Admissions
Dean Furda's Eagles tirade featured on Stephen Colbert's late-night show
“Plot twist: turns out that man is Eric Furda, the University of Pennsylvania’s dean of admissions,” Colbert said to horrified laughter from the audience.
Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes or children of alumni or donors
The study found that 43% of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy, children of faculty and donors, or athletes.
Class of 2023 yield rate jumps to 70% — Penn’s highest in 10 years
This year, 70% of 3,345 admitted students accepted their offers, the highest yield rate since the 2009-2010 academic year.
Evidence of college admissions scam uncovered by FBI years before Jerome Allen scandal
Authorities discovered the college consultant at the center of the national scandal in 2016 while investigating Philip Esformes, the parent who bribed a former coach to help ensure his son's admission to Penn, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Penn's transfer acceptance rate drops to record-low 5.9%
The acceptance rate of 5.9% constitutes a marked decrease from recent years with an acceptance rate of 7.6% last year and 8.1% in 2017.
A look at the Penn admissions visitor center a month since its move to Claudia Cohen Hall
The admissions center moved to the basement of Claudia Cohen Hall in late May after nine months of construction. The new center offers a bigger space and its design reflects Penn Admissions' recent re-branding.
Penn graduate takes college admissions lawsuit against DC prep school to Supreme Court
2019 Engineering graduate Dayo Adetu sued her high school after failing to receive an unconditional college acceptance in 2014.
Wharton raises cost of MBA degree as peer institutions halt tuition increase
Wharton will increase its MBA tuition while Harvard University and the University of Chicago freeze theirs.
Student activists say Penn 'prioritizes profits' over community at teach-in for baby Quakers
The Penn activist groups distributed flyers from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. around locations near Irvine Auditorium, Houston Hall and on Locust Walk. Meanwhile, a teach-in occurred at noon at the Perelman Quadrangle steps.
Quaker Days is now longer and includes ED students — but housing is more limited
Scrapping the early decision student preview day, ConnectEd, this past February, Penn Admissions is changing the Quaker Days model – inviting ED students to join regular decision students on April 8, 10, and 17.
Penn parent found guilty in case involving bribery of Jerome Allen for college admission
Philip Esformes was convicted of 20 federal charges, including bribery, after being charged with 26 counts. With over $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims, Esformes’ trial marked the largest health care fraud case ever charged by the federal government.
Texas high school student accepted to all eight Ivy League schools
Jeramy Botwe, a high school senior from Texas, was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools. Botwe's father is originally from Ghana and came to the United States as a teenager.
A breakdown of admission rates across the Ivy League for the Class of 2023
Penn, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth all saw their lowest admission rates in history – with four of the schools dipping below 6 percent.
Meet some of the baby Quakers admitted to Class of 2023
The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke to some students who were admitted to the Class of 2023 on March 28. Here are their stories.
Penn admits a record-low 7.44 percent of applicants to the Class of 2023
Penn has admitted 3,345 students for the Class of 2023 after receiving 44,960 applications, the largest applicant pool to date.
As the process wraps up, prospective students reevaluate admissions at elite colleges
As the admissions process wraps up for high school seniors, and Penn's regular decision results set to be sent out March 28, prospective and admitted students of the Class of 2023 are coming to terms with their own experiences with wealth and privilege in the admissions process.
Ira Bowman, former assistant to Jerome Allen, implicated in Penn admissions fraud
Jerome Allen, a former Penn basketball star player and coach, admitted to receiving approximately $300,000 in bribes from Philip Esformes to recruit his son to play basketball for Penn.
'It's a system that is completely unfair': students question wealth's role in admissions
Students said the national admissions scandal and the Jerome Allen case have generated discussions on the role that money plays in college admissions. College junior Luke Yamulla referenced the bribery allegations as well as recent tuition hikes in a recent post on Penn’s meme page, Official Unofficial Squirrel Catching Club.
Penn parent sent more than $400,000 to consultant at center of national admissions scandal
Bank records were analyzed by the witness to show the money trail from Esformes' account to the Key WorldWide Foundation, which prosecutors allege was fraudulent and used to launder bribes from parents trying to gain college admission for their children, Law360 reported.