My daughter, year 2024, received interviews with UPenn, Princeton, Brown, MIT. She did not receive interviews from Columbia (her dream school), Harvard, Yale. She was accepted to Columbia (deferred from ED), Princeton, UPenn (after waitlist), and was on Brown waitlist, but declined her spot on the Brown waitlist. She is at Columbia. She had 1600 SAT, 4.0, and lots of research experience and published as well. UPenn was her second choice, and Princeton her third. She based her college choice among her favorite colleges on research opportunities. All her interviews were great, except the MIT interview.
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I have a question. My son included SAT and AP scores on his common app application when he submitted it. However, only in his UPenn’s application it says no test scores to share. Is this normal? Or should he contact the admission office? My son thinks it just shows that way on paper but he thinks the admission office received his scores. Hmm…Momma is worried.
Anyone apply to nursing?
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Hi everyone! Here’s my stats 
ACT: 36 composite
SAT: didn’t take
SAT Subject Tests: didn’t take (Not offered in my area)
GPA W: 4.28
GPA UW: 4.0
APs: APUSH (3- rip) [my school only offers 1 AP before your senior year- to make up for that, I took all the honors classes possible)
State: Nebraska (OOS)
School: Public
Hooks: Small/rural town; NE is geographically underrepresented at Penn
ECs: Class President, President of NHS, Vice-President of FBLA and Tri-M, Volleyball Captain, Show Choir Captain, active member of bands and choirs, etc.
Best of luck to everyone on April 6!!
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My daughter still hasn’t heard about an interview for Penn… I guess she may not end up getting one.
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With applications way up this year, I think it will be hard for a lot of people to get interviews this year. My daughter still has not heard back about the alumni interview yet. She did apply last minute though, so I wonder if this is a factor.
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yeah, I did and got deferred. I spoke with the director and she said only 47 people were accepted in the early round though
Thanks for the information. I have read that they accept around 100 students for each class. So I guess there is more than 50% of the spots left. So that is good for everyone in the regular decision round.
The nursing program is that small? I didn’t apply, but it’s amazing to me that a full-fledged college of the university could have so few students.
I remember when my daughters and I visited UPenn in 2018 for a college visit and while they are not into nursing I remember the info session talking about nursing and how competitive it is there and how it is one of the top nursing programs, but the one number that really stuck out to me was that they only have 100 spots. I was like holy cow! Nursing is such a need right now too, it’s a shame a program as amazing as Penn can’t expand and have a larger program.
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Most BSN programs are that small.
Continuing the discussion from UPenn RD 2025:
My s did. We just got a request for him to have phone call with Marianne Smith in the Nursing school. Anyone have this call?
My daughter had her video talk with Marianne Smith about 2 weeks ago. It was very informative. It was very low-key. She was selling the program. It lasted about 30 minutes. My daughter says she was a very nice lady.
Penn definitely does not need to sell the program. It is definitely number one on his list!
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Yes, she is very lovely!
There are roughly 100 spots per class, so in total, the undergrad program has 400-600 students at most I believe. It’s very competitive since there are over 1000 people competing for 100 spots, so it’s annoying when people assume it’s “easier to get into” just bc it’s nursing haha
Plus people think Wharton is sooo hard to get into based on content, which is wrong! it’s only harder to get into bc a crazy amount of people apply for not so many spots (but definitely more than nursing). There’s this weird stigma with the nursing school being “an easy backdoor in” which sucks bc people like me who actually want to do nursing are competing with applicants who apply thinking they have a better shot just so they can transfer…
Really? Who thinks that? Penn nursing is an amazing program and anyone who thinks it’s a back door program is not too swift. There’s a reason they only have 100 spots! And anyone willing to go into nursing right now has to be an amazing human being in all ways! Thank you!
Did anyone here from the Chicago area get an interview?