<p>Does anyone know the average SAT score for JUST the SAS is at Penn? I have it for Wharton, but not Penn itself.</p>
<p>Also, the admissions rate for each individually, excluding the other colleges. Thanks.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity where did you find it for Wharton?</p>
<p>Yup, how did you find them for Wharton?</p>
<p>2 places; the first is a book from 2005 about entitled something like, "The race of the bulls, from college to Wall Street", although I couldn't be certain. In it, the author details that Wharton's SAT average was 1400, and only 14 points higher than the college's.
Another, more recent, article in Business Week or some other such financial periodical noted that Wharton's SAT average was 1439, although it didn't have the dirty details on the individual sections.</p>
<p>The</a> University of Pennsylvania Undergrad Profile: Getting In</p>
<p>Wow, this also states that Wharton's acceptance rate is 16.1%., which prompts me to believe that SAS must be substantially lower, in order to offset nursing and engineering.</p>
<p>^ 16.1% is the overall acceptance rate for Penn's Class of 2011:</p>
<p>Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile</p>
<p>Penn doesn't officially release the acceptance rate for just Wharton, and there's no way that Business Week could obtain it.</p>
<p>In fact, based on numbers that have been informally released, it is Wharton's acceptance rate that is lower than those of the other schools. Wharton's overall acceptance rate tends to be around 10%. The College's acceptance rate is generally around the same as the overall acceptance rate, i.e., 16%. And Engineering and Nursing tend to have slighly higher acceptance rates--20-25%.</p>
<p>Yet if you look at Business Week's page it clearly says precisely how many students applied to Wharton ALONE (4,201), a number that you can't find from Penn. They also publish Wharton's yield. Do you think that they made that up? Also, that 16.1% is from 2005, so they had no idea about the numbers from 2008, nor could they mistake them. These numbers are probably real.</p>
<p>Look at it this way:
total undergrads at Wharton = 1900.</p>
<p>Business Week says 4,201 apply, with 16.1% admissions rate.
4201*.16 = 672.1 admitted to Wharton</p>
<p>Now factor in the yield to see how many actually matriculate:
672.1*.76 = 510.8</p>
<p>Now divide 1900 by four to see approximately how many Whartonites there are per class:
1900/4= 475</p>
<p>475 is within 35 students of those numbers, they look pretty good.</p>
<p>The numbers appear to make sense.</p>
<p>^ They may make sense for the class of 2009 (which entered in 2005) or the classes of 2007 and 2008, when Penn's overall acceptance rate was about 21%:</p>
<p>University</a> of Pennsylvania Admission Strategies 2007</p>
<p>Admissions</a> Statistics 2008</p>
<p>University</a> of Pennsylvania Admissions 2009</p>
<p>But they don't make sense anymore with an overall Penn acceptance rate in the 16% range. If you do a search in the Penn forum, you'll see that Wharton's overall acceptance rate has been running in the 10-11% range over the past 3 years.</p>