<p>So what was it?</p>
<p>Penn does not release individual statistics for any of its 4 schools. All we have to go by is the overall acceptance rate. In general, the order of selectivity is joint programs >> wharton > CAS > SEAS</p>
<p>They have something like 500 in an incoming class. Does anyone want to venture a guess as to what the yield is? I have absolutely no clue. There are about 5500 applicants. Somewhere on businessweek I remember seeing a 75% yield but am not sure about this number because UPenn’s overall yield is something around 60%. With a 75% yield there are 667 admits. 667/5500 = 12%. Just a guess…</p>
<p>Actually, screw that 667 number.</p>
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<p>The article states 544 students were admitted to Wharton this year.</p>
<p>So Wharton must have a higher yield number. Makes sense as it is essentially peerless.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, Wharton is usually around or a little lower than 10%. I also believe I heard yield at Wharton was on HYP level (as is Wharton admissions in general). I feel like I picked this up in an article from a couple years ago. 544 students is not a lot. Don’t they usually shoot for a class of about 500?</p>
<p>Wharton yield is significantly higher than HYP yield. I remember seeing something along the lines of 84-85% vs. 69-70%.</p>
<p>considering that wharton applicants are pretty sure of going to into business and wharton is the best for undergrad… I’m hardly surprised.</p>
<p>I just found under FAQs on the website that they generally receive 5500 applications and matriculate 500. Even accounting for fewer Wharton applications this year (we don’t know how much the number decreased), that’s still around 10%.
Oh, and 500/544 makes the yield about 90% (not counting for waitlistees).
Of course ED perhaps plays a very unfair role in this, but whatever. Every day I become increasingly awed that I actually got in!</p>
<p>“Every day I become increasingly awed that I actually got in!”</p>
<p>Haha scribbler I feel the exact same way</p>
<p>so exact numbers aren’t available, but it’s probably around 10% or roughly HYP levels? That’s not bad… yield rates too are really high then?</p>
<p>i am so humbled to have got into Wharton and notwithstanding the fact that i am an international and i got fantastic financial aid too…waiting to meet all those accepted to Wharton in roughly 4.5 months time…good luck…</p>
<p>Its acceptance rate is so low because a lot of dumb people who can’t handle real academic majors want to major in business, so they just pick the most prestigious business school. They also expect high salaries even though they fail to realize an undergrad business degree is pretty worthless, even from wharton, unless it is in accounting or MIS.</p>
<p>^While some of what you say is absolutely true (engineering undergrad followed by MBA grad is considered more respectable by many employers), your tone and some of the idiotic comments interspersed in your post essentially nullify it’s validity.</p>
<p>I heard through the grapevine that this year the acceptance rate was less than 9%…so congrats to all who got in. I, too, am in shock and cannot believe I got in. Congrats to those who did get in and I can’t wait to see you in September</p>
<p>actually, the admissions representatives at the presentation on Penn Preview on Friday said a little over 5k applicants. 544 were admitted. Don’t think it was below 10% this year.</p>
<p>For whatever reason I have a feeling they said 5500 applicants, can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>hhaha i was told it was 5500 at my wharton luncheon during penn previews</p>
<p>There were 544 acceptees, and around 5400 applicants. So, around 10%. This is possible because of their exceptionally high yield, which hovers in the mid-80% range.</p>