Every year, the day long programming gives students a glimpse of the life they will experience on Penn’s campus in a few short months.

Sessa's appointment comes at a time where SRFS has come into the spotlight regarding some of the changing policies, and especially the degree of varying information students say the receive about the changes.

While Penn wasn’t the only Ivy League university that became more competitive this year, it experienced the largest relative decline in percentage of students accepted.  

Of the early decision applicants accepted this year, 25 percent had a parent or grandparent who had attended Penn and 11 percent are first-generation college students.

“We try to be very up front about these things. Before we get even asked a question on tours, we outwardly mention mental health resources that are available on campus.”

Experts have suggested that this dip in numbers is associated with the rise of President Donald Trump, who has implemented a range of controversial immigration reform policies. 

In a letter, the Asian American Coalition for Education called on the Common App to "stop the practice of subdividing Asian American applicants into 10 subcategories."

The University received 6,731 applications, a 9.5 percent increase from last year's record-breaking number of 6,147 applications.

Brown has helped victims of natural disasters multiple times in the past, including after Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. 

Other schools like Yale and Cornell have also extended early admissions deadlines for students affected by natural disasters.

"Our non-profit membership association has spent several million dollars defending itself against these frivolous claims by a for-profit, privately-held company."

A freshman who applied to the University of Rochester as a home-school student was recently expelled for falsifying her transcript. 

Some higher education experts said the new platform may just add to the list of things prospective students have to do, instead of easing the admissions process.  

In the 2017 ranking, Penn tied with Duke University for the eighth spot, but Duke dropped to No. 9 this year.

Sixteen percent of Penn undergraduates are legacies. That's more than the percentage of black students or first-generation students. 

This year’s admissions cycle produced the lowest acceptance rates in history at every single Ivy League university, except for Yale University. 

Director of college preparation group One-Stop College Counseling Laurie Kopp Weingarten described Big Data as “the wave of the future” for college admissions. “Many times now instead of just meeting a Director of Admissions, I meet the Vice President of Enrollment Management,” she said.