I want to go to UPenn, but I cannot figure out which school has a higher chance of me being accepted.
I would be perfectly content at either school: at Wharton I would have a concentration in Legal Studies and Business Ethics, and at the CAS I would major in Philosophy Politics and Economics.
Which school is easier to be accepted?
The internet says Wharton has an acceptance rate of 13.9%. Is CAS at 9.9%, or is that the average of all the schools?
If you feel the exact same about both schools, then applying to CAS would give you a higher rate of acceptance. Penn’s acceptance rate is about 9.9%. They don’t release acceptance rates to individual schools, so any unofficial statistic you see on the internet is false. However, it is well accepted that Wharton is one of Penn’s most competitive and popular schools, so it is definitely harder to get into than into CAS.
But this all depends on your profile and your scores, as different profiles may be seen as a different fit for the different schools. But on a purely quantitative value, CAS would give you a higher chance.
If you are really serious about Penn. You need to do some basic research. Love the school, it will love you back.
It is rumored that SEAS and Wharton are more selective than CAS, but with no official numbers, there is no way of knowing for sure, besides the fact that the overall acceptance rate is around 9%. You should apply to the school that you want to go to the most, not the one with the highest acceptance rate.
@oboeplayingcorgi Please- I hope you have noted that at Wharton the Legal Studies and Business Ethics concentration is a second concentration ONLY meaning you have to first concentrate in something else and then add it on as a second concentration…
13.9% is either a very old figure ( from over 10+ years ago when Penn published the individual undergraduate school acceptance rates) or it is the acceptance rate of the grad school. Prob it is the former. Nowadays the acceptance rate of Wharton is rumored to be around 8% and the college around 9.5-10%. SEAS is most prob in between the two and Nursing is much higher-well over 10% (Due to the high self selection). So the different is not that significant, but based on just the acceptance rate CAS seems easier. That said, people tend to forget that acceptance rate is not synonymous to selectivity and that each person is an individual case. For example if you are a person with a liberal arts background but have also proven quantitative skills and wanna do sth different with your Wharton degree than investment banking, then u might stand out more if u apply to Wharton since u will be different from the many finance-focused applicants who just want to go on to Wall Street and make big bucks. So a clear cut answer of what is easier is not rly possible, especially nowadays that differences ll in the acceptance rates between the two schools has narrowed down significantly. I d say go with your gut feeling and apply to the school that appeals most to you based on your academic interests.