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03-29-2008, 11:07 PM
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#46 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Houston, TX Gender: Female
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| Does anyone know around what time in April, we receive "the email" notifying us of any potentially missing materials?? | 
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03-30-2008, 01:12 AM
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#47 | | Junior Member
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| Actually, I think the letter said mid-may, meaning after the first batch of decisions. | |
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03-30-2008, 01:18 PM
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#48 | | Junior Member
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| I'm at school right now, but my mom said something about financial aid came from Penn last week. I can't be sure it's the packet, but if I had to guess I would say that's what it is.
I've been wondering about the missing materials thing too. One of my professor's still has not submitted their recommendation, and I have no idea what happened to the form I gave to the Dean's office.
As far as why I am transferring to Penn
1) I really like that it has a liberal arts approach.
2) The professors, from what I have heard and read, are world class.
3) I think the environment would be more my style (I am not saying I am a superior intellectual, just that I currently go to Madison, a regular party school of the nation contender/winner, and I am sick of overhearing 45789324 conversations a day where someone explains how wasted they were and catalogs every thing they drank. I've always been slightly introverted and I feel like what I am looking to get out of college is different than what the majority of people here are are looking to get out of it. Not better, just different.)
4) I'd really like to get out of the midwest.
Obviously the name helps things, but the truth is that I only applied to Penn, not any of the other ivies or Stanford, which all have equally prestigious reputations. I definitely feel like there is something else about Penn which sets it apart for me. | |
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03-30-2008, 03:17 PM
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#49 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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| Transfer stats:
GPA - 3.8/4.0 from other ivy
SATs: 740 M 770 CR 740 W
SATII: 770 chem, 760 IIC
HS - 3.6 (perhaps a downward trend though after 1st sem. senior year, that might be bad)
Recs: one fantastic, one good
Essays: too subjective to know, but I think great
Reason for transfer: no neurobio here, penn has Bio basis of behavior
ECs: Very involved in magazine on campus | |
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03-31-2008, 10:26 PM
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#50 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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| Bump this baby back to the limelight, RD is over! | |
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03-31-2008, 11:28 PM
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#51 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
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| Let the countdown begin! | |
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04-01-2008, 01:57 AM
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#52 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Gender: Male
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| Did anyone get an email or something confirming that they received the application? I applied using the Apply Yourself thing and I haven't gotten anything from them. | |
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04-01-2008, 03:32 AM
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#53 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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| Penn sent a form postcard to my home address, essentially confirming that they had received my application but giving me no further data regarding any other facets of the process (score reports, recommendations, etc). | |
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04-01-2008, 06:03 AM
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#54 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Stanford '10 Gender: Male
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| Yeah, they sent me a postcard also indicating that they had received my application. | |
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04-01-2008, 06:19 PM
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#55 | | Junior Member
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| Has anyone had an interview? | |
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04-01-2008, 07:28 PM
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#56 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
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| no interview for transfers... | |
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04-01-2008, 08:44 PM
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#57 | | Junior Member
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| oh, silly me | |
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04-02-2008, 08:48 PM
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#58 | | Junior Member
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| I did not get a postcard yet. I am sure that my app is complete! | |
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04-02-2008, 09:16 PM
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#59 | | Junior Member
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| got mine. just give it another couple days and then call them? | |
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04-02-2008, 10:40 PM
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#60 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Houston, TX Gender: Female
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| On the blue postcard, it said that they would notify transfer applicants of missing materials in mid-May...is that some kind of typo?
I spoke with an admissions lady, and she said transfer applicants would receive an EMAIL for missing materials in April...so be on the lookout for that. Also I'm guessing this email will be coming sometime in Mid-April, because online decisions login and password are sent via snail mail in late April.
"Decisions will be released beginning in mid-May." - Penn transfer website.
It's gonna be a long six weeks... | |
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