Admission Denied

kokomon89 · 04-02-2007, 03:15 PM

Does UPENN have an appeal system? I got rejected today. Oh wells... i worked really hard and brought up my ranking by 11 spaces (top 4% now)....great volunteering and extra cirrc activities, all As except for a B in AP Calc BC, 5 AP 2 honor courses, great recc and great interview...it seems that it was wasted...all that hard work gone down the drain...

ITs okay...i faced so much crap and hardships for the 18 years of my life...i got into UC Berkeley...so hurrah for CLASS of 2011!!!!!!! However, i think eraly decision should be eliminated from UPENN. It has a significant bias in the selection process. (UPENN only chooses 1 or but rarely 2 persons in one school) Following the assumption from the parantheses: If a girl gets in for early decison, and then others get rejected in regular decision who are just eqally qualified or highly qualifed than she. It seems biased and unfair. (this happened in my school)....(that girl cheats and misses tests to get higher subscores)

DSharC · 04-02-2007, 03:21 PM

No, they don't have an appeal system. Also, UPENN doesn't have a quota for schools. Almost every year they accept at least 30 people from my high school. Enjoy your time at UC Berkeley...it's a great school.

kokomon89 · 04-02-2007, 04:01 PM

did you go to a private school or something? I have never heard of a school having at least 30 kids accepted into an Ivy League School. It seems to be ridiculous. So far from i know only about 1-3 kids from one same school get accepted into one the high elite schools. My school we have about one person geting accepted into 10 top private schools (MIT, HARvard, UPENN, Harvey Mudd, Cal Tech, Stanford,....), I only heard of some schools having at least 15-20 kids getting accpeted into the top public schools such as Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego. Does anybody agree with me?

sristi · 04-02-2007, 04:04 PM

I go to a public and we have 10+ kids who got into ivies and stanford.

tenebrousfire · 04-02-2007, 04:16 PM

i know of several top public high schools that send plenty of kids to the ivies - in the past few years mine has sent maybe 10-20 per year, and that's nothing compared to stuy, or tj, or the like...

DSharC · 04-02-2007, 04:21 PM

Yep, my school is public and that number is only for students accepted to Penn. Most of us were accepted to multiple "Ivies" because people respect Central High of Philadelphia. anyway, as with the previous comments there isn't a quota. What do you plan on majoring in?

2o_o7 · 04-02-2007, 04:29 PM

I go to a small, all-girls private (graduating class of about 47); for Penn 4 got in ED, 2 (including me) RD, with 2 waitlisted. I suppose we are something of a "feeder"

Brown man1987 · 04-02-2007, 04:38 PM

Sorry bud, no appeals process

EskimoGirl · 04-02-2007, 07:07 PM

i go to a medium sized private school in north hollywood that sends around 15-16 kids to penn each year. this year we'll probably send even more, about 10-12 (out of 27) got accepted ed and another 10-12 (out of 50-something) got accepted rd. but we are definitely a feeder school to the ivies (especially penn, columbia, and yale) and stanford.

Venkat89 · 04-02-2007, 07:48 PM

I got to a competitive public. We're a feeder to the Big 10 (even though we are in Maryland). We have a bunch of Ivy admits every year. I think ~5 to Penn, ~5+ to Cornell, 1 to each of HYP, ~2 to Columbia, and varying numbers to Brown and Dartmouth. We also have a few go to MIT, Caltech, and Stanford. Duke has about 5 go. WashU, NU, Emory, Vandy, Rice, and that level of private schools each have atleast 5 go each year.

DSharC · 04-02-2007, 08:12 PM

lol at the direction of this thread

downtown128 · 04-02-2007, 10:34 PM

From admissions appeal process ----> Bragging grounds for one's high school

2o_o7 · 04-03-2007, 06:16 AM

yeah...we could infer that.

sorry i think i started this, it was just intended to illustrate that penn has taken multiple students from a high school :-x

trust me, my school's general record is nothing to brag about!

megaman123 · 04-05-2007, 03:37 PM

ED. shouldn't be eliminated, it gives people who really lvoe the school a chance to show it. In our school a friend of mine applied ED to Penn, he got in. Another two of us applied RD and we still got in, so really I wouldn't blame ED.

YankeeBoy115 · 04-05-2007, 11:54 PM

ED is messed up when a school accepts almost half of their acceptances early. (Stanford)

because then there are significantly more applicants, and the same amount of spaces in the class, which makes it even harder to get in...

but I wouldn't complain. it gives the people who truly like the school the advantage, and technically, they deserve it because they really do like the school probably more than others who apply RD.