45 Percenter

But up until the Class of 2013, it did, including numbers of applied/accepted by class rank (vals, sals, top 10%, etc.). To my knowledge, that was the only place where Penn would "boast" (as rodney put it) how many vals it rejected. With the Class of 2013, Penn has dropped all such data from its admissions web site, which MAY (emphasis on MAY) indicate an attempt to de-emphasize class rank as a primary factor in admissions.

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If I would like to game the system and the only thing left to game would be the percent admitted, I would encourage everyone to apply, but still keep taking only the top 10%. A good way to do this would be to remove any admissions statistics discouraging people to apply.

45 Percenter

^ Certainly that's one possible explanation. But unless the "e" and "f" in your member name stand for "Eric" and "Furda" , or you have some other connection inside the Admissions Office, I guess we can't know for sure.

For what it's worth, however, the real Eric Furda seems to be pretty satisfied with the current number of applications, and not feeling any pressure to significantly increase that number:

Total application numbers steady in 2009 | Interactive graph | The Daily Pennsylvanian

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Nah, it's just standing for End Of File from C programming, so no, I don't have inside knowledge.

45 Percenter

That's too bad--I was kinda hoping you could spill the beans on what really happened with Lee Stetson.