<p>In the FAQs for the deffered people, it says that only 10% of the people defferred were accepted in the spring. That's stupid. We are the ones that want to go to your college more than anyone, so why such a low percentage? Anyone have any view on this?</p>
<p>i know what you mean i was also deferred, but Penn defers 30% of the early decision pool. I guess that’s why they only accept 10%</p>
<p>Yea but what is bad is in the defer pool everyone is smart, which is horrible, because 10% is way too less. Majority of the people will have great scores and ECs so it’s so subjective. In ED pool atleast there were a portion of people who were not fit at all, thats why now with deferred I’m not getting my hopes up</p>
<p>I honestly was surprised I was even deferred. I have a C on my transcript that I have yet to change and a 27 ACT score with 600 Math LVL 2 and 710 Spanish. I am soo surprised I didn’t get rejected.</p>
<p>^^how many kids at Penn are from Oregon? may want to retake ACT before RD decisions come out; you still have a shot with geographic bump</p>
<p>do you think you would have time to take the january SAT’s and send them in before they decide? i had an 1810 and thats probably why i got deferred.</p>
<p>Not too many apply. None from my school ( people thought U Penn was a public school… idiots). I was gonna take it today, but there was like an ice snow storm here and the ACTs were postponed so I’m taking them next weekend. Hopefully I can get a 29+. How much would this help me?</p>
<p>Hahahahahaha yesssss!!! I love this name. (This is hopeful2b_yank3e, btw)</p>
<p>VASSAP!</p>
<p>well obviously if you get a higher score it could only help you out</p>
<p>Yeah that’s true, maybe i’d get in… wouldn’t that just be the best?</p>
<p>There are different reasons for deferring. The school would genuinely like to accept some of the deferred and others are deferred because of factors including legacy, being from schools the U wants to attract more applicants from, powerful alumni wrote letters for them, etc…</p>
<p>LOL Bruno…</p>
<p>The screaming dick was the best part of that movie.</p>
<p>i was deferred as well and right now, i am wondering the same thing. it’s also very low probably because plenty of kids who want HYPSM apply to penn as a back up, and they end up more qualified than those deferred. </p>
<p>ugh. this is disheartening</p>
<p>haha yeah, i’m bruno and yankee. fun.</p>
<p>anyway, i dunno why i would be deffered. maybe because i’m a hispanic student?</p>
<p>where can i find the state demographics of u penn?</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>
<p>Incoming Class profile. That give you my year at least. One of those thirteen is a good friend of mine :)</p>
<p>See? Only 13 kids. That’s nothing!</p>
<p>Your friend isn’t from Eugene is he/she? haha</p>
<p>hopeful2b_yank3e - are you an athlete? Outstanding extracurricular activities? You must have something.</p>
<p>i’m not an athlete, i was actually thinking about contacting the coach but i think it’s too late, but i have pretty good ecs. check out an old post:<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/789120-ive-been-told-im-good-minus-scores.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/789120-ive-been-told-im-good-minus-scores.html</a></p>
<p>just google it. . .I only know that NE, OK, and KS all send under 10 kids a year. Back to the original question, when talking to a penn addmissions officer she said that you get about an instant 12-15% edge when applying ED; so, when you switch to RD you lose this edge and you’re also competing with kids who will ultimately go to HYP but are using Penn as a back up. In short, you lose a major selling point and the competition becomes tougher. . .but that’s just my guess</p>