<p>Why do yall assume that all 16% of the applicants with 590 or below are minority. that is so demoralizing.</p>
<p>they aren't all minorities</p>
<p>some are super-athletes</p>
<p>even more demoralizing and stupid is when ccrunner just assumes the legacies make up to the bottom of the SAT distribution when he has no evidence to back it up except by possibly stating their higher acceptance rate in proportion to the school. Most of the legacies hail from top private schools where SAT averages hoover in the low 1400s, and therfore almost the top half of these students are already around the median for these schools.</p>
<p>track runners from public schools are clueless</p>
<p>Guys, your forgetting international students. As an international student I got less than a 590 on the verbal(I also know a few other guys who got less than 590), but I got a 780 on the math ~_~. </p>
<p>Soooooo.... about the low math scores........ <em>points at teh track runners</em></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php:%5B/url%5D">http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php:</a></p>
<p>-note these are the 2005 figures.</p>
<p>Internationalism
A total of 2,717 international students applied for admission to Penns undergraduate schools for Fall 2005, and 453 (16%) received admissions offers. More than 17% of the first year class are international students. Of the international students accepted to the Class of 2009, 15.7% were from Africa and the Middle East, 38.8% from Asia, 1.8% from Australia and the Pacific, 13.1% from Canada and Mexico, 13.5% from Central/South America and the Caribbean, and 17.1% from Europe. Penn had 4,514 international students enrolled at all levels in Fall 2005.</p>
<p>From US News college rankings:
Percent of student body that is international</p>
<p>Total international students: 874 (9% of student body)
Total first-year international students: 250 (10% of first-year students)</p>