<p>I know Penn rarely releases individual school statistics, but has anyone ever heard what it has been in the past. If not, what's your best guess?</p>
<p>bumppppppppp</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that it was about 70%, higher than yale, princeton, and stanford's, but lower than Harvard's. </p>
<p>Obviously since Penn doesn't like to release individual school statistics, it's hard to confirm this number.</p>
<p>you can check this info at businessweek. i saw it before.</p>
<p>Just wondering, why wouldn’t they want to reveal individual school statistics? o_O</p>
<p>It’s this ridiculous “one school” policy that Penn has</p>
<p>Retention rate is usually interpreted as the % of undergraduates who complete their degrees (as opposed to dropping out or transferring), in which case Penn is somewhere around 96-98%.</p>
<p>I think you might be thinking of yield rate, which is the % of applicants offered admission who accept and enroll, in which case Penn is around 67%. Wharton is niche and essentially peerless so its yield is higher, while SEAS is weaker and has a lower yield, and the College is somewhere in between.</p>
<p>And the ridiculous policy is “One University,” get it right :P</p>
<p>haha yea I meant yield rate… sorry about that</p>