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Admissions

10/19/16 1:53am
Harvard is releasing years of applicants' private information to federal court for an affirmative action lawsuit.
10/10/16 1:48am
Pennsylvania is a key swing state for the 2016 election season and throughout Penn’s campus numerous advocacy groups have been registering students to vote in the Keystone State.
10/03/16 1:42am
A college admissions counselor estimated, however, that 30 to 40 percent of colleges do use social media to judge its applicants.
10/03/16 1:36am
Penn First, the student organization for first generation, low income (FGLI) students on campus, implemented a range of projects after their inaugural summit in April this year.
10/02/16 10:33pm
Penn “encourages applicants from a growing number of homeschool students”. Although homeschool has been a growing trend for the last decade, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda estimated that Penn receives only about 20 applications per year from homeschooled students. He stressed that the figure was not exact.
09/27/16 2:20am
The change, which was enacted over the summer, restricted students from applying Early Action to private schools while simultaneously applying Early Decision to Penn.
09/26/16 12:58am
Penn's rankings fluctuate from year to year and across publications.
09/07/16 1:26am
The new policy aims to ensure that early applicants are as committed to Penn as possible.
08/31/16 12:46am
Penn reversed its position on Score Choice, which obliged students to include all of their recorded standardized test scores on their application.
07/18/16 10:45am
An incoming Penn freshman was accused of sexual assault in a legal complaint, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
07/06/16 10:49pm
Predicting yield is proving challenging as students’ application habits are changing. This past spring, nearby Pennsylvania State University was faced with an unexpectedly large incoming class. Nearly a third of admitted students accepted their offers by the decision deadline, up 30 percent from the year before.
06/23/16 10:49am
Abigail Fisher, a white woman who was denied admission to the school, brought the case against University of Texas at Austin in 2008.
05/31/16 9:34am
This year, between 68 and 69 percent of students admitted to Penn's Class of 2020 committed to the school.
05/13/16 1:18am
Plans that hopeful high school seniors write on their college applications rarely end up falling in line with what they actually do at Penn.
04/27/16 2:35am
In early April, around 200 accepted LGBTQ students and allies received emails from members of Penn's queer community, telling them about the wide variety of LGBTQ resources that Penn offers.
04/27/16 2:30am
The The Daily Pennsylvanian caught up with three incoming students to talk about their how they decided to come to Penn.
04/26/16 2:00am
The Graduate School of Education won a $138,000 grant earlier this month to study the law school admissions market.
04/13/16 2:15am
Some classes, especially this far into the semester, may prove challenging for prospective freshmen.
04/13/16 2:13am
For the admissions office, these three days are the result of months, even years, of planning, as well as a large amount of money.
04/04/16 1:13am
See how this year's rate of 9.4 percent compares to the other schools in the Ivy League.