ljh912000

How many students are in Wharton per grade????

Out of that many students, how many is picked from the ED??

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tenebrousfire

approximately 475 per year

hardworking21

Is that 475 ED or 475 total? Because I think 475 total is unrealistic value.

ChoklitRain

roughly 500 total per graduating class

Awped

Why is that?

ljh912000

475 students are picked in ED!!!!!?????

hardworking21

Because don't around 20,000 people apply? And if their admit rate is around 12%, 475 is not even close to these values. But I could easily be wrong.

akkipenn

20000 people apply to penn not wharton. approximately 4000-5000 apply wharton (assuming 20-25% applying to wharton). Plus wharton has a relatively lower admit rate im sure (8-10%) so thats why its about 500 per class.

Putting this into context of ED,
Overall 3500 people apply out of which approximately 800-900 apply for wharton (Assuming similar percentage of wharton applicants). Furthermore, approx 40% of the batch is chosen ED, so overall 200 students will be chosen ED for wharton out of the 800-900 applicants. Though, here the chances look high (20-23%) remember that the other applicants too are extremely qualified.

I maybe mistaken about the numbers but this is what i believe.

hardworking21

^^Ahh that makes sense now (numerically). I think my proportions were way out of context, I pictured around 20,000 applying to Wharton and thus skewed my views. Thanks for clearing that up.

waterbottle2009

sorry i'm a newbie.. but whats an ED?

ilovebagels

ED = Early Decision, when you apply early and have a higher chance of getting in, but in exchange you commit to going to that school if accepted.

acc3pt3d

What exactly is Wharton?

Grisam

Wharton is the finest business school in America and the world, ranking above Harvard Business School and the likes. Produces CEOs and executives of Fortune 500 companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton...f_Pennsylvania

crescent22

My guess is more apply than 4000-5000, because what you are forgetting is not all admitted actually accept.

I'd say with 22,000 applying (Class of 2013), 35% or 7700 are to Wharton (because it is Wharton, you know), of which 10% get in (770).

Of the 770, they expect 450 or 60% to accept.

Because of transfers and double-majors, the graduating class four years later balloons to over 600.

UHSdebater

Wharton's yield is around 80%, and very few transfers are accepted. A student applying for a dual degree (remember: you cannot "double major" across schools at Penn, you must fulfill the requirements for two separate degrees) after matriculation must also be accepted as a transfer, which, for wharton, would require around a 3.8 I think. Whether the whole process is fair is another story...