2014 admits much like last year’s
Despite increased selectivity, SAT scores, diversity statistics rose only slightly
· April 2, 2010, 5:09 am
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Surviving the largest pool of applicants Penn has ever seen, the accepted class of 2014 has raised the bar in terms of admissions standards.
This is the most selective year ever, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda, with both diversity and test scores increasing.
Penn accepted 3,830 students for the class of 2014 — 195 fewer than for the class of 2013. The University received a total of 26,938 applications this year, compared to 18,800 five years ago.
The average SAT score of the prospective freshmen is 2,178, a three-point increase from last year’s 2,175. This score is also 45 points higher than that of the 2010 graduating class.
Diversity has also increased slightly from last year, rising from 46 to 49 percent of the accepted class. The class of 2012, by contrast, was 40 percent non-white students.
Students come from all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Last year’s class included students from 49 states — all but Alaska.
The number of accepted international students dropped from 13 percent for the classes of 2012 and 2013 to 12 percent for the class of 2014.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s international rate also dropped by one percent to seven percent. Harvard University’s accepted class is comprised of nine percent international students — the same as last year.
Penn accepted 50 percent females and 50 percent males, as did Princeton University.
Other peer schools’ admitted classes are slightly less balanced. MIT accepted 53 percent males, while Harvard’s class will be 52.4-percent male.
Like Penn, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, Columbia and Cornell Universities, as well as MIT and Dartmouth College, all reported record low admissions rates for this cycle. Yale remained consistent with last year at 7.5 percent.
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pennalum08
April 2, 2010, 2:12 pm
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This is a good first step, but Penn must remember that the image of selectivity begets selectivity; continue to decrease the acceptance rate and boosting the SAT average. Until Penn's acceptance rate is ?10% and its SAT average is 2200 or so (i.e., like Harvard, Yale, Princeton), the school may not enjoy the selectivity mystique that pulls more cross-admits over to our side.
1990alum
April 2, 2010, 3:34 pm
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It is time for Penn to "put away childish things" if it wants to be considered a top-rank school. It is time to stop leaning so heavily on the early-admissions crutch as a "yield-boosting" device. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford,Yale and MIT do not play this game anymore. In fact, Harvard, Princeton (and UVa) have given up their early programs altogether.
Penn cannot be perceived as top rank so long as it is afraid to go head-to-head with the "big boys" for cross-admits.
pennalum08
April 2, 2010, 11:18 pm
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I think Penn is afraid that, if they were to do that, the next class would be about half as large unless the acceptance rate were twice as high. That's the only reason I can think of that Penn does not get rid of ED, considering how progressive Penn is in virtually every other regard.
I adore Penn, but it would be foolish to expect that people would chose it over HYPSM on a regular enough basis to make it worth going all-out RD while not lowering admissions expectations. Perhaps Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Dartmouth feel the same?
(And I'm not afraid to admit that, as a Penn alum and devotee, it's good ego stroking for me to see Penn on an ever-upward trend in admissions selectivity.)
1990alum
April 3, 2010, 12:05 am
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You are correct. When it comes to selectivity as measured by open market yield and by cross admit numbers, Penn is clearly in the Ivy second division - or in the third division if you recognize that Harvard is really in a division of its own at the top, with Yale and Princeton a few notches below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html
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