<p>What do you guys think about it? Maybe from CC, can we get some estimated stats?</p>
<p>I have no idea, but I have the same question.</p>
<p>I have no real sense about Penn specifically, but for other colleges that I've followed more closely the most common rule of thumb seems to be that 10-20% of the early applications get rejected, whatever get accepted, and the rest get deferred. It's the majority, usually, at highly selective schools, or at least a plurality: deferral is the most common disposition of early applications at colleges that accept less than half of their early pool. There are some exceptions: Stanford and Northwestern, I believe, try to limit the number of deferrals, and reject more people than they defer. (But at Northwestern acceptance is the most common disposition.)</p>
<p>It's around 1/3 admitted, 1/3 deferred, 1/3 rejected at Penn.</p>
<p>~10% of the deferred list will be accepted.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm really curious about this too. I've heard that Penn accepts almost half its class early, that most ED'ers are deferred, and that chances are slim for us. But all this info was from random sources on CC, so I don't really know what to believe.</p>
<p>Here are the stats for Penn's Class of 2012:</p>
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Early Decision Applicants--3,912
Total Admitted In December--1,147 (29.3%)
Total Deferred In December--1,250 (32.0%)
Deferred Applicants Admitted In April--130 (10.4%)
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Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile</p>
<p>So, about 39% of ED applicants were rejected in December. Also, 46.9% of those who actually enrolled in the Class of 2012 were admitted ED.</p>
<p>so when they look at us doing RD, do they look at the deferred applicants and the regular RD applicants in separate pools?</p>
<p>yeah, hilariousimlolin brings up a good question, anyone know the annswer?</p>