<p>I just went to Penn's campus to make sure I wanted to apply ED to the school. While attending an information session there, one of the admission counselors said that about a third of all applicants who apply ED get in, and that this fact is true for every single undergraduate school at Penn. This shocked me because I thought it was a lot harder to get into Wharton compared to the other 3 schools. Does this information seem correct to you guys?</p>
<p>that is definitely wrong. About 1/3 of ALL applicants to penn get in ED, which includes all the undergrad schools, hence the overall ED acceptance rate of ~30%. The Wharton stats are a lot lower...the overall acceptance rate for wharton is 9%. The wharton RD acceptance rate is about 5-6% and wharton ED is about 13-14%.</p>
<p>There is a lot of funny business going on because Wharton has pulled ahead (behind?) the rest of Penn in acceptance rate (about 1/2 of ROP) but the school doesn't like to emphasize this under the "One University" mantra (also because it makes ROP seem not so good by comparison). So very little separate data is released and there is a lot of mumbling (and perhaps at the lower levels even outright lying) when difficult questions are asked like you heard at the (dis)information session.</p>
<p>i think what they meant is each school from Penn accepts one third of their total acceptances through ED....not that the accept 1/3 of the people who apply</p>
<p>@TheBarron12: That's (fairly) wrong. 1/2 of the class comes from ED, the other half from RD. If you estimated the yield at 50% I guess that could work, but the yield's been higher than that.</p>
<p>Percy's (unfortunately) right on this matter - stats for individual schools are hard to come by, since they're rarely published and only muttered as a range by some junior adcom member at an info session. Also consider the fact that most of the recruited athletes and development admits go into wharton - the stats just don't represent the actual situation. Good luck finding actual numbers - but do be warned that you shouldn't base your decision off of acceptance rates.</p>