<p>1) EVERYTHING! specifically interdisciplinary attitude and research capabilities. Philomathean society=Amazing. So social yet so intellectual. sis goes there. mad jealous.
2) I visit like once a month, and I stayed there for 9 weeks last summer and four weeks the summer before doing research.
3) There is nothing I want to change about Penn.
4) It is the best school in the world. BETTER THAN HARVARD, OXFORD etc. people are extremely academic yet social. Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world.
btw NSO is insane. I won’t give away details but let’s just say a dance party may or may not occur for every student in the class of 2016 in a museum of art basement…
Penn breeds start-ups and entrepreneurs
Also also also Penn Biology and Physics departments are sick.
5) Scream and shout. I will wear all of my Penn t-shirts for the next two weeks straight. I have enough trust me…(I’m wearing one for Penn Park right now)</p>
<p>Penn CAS Physics and philosophy intended major hopeful</p>
<p>ED to CAS!!!
Submitted (by now, of course…haha)
Did the essay, from the wonderful ID, and its probably needless to say how badly I want to go considering Penn’s my number one choice! :D</p>
<p>Acceptance rate is about 19% to 28% for ED I’ve been told…</p>
The Daily Pennsylvanian will publish an article with that number within the next few weeks (maybe even this week). Someone (such as yours truly) will start a thread about that article here on CC.</p>
<p>I doubt it. There will probably be an increase in the number of ED applicants this year so I would assume that it would take LONGER to sift through them. I’d say probably December 15 or 16 like most schools. I hope I’m wrong though :)</p>
<p>Here’s what Admissions Dean Furda said about the anticipated effect on Penn ED of Harvard and Princeton reinstating EA, in an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian a few weeks ago:</p>
<p>I think that the number of ED applicants may go down. I know a few individuals in my school who had their heart set on Penn ED for the last two years, but once they heard that Harvard opened up their EA, they were (and now are) applying EA there. Not sure if this will be a national trend, though.</p>
<p>ED applicants are ones that really want to go to Penn, I don’t see how that trend would change because of H/P EA…</p>
<p>Furda’s statement makes sense, the regular decision number will go down because people expected to be in the applicant pool will have been accepted during the fall to harvard or princeton, the number would naturally go down</p>
<p>there’s no other reason that I can think of that would make the number of ED apps go down. There are literally ten Penn ED applicants in my grade, it’s pretty ridiculous. </p>
<p>Do you think Penn will only pick one of us? Please say no just to make me feel better haha</p>
<p>@maani9422: It depends. In the example I gave above, the kid who loved Penn was persuaded by friends and family to keep his options open (he is I think 3rd or 4th in my graduating class, I’m around 6th), and since Penn’s ED is binding, not to be bound to any one school. He, apparently, has always loved Harvard as well, and took a chance on Harvard. I have always loved Penn and thus sent my ED app to them (I’m happy to be bound, haha). So, I guess it becomes more case-by-case? It ultimately depends on if the situation I described will be a national trend or not; that is, will high school seniors, as a nation, take chance on H/P EA and not bind themselves to any ED program (including Penn’s)?</p>
<p>And regarding your situation, lets hope at least two are picked, including you! :)</p>