Admit rate holds steady at 12.3 percent
At 5 p.m. today, Penn will accept 9.8 percent of regular decision applicants, the Office of Admissions announced Wednesday afternoon.
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At 5 p.m. today, Penn will accept 9.8 percent of regular decision applicants, the Office of Admissions announced Wednesday afternoon.
A new Advanced Placement pilot program could close the gap between AP exams and the International Baccalaureate, another popular option for prospective Penn students.
Future generations of Penn students may be less prepared financially for college, according to a new study.
While 1999 Wharton graduate and alumni interviewer Andrew Ross has interviewed more than 50 prospective students over the past decade, he has faced a dilemma: hardly any of the students he has spoken with have been accepted to Penn.
Every fall and spring, admissions officers leave their home base in College Hall to meet high school students and their families all over the country and abroad.
College junior Kyle deSandes-Moyer built her spring break memories hanging off and tarring the roof of a half-built house in Punta Gorda, Fla., last year.
Penn’s Class of 2015 contributed to a nationwide growth of Advanced Placement test takers.
In Houston Hall, which bears a sign with the Benjamin Franklin quote “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest,” a dozen prominent figures in public policy and academia came together Friday to discuss the affordability and importance of higher education.
Regular decision applicant Caroline McCue — a senior at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, Md. — had put Penn out of her mind temporarily until the end of March.
When College freshman Liza Johnson was applying to Penn, she received advice from many of the usual sources — college preparation books, campus visits and advice from family members.
The college admissions process is already difficult and confusing for many, but for those whose parents never attended college, there is an added challenge of having to pave the road themselves.
This spring, newly admitted students may begin thinking about College of Arts and Sciences majors before they even set foot on campus.
This past December, Howard Ko — a senior at Collingwood School in West Vancouver, Canada — became one of more than 880 students whose admissions statuses to Penn were put on hold.
At its inception, the Common Application was little more than an entity that photocopied and mailed paper applications to 15 member institutions.
Penn isn’t alone among Ivy League schools that have seen a decrease in the total number of applications received this year.
Wharton sophomore Alex Evanczuk lived overseas on $2,000 for an entire year — less than what a semester of a freshman dining plan would have cost him.
According to U.S. News and World Report, Penn is climbing the ranks of the most popular schools in the country.
This spring, a selected number of applicants will get an honest preview of life at Penn from student leaders on campus.
Though the early consensus by administrators and college counselors is that the reinstatement of early action programs at Harvard and Princeton universities contributed to a decline in Penn’s applicant pool, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda believes there may be more to the numbers than meets the eye.
Admissions officers and college consultants are looking to determine whether the recent implementation of a net-price financial aid calculator at Penn will have a tangible impact on application numbers.