“I have recently been in touch with Admissions about this year’s Writers House-affiliated Regular Decision candidates. We at the Writers House are enthusiastic of your candidacy and we made sure that Admissions knows this and will include our advocacy for you in your file. This will be one (of many) factors they consider as they discuss your application. We hope it helps! It’s out of our hands now, but we’ve done our best to support you.”
@tel123 That sounds very similar to the letter that the early decision students received who were “recruited.” So you can consider yourself recruited. I would guess that letter would help significantly. (although maybe not be quite as much as it was for the kids who committed through ED - don’t really know)
I’m actually really worried because I’m only in the top 20% which might just kill my chances. I mean, I’ve taken the hardest classes that you could possibly take with 16 AP and 12 Honors classes. And the reason my rank is so bad is cause the rest of my class has taken the amount of hard classes that I have and gotten better grades than me. Do you think the rigor of my classes might set me apart from some of the applicants or is it the typical amount that people applying to Wharton take?
@marie122 Typically Penn wants students who are at the top of their class with the rigorous classes, so 20% is on the low side. But they take all factors into consideration, so you never know. But there’s no point worrying about it - there’s nothing you can do at this point. If you get accepted, yay! If not, you’ll attend another great school.
Yea I got into UT for business which is where I’m going to go if I don’t get into penn. although penn is not my dream school ( I don’t have a dream school, I don’t get why people would dream about school) I would absolutely love to go there. I mean it’s a great school especially for Wharton and the campus is nice too. What about you @desie1 ?
@marie122 I’m a mom who went to Penn years ago! Loved it there! UT is a great school so if it doesn’t work out, you’ll get a strong business education. Good luck!
