<p>Recently, my friend said he got waitlisted at UPenn CAS, but called and argued for an hour and was taken off the waitlist shortly after. He also said he won some merit-based scholarship from there.</p>
<p>However, he says that he cannot afford the tuition and is thus just going to the state flag school. Is there legitimacy in his claims?</p>
<p>hahaha UPenn does NOT offer merit-based scholarships (the whole Ivy League doesn’t). He might be lying or not. But most likely, he is. :P</p>
<p>Impossibilities:
-Penn accepting someone off the waitlist in April
-Penn accepting someone off the waitlist over the phone
-Penn offering a merit-based scholarship</p>
<p>That’s a lot of impossible for such a short story.</p>
<p>Sounds like he’s lying.</p>
<p>The first impossibility is actually possible. Small numbers usually but ivies do accept people off wl quite early. A few people I know got off the wl from cornell in like the first 2 weeks.</p>
<p>however, disgradius, did they call up and argue to be taken off?</p>
<p>of course not, it doesn’t work unless you became a billionaire overnight and are calling them to inform them of their ‘mistake’ in sending you the wrong decision letter.</p>