Admissions
Penn's early decision acceptance rate drops to 18 percent for Class of 2023
International students were admitted from 48 different countries, a drop from last year's 54 countries. The number of states with admitted students dropped from 45 last year to 42 this year.
Penn’s early decision applicant pool plateaued this year. Here’s why Furda isn’t surprised.
Across the Ivy League, schools have recently experienced a plateau in terms of Early Decision applicant numbers.
Penn’s Early Decision applicant pool plateaus for the Class of 2023
Penn's early decision applicant pool has been steadily growing every year since 2011.
Instead of heading straight to law school, more students are taking time off after college
Of the current first-year students at Penn Law, 75 percent have spent one or more years out of college before enrolling in law school.
Penn is now one of two Ivies with no plans to pay their student tour guides
There are approximately 150 guides currently in the Kite and Key Society, each of whom are expected to lead one campus tour a week.
Penn's early decision deadline was Thursday – except for students affected by recent hurricanes
Penn announced it would give students living in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida panhandle an extension until Nov. 12 to send in their ED applications, as well as waive the $75 application fee.
Dean Furda on Jerome Allen bribery scandal: 'safeguards' are needed to prevent future incidents
Penn Athletics is currently in the "final stages" of an internal investigation conducted by a hired outside legal counsel.
The LSAT is going digital, following the footsteps of other graduate school entry exams
The LSAT transition to digital testing will begin in July 2019. The only change is that students will now be using a Samsung tablet and stylus, rather than traditional pen and paper, to take the exam.
Penn Early Exploration Program gives underrepresented high school seniors a taste of college life
Now in its fifth year, PEEP welcomed 113 high school seniors from 32 states to campus for three days.
Penn ranks No. 10 in top college ranking by Wall Street Journal
The University dropped two ranks from last year, now placing behind Princeton University.
Penn Admissions Dean Eric Furda says U. will not follow Stanford in withholding admissions rate
Furda said the lack of available data may add to the stress surrounding the already existing mystique surrounding college admissions.
As visa rules change, international students at Trump's alma mater are worried but not deterred
Penn saw a 6 percent increase in the number of international applicants during the 2017-18 admissions cycle.
Penn defends affirmative action policies as Harvard lawsuit heats up
The Justice Department supported the students Thursday, arguing that Harvard has failed to prove it does not unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process.
Penn is the second most popular Ivy for transfer students after Cornell. Here's why.
For the 2017-2018 school year, Penn had a transfer acceptance rate of 8.14 percent and took in 221 out of the 2,715 students who applied. These numbers are second only to Cornell University.
Penn's Dean of Admissions comments on UChicago’s decision to drop SAT/ACT requirement
While some universities — most liberal arts colleges — across the country have done so since the 1950s, the University of Chicago is the first top-10 research university in the United States to adopt a test-optional admissions policy, according to the Washington Post.
Penn Law applicants can now take the GRE and GMAT examinations under new pilot program
In an emailed statement, Penn Law announced the launch of a pilot program that aimed to strengthen the school’s “cross-disciplinary curriculum” by accepting two examinations that are mainly taken by business students.
For some admitted students, Quaker Days can be a deciding factor in their college decisions
Over the two-day period, students are introduced to the various academic, social, cultural, residential, and extracurricular opportunities that the University has to offer.
Meet Juliet Lubwama: national student poet and a member of Class of 2022
The Scholastic Awards recognized Lubwama as a 2017 Northeast National Student Poet last year, after undergoing a rigorous selection process.
U.S. DOJ launches investigation into practice of sharing of ED applicants information
An unspecified number of colleges received letters on April 5 and 6 informing them of the investigation and instructing them to maintain certain relevant documents. Penn was not one of those schools.
