<p>Does anyone know what percentage of students are accepted to The Wharton School regular decision?</p>
<p>Last year for Regular decision, it was 14.8%</p>
<p>tctennis, are you certain, I don't mean to doubt you, but I have heard a lot of different rates for RD Wharton, some claiming it to be as low was 8-9%</p>
<p>yeah my bad....that percentage was overall for Penn RD, not just wharton. Wharton's was 13.6% in 2009....and every year it drops a little so its probably about 10-11%</p>
<p>if you want to look at the detailed stats for each year, look at this site...broken down very well</p>
<p><a href="http://ivysuccess.com/upenn_2011.html%5B/url%5D">http://ivysuccess.com/upenn_2011.html</a></p>
<p>Business Week says the 2005 admit rate to Wharton (0verall) was 16.1% (676 people) of 4201 applications, yielding 76.7% (520 enrolled). If you assume that half the class was ED with a 28% admit rate and 100% yield, this means that there were 260 ED acceptances out of 930 applications . So in the RD pool, you have 416 acceptances out of 3271 applications (12.7% admit rate ) and a yield of 62.5 %. A few people may get lost here and there due to rounding and this year will be slightly different (lower acceptance rate due to more applicants - possibly they are counting on lower yield due to common app so maybe they'll offset by taking a few more) but these figures should be ballpark. It hardly makes a difference if the exact yield is 13% or 11% , if they reject 8 out of 9 or only 7 out of 8 any way you slice it the vast majority get rejected RD. To use the word that has been used a 1000 times before, it's a crapshoot and your odds aren't much better than shooting dice.</p>
<p>In a way it's surprising that putting 1/2 the pool into ED where the odds are double doesn't lower the RD odds even more but due to the quirks of statistics it doesn't have that big an effect.</p>
<p>Note also how much the yield drops off in the RD pool. This is a big reason why Penn love ED - even at Wharton they lose 6 out of every 16 applicants to another (generally "better") school in the RD round (and for the most part the strongest 6 at that). His is why they did not take Harvard's sucker bet to drop ED.</p>