<p>I've seen posts about this on various CC threads, but out of curiosity do any of you have an estimate as to what the deferral/rejection rates are for Wharton ED? I've heard that Wharton defers many applicants, and does not reject too many. Is this true?</p>
<p>haha i hope not, because i got rejected by wharton.</p>
<p>Actually after doing a bit more research I’m seeing that a lot of people seem to think that Wharton only defers a small portion of people and rejects more. </p>
<p>Who’s right?</p>
<p>this year’s results, including my own admission decision, seem to suggest that there have been a lot of deferrals. Maybe I have a skewed perspective since I got deferred myself</p>
<p>Penn accepted 1190 out of nearly 4600 applicants ED 2015. That is nearly 26% (down from 30% historical).</p>
<p>Data for deferrals and rejections is not available.</p>
<p>^ Where did you find that information? (Not doubting its truthfulness! Just curious 
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<p>And I don’t know the actual deferral/rejection rates, but CC’s so far look like this:</p>
<p>Accepted: 19</p>
<p>Deferred: 6</p>
<p>Rejected: 7</p>
<p>Applied ED but have not posted results: 9</p>
<p>CCers’ results make the defer/reject rates look pretty darn even. Hope you find this helpful; best of luck!</p>
<p>I’d say the population of CC is highly skewed…Only the very very top people would post their stats.</p>
<p>On the Penn website under Incoming class profile, it showed that last year the number of deferrals is just a little lower than the number of acceptance. Even though that goes for the whole university, but I would say that Wharton probably follows that rule as well.</p>
<p>I just reallllly hope that Penn, esp Wharton, hasn’t changed its policies… :/</p>
<p>^ Wouldn’t that mean that there were many fewer deferrals than rejections, though…? Maybe I’m missing something!</p>
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<p>[Early</a> decision admit rate falls to 26 percent | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“http://www.thedp.com/article/early-decision-admit-rate-falls-26-percent]Early”>http://www.thedp.com/article/early-decision-admit-rate-falls-26-percent)</p>
<p>Also, last year about 31% of ED applicants were deferred, and about 10% of those deferred applicants were accepted during the RD round (similar to the overall RD acceptance rate):</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>
<p>I heard Legacy applicants not accepted were Deferred - if this is true, would the chances for deferred non-legacy be better than deferred legacy?</p>
<p>I was deferred from Wharton and I’m pretty bummed. I was browsing the CC ED thread for Penn and it seems like majority of the thread posters were accepted or rejected. But the letter that they sent said a little under of 30% of ED applicants were deferred…</p>
<p>I heard that legacy applicants who were not accepted were deferred - if this is true, would non-legacy deferrals have a better than 10% of admission?</p>
<p>^ There really aren’t enough legacies to affect the RD pool much either way. There are only 325 legacies enrolled in the Class of 2014 (see the very bottom of the page):</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>
<p>and the RD acceptance rate for legacies is about the same as it is for nonlegacies (see table at the bottom of the page, keeping in mind that the percentages are a bit dated and cover 5 years):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/overview.html[/url]”>http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/overview.html</a></p>
<p>Also, I’m not so sure it’s true that all legacy ED applicants who don’t get accepted get deferred. I’ve never seen nor heard that officially stated anywhere.</p>
<p>^^i would assume so. assuming the typical non-legacy applicant is stronger than the typical legacy applicant, and knowing that legacy does not give a boost during RD, then it is safe to assume that non-legacies deferrals have >10% chance (legacies would probably have a little under 10% chance, and non-legacies would have a little over 10% chance).</p>
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<p>Nope–again, see the RD legacy acceptance rates in the second link I posted above. Same as nonlegacy acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Also, don’t be so sure that the typical nonlegacy applicant is stronger than the typical legacy applicant. Legacy status bestows a bit of an acceptance rate boost in ED all else being equal, but has virtually no effect in RD. And Penn makes quite clear to alums that legacy children who don’t have stats, etc. similar to other strong applicants will NOT get any boost. Remember that over 60% of legacy ED applicants are NOT accepted, and that number may be even higher this year.</p>
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<p>“and the RD acceptance rate for legacies is about the same as it is for nonlegacies (see table at the bottom of the page,” </p>
<p>How do you know that the non-legacy RD = Deferred?</p>
<p>^ I don’t. I just know that for the Class of 2014, the overall deferred-ED-applicant acceptance rate (119/1,186) wass roughly equal to the RD-applicant acceptance rate (2,536/23,088), and that only 325 legacies are enrolled in the Class of 2014:</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>
<p>I also know that for the past 5 years or so, 25-34% of legacy applicants have been accepted, and that the percentages of legacy applicants accepted regular decision have been fairly equivalent to the percentages of all applicants accepted regular decision:</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Alumni: Alumni Council on Admissions](<a href=“http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/overview.html]Penn”>http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/overview.html)</p>
<p>so that the numbers of deferred legacy ED applicants haven’t been large enough to have much of an effect on the RD acceptance rates for non-legacy RD applicants.</p>
<p>anyone have 2013 class profile stat? esp on the number of deferrals and the number of acceptance after deferral.</p>
<p>^ I don’t have access to the Class of 2013 stats anymore, but as I recall the percentages of deferred/accepted were similar to the Class of 2014, i.e., about a third of ED applicants were deferred, and the percentage of those accepted during RD was similar to the percentage of RD applicants accepted. For what it’s worth, here are the stats for the Class of 2011, showing basically the same thing (although for that class the acceptance rate for deferred ED applicants was slightly higher than for RD applicants, but probably not to a statistically significant degree given the much smaller number of deferred applicants compared to RD applicants):</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20080213223110/http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>Penn Admissions: Incoming Class Profile)</p>