<p>what is the official number? can someone link me up??</p>
<p>Penn doesn’t release admissions rates for each of it’s individual schools. Though it is known that the rate for Wharton is lower than the overall ED acceptance rate.</p>
<p>It’s historically been right about 9% but since the number of applicants to Penn as a whole increased something like 17% I’m assuming that the number of Wharton specific applicants probably increased disproportionally to any increase they might have in the number of accepted students, so this year it’s probably more like 7-8%. . .but that’s just speculation on my part</p>
<p>Actually the number is more like 12% overall. The gap between Wharton and the College in terms of selectivity is rapidly closing. In 2004, the difference in SAT averages between the two schools was only 14 points. I would be very reluctant to say that Wharton is more selective than the College by more than a nominal degree (i.e., a small difference in SAT average). Too often the College’s ranking is scapegoated by pointing to Wharton’s influence in the overall rankings, and this is simply not borne out by the facts.</p>
<p>I have no idea what the ED number is. I’ve extrapolated the acceptance rate from different pieces of data that the admissions office release.</p>
<p>Ok. . .I’ve never actually seen the 9% number listed by the school, but I’ve been told that was the correct acceptance rate by a decent number of people both on this site and others (of course, who knows if they were just passing along flawed info like I apparently was)</p>
<p>Hey here’s a thought: instead of positing acceptance rates based mainly on intuition, let’s try to find some actual data to use!</p>
<p>[A</a> New Hybrid at Wharton](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>The current dean of undergraduate admissions at that time, Lee Stetson, stated in 2006 that the Wharton acceptance rate was 8-9%.</p>
<p>[UPenn</a> Admissions 2010](<a href=“http://ivysuccess.com/upenn_2010.html]UPenn”>ivysuccess.com is for sale)</p>
<p>According to this site, (somebody else can try to find a more official source) 20,479 people applied to Penn in 2006. </p>
<p>[Total</a> apps break U. record | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“http://thedp.com/article/total-apps-break-u-record]Total”>Total apps break U. record | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>
<p>Penn received 26,800 applicants in 2010. This represents an increase of ~30% from 2006. Therefore, assuming that the increase in applications was fairly evenly distributed among the schools (perhaps unlikely, as some have noted), an increase in the Wharton acceptance rate from 8-9% to 12% would imply that the size of Wharton almost doubled in 4 years! (to help illustrate this point - 100(.08)=8, 130(.12)=15.6)</p>
<p>If we assume the size of the Wharton undergraduate population stayed constant, (probably unlikely, I was unable to find past records of Wharton class size, again, somebody can search for data if they feel inclined) the current Wharton acceptance rate would be somewhere between ~6.11-6.88%</p>
<p>Holy crap enigma, </p>
<p>Are we really going to have to compete with Math whizzes like you on the curve? :P</p>
<p>was that sarcastic?
cuz it’s pretty simple maths…</p>
<p>According to the link below the number of applicants for SEAS and Nursing increased by 32% and 31% respectively with overall increase of 17% this year. I assume they cited these two schools because they have the biggest increases. Still 6-7% sounds like a good estimate for Wharton this year.</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Current: Latest News: Applications to Penn reach all-time high](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html]Penn”>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html)</p>
<p>No, it was not sarcastic. I know it is simple math, I was just taking the opportunity to make a very bad joke about curves. My jokes suck, lesson learned.</p>
<p>@kafka: it’s my cutthroat tendency to give everyone else in my MGMT 100 group an F that you should be more worried about…</p>
<p>Enigma, that’s an interesting take on it. . .I would however like to point out that your numbers are all based off of proportional changes from 2006. In the end your number is based off of intution just like mine was and indeed was probably too specific for a guess. You answered 6.11% and I merely gave a generalized range of around 7-8%</p>
<p>My tentative answer was ~6.11-6.88%. (also a general range)</p>
<p>My answer was partially based off of intuition, but my aim was to minimize the need for it by finding as much actual admissions data as possible. As I stated several times, more data would be needed to determine a more accurate range.</p>
<p>I saw your initial range and my gut agreed with it (as opposed to 12%), so I decided to refine the process you had used by trying to add some data to it to give it more credibility.</p>
<p>6.11-6.88 is such a narrow range that it seemd too specific, but I do appreciate the fact that you looked up previous data rather than basing your number off of a form of educated guess. . .in the end though I think that this year will see some crazy things in addmissions which could easily put the actual amount outside of either of our guessed ranges; the recession has changed the game to such an extent that past logic doesn’t really seem to be holding constant at comparable schools (As i understand it, Dartmouth has gone as far as releasing a fairly significant number of likely letters, extending their application deadline, and bringing student loans back)</p>
<p>Dartmouth’s rescission of their loan policies will cost them cross-admits to other competitive schools, and probably significantly alter their yield.</p>