@Ebbie1 I am from India too, and I can confirm that there’s a large number of students applying to Penn from India considernig the number that apply from just my city (that I know of).
Yup - we are in India and my daughter knows a few other kids at her school who applied.
The Daily Pennsylvainian just announced that there was a record breaking 44,482 applicants for the class of 2022 !
lower acceptance rate is inevitable then…
Let’s be positive here. (or at least let’s try to be)
@RDJfan28 From your 'city alone!? (oh my!)
Yes. Lower acceptance rates are inevitable. If half of the class of 2022 was filled by ED applicants, then Penn has about 1300 spots left to fill. Assuming (optimistically) even half of their RD admits actually enroll, they can’t accept more than 2600-2700 of the 37,406 applicants they got during RD. Just doing the math, least 90% of the regular decision applicants will have to be rejected or waitlisted. This whole thing has become ridiculous. Even for ED more than 80% of applicants were rejected or deferred. I’m glad I got in during ED, but I really feel sorry for those equally great students in RD that will probably get squeezed out just due to the sheer quantity of great applicants.
@Ebbie1 there’s quite a number applying from just my school (around 25 kids apply abroad and about 10-12 of them have applied to UPenn). It’s daunting, I know. We’ll see how it all turns out at the end of March!
Does anybody know where I should send a brief update email (if it’s not too late already)?
@Fukuro there’s an upload materials section in the applicant portal.
@Fukuro Try to find your regional admissions counselor’s email (I don’t remember where exactly it would be) and send your updates as soon as possible. You can upload it to your portal as well, but I don’t think you have to. I didn’t, I just emailed my admissions counselor and she added the email to my file.
Has anyone in this thread been accepted to the Huntsman Program?
@yalie21 decisions haven’t been released yet…
@MaybeHarvard2022 i thought applicants who got accepted early would linger around these threads lol…
I was requested interview request.
*requested for interview…
anybody got the interview request??
Is this an alumni interview and when did you get the request!
@yalie21 the special programs are almost a sure way to get deferred from early because there are so little spots available for them and they dont want to accidentally fill too many of them at once with the earlies
Anyone have any idea when decisions come out?
3/28
I received a phone interview request on 2/27 and did the interview today (3/1).
It was an alumni interview with someone across the country. I believe I was matched with them because they studied the same major in Penn as the one I applied for.
BTW: I live in a very populated area so I do believe interviews may be based on majors and not availability of alumni near you.