Admissions
A letter against legacy admissions leaves Penn's first-gen., low-income students divided
While Penn First, Penn’s largest FGLI student group, did not sign the letter, Seven|Eight, Penn’s FGLI group specific to Asian Americans, did sign it.
Penn receives a record-breaking 44,482 applicants for the Class of 2022
37,409 applications were submitted in the regular decision application process while the remaining 7,073 were part of the early decision batch.
How Penn's $75 application fee stacks up across the Ivy League
Taking application fee waivers into consideration, Penn made approximately $1,817,730 from application fees during this past 2017 admissions cycle.
For some Penn students, the internship search for summer 2019 is already underway
'I think it’s crazy how I haven’t gotten anything for this summer and I’m already recruiting for summer 2019. It just leads to a lot more stress,' sophomore Thomas Woldermariam said.
Penn's incoming freshmen class got a glimpse of Penn at ConnectED
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.
Penn's new SRFS Executive Director will focus on streamlining information for financial aid
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.
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.