Admissions
How Penn matches up: a breakdown of early admissions statistics across the Ivy League
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.
Penn admitted 18.5 percent of early decision applicants — a record-breaking low
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.
Protesters, Trump, and mental health: how tour guides manage Penn's most sensitive topics
“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.”
This report has found that there are fewer new international students coming to U.S. colleges
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.
Why this Asian advocacy group is calling the Common Application discriminatory
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."
Penn received a record-breaking number of Early Decision applicants for the Class of 2022
The University received 6,731 applications, a 9.5 percent increase from last year's record-breaking number of 6,147 applications.
Brown offers free tuition to University of Puerto Rico students affected by Hurricane Maria
Brown has helped victims of natural disasters multiple times in the past, including after Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Penn extends Early Decision deadline to Nov. 10 for students affected by natural disasters
Other schools like Yale and Cornell have also extended early admissions deadlines for students affected by natural disasters.
Common App director says claims that the platform is a 'cartel' are 'frivolous'
"Our non-profit membership association has spent several million dollars defending itself against these frivolous claims by a for-profit, privately-held company."
How Penn and other universities assess and admit home-school students
A freshman who applied to the University of Rochester as a home-school student was recently expelled for falsifying her transcript.
Penn welcomes the Coalition App — an admissions platform designed to increase accessibility
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.
Penn keeps its No. 8 spot in latest U.S. News rankings
In the 2017 ranking, Penn tied with Duke University for the eighth spot, but Duke dropped to No. 9 this year.
Legacies make up a sixth of Penn undergraduates. Experts disagree whether this needs to change.
Sixteen percent of Penn undergraduates are legacies. That's more than the percentage of black students or first-generation students.
Admission rates across the Ivy League: a breakdown
This year’s admissions cycle produced the lowest acceptance rates in history at every single Ivy League university, except for Yale University.
Here's how Penn, like many other Universities, is using Big Data to recruit new students
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.
Applying for Penn financial aid may be harder this year after an IRS tool was shut down
The Internal Revenue Service Data Retrieval Tool, which allows Americans to upload tax-return information without having to manually enter it, has been disabled until October.
Read the essay this high school senior wrote to get accepted to all eight Ivy League schools
Cassandra Hsiao, a first-generation Malaysian immigrant, wrote about her struggles with the English language.
Meet the high school seniors experiencing Penn during Quaker Days
“I went over to the physics table, and I’m not even interested in physics,” Class of 2021 admit Neelu Paleti said. “But seeing their enthusiasm really made me want to do something in that field.”
After consideration, Penn Admissions opts not to delete admitted student Facebook groups
"The Class of 2021 Facebook group will remain active this year, barring any unforeseen issues,” Vice Dean and Director of Marketing and Communications Kathryn Bezella said in an emailed statement.