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<p>anialways, thank you for the helpful posts!
Are you another indian parent or is this your daughter? :p</p>
<p>srw999: Pomona?!?! And you left it?! Sorry, I shouldn’t judge. Last yr Pomona had a 100% yield. Did you ask for FA btw? Jai Hind :)</p>
<p>wipe with the left hand and shake with the right.</p>
<p>My fortune cookie said that.</p>
<p>^Errr…what?
Always listen to your fortune cookie. ;)</p>
<p>^Really? Last yr, no one got off the waitlist (see the second post <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pomona-college/1119276-pomona-waitlist.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pomona-college/1119276-pomona-waitlist.html</a>), so I assumed that the yield would be 100%. Isn’t that how it works? :S</p>
<p>I’m glad you’re happy with your decision! That’s the most important thing. :)</p>
<p>It works only if they fall short on people.
See if they have 10 seats they admit 13 people they expect 3 to decline and they rest to say yes. Thats the college’s thinking of it. But sometimes (quite often actually) it so happens that more than the expected number (ie 3 in this case) say no. Thats when they go to waitlists.
Panoma probably accepted a lot of people and thus the number that said yes (to attend) was almost the number of seats they needed. So they don’t need to go to the waitlists.
Like Penn accepted 3500 people last year and 2380ish said yes. So the needed only 20 odd people from the waitlists. That does that not mean that penn’s yield was 99.1% (2380/2400*100) it was 68% (2380/3500).</p>
<p>Hi perfectpixie
I am an Indian parent, a mom.
My daughter is still busy with her IBDP Exams
And you are welcome.</p>
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<p>CSF is correct. You don’t need this. X360 games are region protected, not PS3 ones. That said, a buddy of mine in Fisher this past year had his PS3 trashed by his room-mate’s drunk friends while he was away. Unless you’re in a single or in one of the High-Rises, taking your console(s) to Penn could be a bad idea. </p>
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<p>Lol. I am diplomatic. Just not an online college discussion forum. 
Also, I didn’t get to bring up what I actually came here to discuss: a lot of full-pay internationals who get in but really, really don’t deserve to. But, I guess this is un-diplomatic too.</p>
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<p>68%? Sounds high. But, yeah, I don’t think Penn takes many from its wait lists.
-Just PM’ed you regarding the internship.</p>
<p>Anialways - what are IBDP exams?</p>
<p>Princetondreams - Penn had the third best yield last year after Harvard and Yale in the Ivies. I was there last August and picked up a school paper that was touting the achievement. I think they were at 66%?</p>
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<p>Yeah, just saw. That’s true. Wow.</p>
<p>The dual-degree programs there have generated a lot of interest at my school at least so I guess they really know how to use their strengths - Wharton and interdisciplinary programs. Makes me wonder if Penn will dominate all but H if they expand Wharton’s class size…?</p>
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<p>I believe anialways is referring to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.</p>
<p>Princeton you got that right IBDP</p>
<p>Ok. I am used to it being referred to as plain old IB and so that sounded different.</p>
<p>Penn already dominates all but H :)</p>
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<p>Lol, ok. :)</p>
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<p>Also, <3 your writing skills.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m bored. :P</p>
<p>^It sure looks like it.</p>
<p>A holiday is not a holiday until every minute’s been absolutely wasted.
I personally, can’t seem to have all the time I want to waste. 
I didn’t know there was an internal button for that. :rolleyes:
It’s true, but I guess schools that can’t afford to give significant funds to international students (which yes, is a big thing to ask, of course) who are also really good applicants, they settle for students who are less qualified compared to the domestic pool because they also don’t want to compromise on the diversity factor. Every year, you see so many students who are full pay and not really great applicants get into some good schools and FA asking kids get rejected. Money matters.
But PD, UPenn accepts quite a few Internationals on significant FA. Not only me, I know many others too. In fact, I think amongst the Ivies, the worst with FA is Cornell (gives only TATA to Indians apart from which accepts students and tells them they don’t have any FA left for them…how mean) followed by Brown/Columbia (brown, I’ve noticed, takes “just about anyone who can pay his way”,really weird people with awful stats accepted) and then Penn (coz after that you have all the need blinds)</p>
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<p>Lmao, I meant I can rant about random stuff. :D</p>
<p>Just some interesting stats on International Financial Aid:</p>
<p>COLUMBIA
Number of enrolled international undergraduates received aid: 202
Total amount awarded : $9,020,265</p>
<p>PRINCETON
Number of enrolled international undergraduates received aid: 405
Total amount awarded : $16,475,530</p>
<p>STANFORD
Number of enrolled international undergraduates received aid: 314
Total amount awarded : $9,862,995</p>
<p>CORNELL
Number of enrolled international undergraduates received aid: 213
Total amount awarded : $8,013,493</p>
<p>BROWN
Number of enrolled international undergraduates received aid: 188
Total amount awarded : $7,597,965</p>
<p>Stanford really needs to step up its financial aid program. The admitted internationals here [barring me, of course] are depressingly unimpressive, especially the M&T/etc. cross-admits.</p>
<p>Also, UPenn doesn’t disclose its Financial Aid stats for internationals to Collegeboard, but I remember reading that less than 10% of all internationals there are on aid (basically the only kids there who would be HYPS material if it weren’t for their international status).</p>
<p>P.S: There are a couple full-aid kids from Asia (and India in particular) in Brown '15 that are ridiculously impressive - the sort that would give H a run for its money.</p>
<p>Any place where I could actually read undergraduate profiles of students who got admitted into the Ivies?</p>
<p>(I don’t if it’s the right place to ask.)</p>
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Yeah, I said full pay, not full aid.
Anyway, please ignore my previous statement. One of the guys I know who is an excellent musician is going to Brown and he’s full pay. I shouldn’t have made a wide sweeping statement like that while thinking of some other cases.</p>
<p>^ Boo. Be more un-diplomatic. 
But, yeah, you’re right.</p>
<p>I know you said full-pay. I was just adding a point about how impressive I found a couple of these people (full-aid’ers at B) to be. Met one of them through a climate change conference and thought he’d undoubtedly end up at H, for example.</p>
<p>P.S: So far it seems Stanford lets just about anybody willing to pay full in. Especially if they’re from the Gulf countries. Seriously, I’m shocked these people aren’t at BU or something!! Yes, I’m being un-diplomatic. Because I can. :)</p>