For the transfer folks here, what are you guys doing to get a leg up in the RD round?
@TommyD36 I am just going to try to continue to improve my grades in school (only 1 month more until my first semester ends, so I might as well give it everything I got for the next month). I won’t have any new extracurricular information/achievements (those will come too late unfortunately) likely, so I don’t honestly know. I’ll have to think about it.
Deferred CAS. the only thing I’m gonna focus on now is getting really good grades this semester and working on my writing for competitions (to get more awards for the update, I guess). Best of luck to everyone!
I meant deferred, not transferred.
Deferred SEAS
^ I’m surprised.
I was too, but at least I can apply to all my other schools now 
Does anyone know the percentages this year that were deferred and/or rejected? Typically Penn lists them, and it is usually over 50% rejected. But I can’t find the numbers anywhere.
@desie1 Not a clue. I heard that they typically accept somewhere around 25%, defer 20%, and reject 55%
@copengie4 that’s a huge number of kids applying ED. How many kids, total, in your HS class and are you near Philly?
@TheWaffleMan149 Thanks - those are the typical numbers. I wonder why Penn (and Princeton, too) aren’t releasing their deferral numbers this year. Maybe they’ll release them later?
@desie1 could we call and ask?
@GnocchiB My class in particular happens to be extremely competitive. Last year, my counselor only had around 15% of her students apply early somewhere, and this year, she had over 80% apply early somewhere. My class is over 500 people as well. I’m not near Philly.
@thewaffleman149 Well, I’m a mom. Highly doubtful they would give me the information (I don’t have a child who was deferred or rejected so not really my business) I guess you could email your admission rep. and ask. But not sure how that would be received. I assume it was over 50% rejected, like always. It doesn’t really matter - just curious. If I end up hearing anything about the rates through the Penn interview process, I will post it here.
Thanks! @desie1