Wharton admissions stats

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<p>Approximately how many students are accepted into Wharton each year and what is the acceptance rate? How does ED for Wharton compare with college/nursing?</p>

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<p>Penn doesn't publish stats for each school. they like to showcase themselves to be one big happy family. But the number of freshman places at wharton undergrad is ~ 500.</p>

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<p>wasn't accept rate last year for wharton 12 ish percent give or take?</p>

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<p>i heard wharton ed was 9%, wharton rd was 5%</p>

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<p>ok i checked overall wharton is 650/5500 each year, which is approximately 12% total</p>

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<p>Wharton accepted only 471 this year (plus maybe a few more--less than 10, I'd guess--off the waiting list):</p>

<p><a href="http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/04/02/News/Admission.Rate.Drops.To.Record.Low.15.9-2816943.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/04/02/News/Admission.Rate.Drops.To.Record.Low.15.9-2816943.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The overall acceptance rate was in the 9-10% range, the ED rate was higher than that, and the RD rate was lower than that.</p>

<p>Significantly, Lee Stetson (remember him?) reported to the trustees over the summer that for the first time, the ED pool of admitted and enrolled students (for all 4 schools) was "stronger" than the RD pool of admitted and enrolled students (see pages 5-6):</p>

<p><a href="http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upa/upa1_1/2000to09/20070615tr.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upa/upa1_1/2000to09/20070615tr.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>