that point.
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Did you submit test scores, @yengx7788 ? When my D applied ED two cycles ago, Penn’s policy was to require midyear reports from deferred applicants. My D was accepted and just had to submit her final transcript. If you applied without test scores, then Penn may need another data point in the form of your first quarter grades.
I applied ED and did not submit test scores but my councelor had sent first quarter grades anyways… Maybe they want them!
I submitted all grades (standard test, subject test and AP) and my counselor got request to submit interim report anyway. I found out other schools sent the similar request to some students as well.
and what schools?
Standard test means SAT/ACT
I did not check all, So far, I found Columbia, Brown and maybe Cornell
Cornell asks for students to send Q1 grades off the bat as part of the admissions criteria for certain programs. In other words, it’s expected and not usually asked for later. Not all programs there ask for them either and it’s not required for the ones that do, but it is strongly encouraged. IMO if a school went pass/fail last semester these are the students that absolutely should be submitting these grades and/or would be most likely to wind up in the deferral pile until the college has a chance to see first semester grades, unless they have been consistent from Day 1 of freshman year.
We have grades not P/F all the time. I think GPA takes more weights this year due to the large increased applicants.