<p>Got put on extended purgatory as well. Should we send extra materials?</p>
<p>I personally feel like extra materials wouldn’t be necessary - the reason we’re on the extended wait list is because we’ve proven ourselves, twice perhaps? I could also be completely wrong.</p>
<p>Yeah canada747, that’s what I thought as well.</p>
<p>Allright, I was so disappointed that no US school accepted me except Georgetown that I only accepted the place on the UPenn waitlist just in case a lot of people decided not to enroll. And was so appalled by the proccess of applying to college that I did not write any new letter of interest. I only checked that I would like to remain on the waitlist. And I still got the active waitlist letter. Isn’t this weird? So obviously, the restated interest in your letters doesn’t play a huge role.</p>
<p>Honestly, I thought the other three were trolling from the very beginning. UPenn doesn’t send out acceptances that early, and with the fact that they were over enrolled already, it just didnt make sense. </p>
<p>So far there havent been any acceptance posts, which there were several of last year. And fr the looks of it, they didn’t even bother with an extended wait list. My guess is that last night’s emails either released people or put them on this extended wait list. </p>
<p>Lot’s of analyzing from me, LOL, but that’s the way I see it. Congrats to everyone who made it to the next round of purgatory, anyway!</p>
<p>I normally don’t want to doubt people, but treehugger is right. It is weird 
They won’t recklessly admit people when they’ve over-enrolled. (They did use an extended waitlist last year, though - but some are admitted during this time too. This year is harsher in that you either get released or bound for another chapter of purgatory) Btw, treehugger, did you get on the extended waitlist? </p>
<p>(Congrats to those still waiting, btw! :D)</p>
<p>All valid points. Just to clarify: are all the people commenting here on the extended wait list? </p>
<p>Ozonik, are you a legacy perhaps? Do you have ties to Penn? It could explain their continued “interest” in you.</p>
<p>I personally feel that Penn wouldn’t craft the extended wait list if they felt that they wouldn’t take any more people at all. If the summer melt wasn’t a real thing then they would just announce that they will not be using their wait list at all this year (like what Rice did this year and Hopkins did last year). I think for Penn because they do have a larger freshmen class it is possible that some of those who accepted (even if they are over enrolled) will be accepted off other wait lists (I know Yale is planning on using their wait list this year), take a gap year, or withdraw due to financial reasons. Last year on the thread there were 3 who were admitted off the extended wait list as well as a few who heard back on the last day of May. Its also possible that no one will be admitted off the wait list this year as well though. This is an exceptionally tough year and I feel that if it was any other year those of us on this extended wait list MIGHT have been admitted already</p>
<p>“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class,” said Eric Furda, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school which last year offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200." </p>
<p>Is this quote referring to what we’re currently on our the overall waitlist when it says active wait list…?</p>
<p>I think we’re counted - because I don’t think they’ve actually taken anyone off of the real wait list. I could be wrong; those three could be real. I do think at least one person got off of the wait list. I think if they take any more, we’re the ones who will be taken. I like to think that we were selected from the wait list, to be considered especially good for choosing. Optimistic yes, but optimism is the only thing that really counts at the moment.</p>
<p>leopoldsg94, I do think that the 87 number included some students from the extended wait list, as well as the regular wait list. In our case, I expect the majority of wait listed admits to come from the extended list, simply because of the very low reports of admission from the first wait list.</p>
<p>If they chose the number of people on last year’s waitlist the same way they did this year, then we might guess that 10 of us will get off the waitlist…
@canada747 I have no legacies and no ties. I’m not even a US citizen. I’m a well-rounded international student without any major award whose mother tongue is not English.</p>
<p>@ozonik how did you arrive at the possible number 10 for this year?</p>
<p>@ozonik 10 is the number that they take last year, when they did not over-enroll. This year is more arbitrary though it is certainly possible. 22 people must rescind their acceptances first, though.</p>
<p>Personally, I think Penn didn’t even read our LOCIs. They didn’t even respond to our emails. Even if they did, the letters may hold so little weight as they knew the profile of those who rejected their offers - and they may look for waitlistees who fit this profile. Or they’re just looking for the most well-rounded/ivy-worthy people. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>hey guys, I am also on active waitlist. </p>
<p>I was looking on stats of last year’s class of 2016.</p>
<p>Total of 2465 students enrolled last year including 87 waitlisted applicants. So it means 2378 applicants accepted their seat. Unfortunately I could not find the exact number of applicants who accepted their place before summer melting. </p>
<p>The thing that concerns me is that from what I see now last year were 2465 places in upenn and now they claim that they have 2420 seats available. Anyway if they still decide to take 2465 students this year they will be roughly 30-35 places available which seriously doubt. </p>
<p>Good Luck everyone, I mean they is not much that we can do with it.</p>
<p>i don’t understand why they would take 40 less people this year…don’t they have the exact same number of dorms and available rooms for housing?</p>
<p>@SirStPierre, I really doubt that they wouldn’t read our LOCIs. Wait lists are dependent on LOCIs. They might not have read them, but they certainly marked down who sent them.</p>
<p>Beyond that, I have faith in adcoms. I really do think they do their best at shaping the best graduating class they can. That’s why they care about essays and extracurriculars. Otherwise, all the Ivies would be filled with students with SATs of >2300.</p>
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<p>In practice test scores of accepted students do suggest that “very” high scores are critically important. But even if the Ivys (and the other 8 -12 very selective colleges with similar profiles) choose to focus on students with 2300+ scores, there aren’t enough such students. </p>
<p>See:</p>
<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>Though I didn’t receive a direct reply I received an email thanking me for my LOCI and other updates I sent.</p>
<p>so i read somewhere that last year 87 people (total) were admitted off the wait list last year, and that originally Dean Furda planned on only taking 45 people off. so maybe we’ll get lucky and a lot of people will decide to defer admission or enroll somewhere else! optimism!</p>
<p>@lucya01995: Awesome! UPenn is definitely my number one choice, and hearing things like that makes me hopeful.</p>
<p>@leopoldsg94: I didn’t get any email at all :/</p>
<p>@fogcity: I guess you’re right. I arbitrarily picked a high SAT score.</p>
<p>I wish I could know how many wait listed applicants were taken already. It doesn’t seem like a lot. My assumption (that not many were taken off of the wait list in the first round) makes me think that at least a few students in the Class of 2017 will come off of this extended wait list.</p>