<p>JohnnyK, I need some condolence.</p>
<p>What should I do? Are there any statistics that can make me feel better?</p>
<p>Well you're from Philadelphia. If you apply ED you should be fine. Worked for me! (heck i was from the burbs!)</p>
<p>Can I ask you which school you went to? (you don't have to answer if you don't want to, I understand)</p>
<p>Or whether your school was public or private? I'm definitely applying ED... with at least 10 other people in my class :rolleyes: Do you happen to know how many students from your school were accepted or rejected from Penn after applying ED? Sorry if I'm coming off as being paranoid.. I guess I just am :(</p>
<p>I went to a catholic highschool in Philly. We had 9 accepted, 8 attending. Actually all of them committed to Penn, and then one dropped out like a month ago to go to a different school. A lot of them had mediocre stats, Yay for Philly.</p>
<p>chocoman, what do you mean by mediocre stats? Did they have mediocre EC's too? It would be pretty cool if the whole Philly thing worked for our school too <em>crosses fingers</em></p>
<p>By the way, did they all apply ED?</p>
<p>Penn accepts kids from Philly schools as a community support. A service if you will. One of my classics courses trekked to a local high school to help teach specific novels....it was good and it was a community service.</p>
<p>I'm under the impression that Penn accepts roughly the same number of applicants from my school as they would for an urban Philly school. Why is that? Would it be because the suburban schools might be very well qualified, so they would be accepted and though the Penn admittees from urban schools are qualified, they got an extra push because of location?</p>
<p>Well not all urban high school in philly gets that push, only those that are well qualified (to Penn's standards of course). But I think that as long as you're in Philly, you have a some advantage over others who are not. If you're in Philly, and you do good higher than penn's expectation for philly's people then you definitely can get in. I think you're worrying too much and since I don't think living in the suburb held any disadvantages in getting into penn.</p>
<p>So if you prepared for the PSAT so thoroughly how many kids at your school were declared National Merit Scholars or SemiFinalists? I am just curious. With such preparation you should have high numbers.</p>
<pre><code> 2006 Cut Off Score Pennsylvania 215
</code></pre>
<p># Semi Finalists 733</p>
<p># Commended 1675</p>
<p>2005 Cut Off Scores Pennsylvania 215</p>
<p>Semi Finalists 757<br>
Commended 1603</p>
<p>I wonder what the acceptance rate is like for Philly or Pa applicants. Ugh.. I just can't stop worrying about admissions, and I haven't even sent in all my forms.</p>
<p>I think I may have made my school sound better than it actually is. But, here's a link to my school's profile: <a href="http://www.abington.k12.pa.us/senior/about_ashs/profile.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.abington.k12.pa.us/senior/about_ashs/profile.html</a></p>
<p>How does my school compare with others? About average?</p>
<p>PA is bound by its charter to accept the maximum amount of students of its entire acceptance roster from Pennsylvania. Obviously since PA Gov schools favor SE PA students more, one can assume UPenn will do the same.</p>
<p>Where did you read this? I know that Penn takes kids as community support but are you saying Old Ben told them they had to take more kids from PA than any other state?</p>
<p>By the way, the test prep classes at our school (which are mandatory) are more or less nothing more than a joke. They are split into two classes (one for English and one for math), and each class meets once per week. As you can imagine, it does nothing but familiarize the students with the tests, but it doesn't necessarily prepare them for them using practice guides, etc. </p>
<p>Anyway, does anyone have any guesses as to how many Pa residents (or those near Philly) are admitted, rejected, and defered when it comes to ED admissions?</p>
<p>Can I assume that "mediocre" SATs is a 1400 (M & CR)? Just curious.</p>
<p>Bump by the way!</p>