<p>Down by 40 students from last year to 162 out of over 2000 who apply.</p>
<p>[Waitlist</a> and transfer acceptances, yield rate see decline - News](<a href=“http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2009/09/15/News/Waitlist.And.Transfer.Acceptances.Yield.Rate.See.Decline-3771569.shtml]Waitlist”>http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2009/09/15/News/Waitlist.And.Transfer.Acceptances.Yield.Rate.See.Decline-3771569.shtml)</p>
<p>Uncertain as to what this may mean for future prospective transfers, although this year’s batch also had trouble finding on-campus housing.</p>
<p>Looks like the retention rate is increasing, and study abroad is quieting down. That’s great news for overall happiness of students, but not so great for transfers.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t necessarily trust those numbers in the DP article. The DP has been known to get admissions numbers wrong in the past (numbers not adding up, etc.).</p>
<p>For example, the article states that Penn accepted nearly 200 transfer applicants last year, but CollegeBoard.com states that Penn accepted 367 transfer applicants, with 234 of those actually enrolling:</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - University of Pennsylvania - Penn - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if 162 is actually the number of accepted transfer applicants who ENROLLED for 2009-2010, and NOT the number accepted. Confusion and conflation of admissions numbers is not unusual, especially when the DP is involved. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>And, unless I missed something, the number of transfer applications for 2009-2010 hasn’t been released yet, so we don’t know that it was more than 2,000.</p>
<p>Interesting indeed - it’s unlikely that the college board has false information, so I’ll have to look into that - if you’re sure their data is only a year old.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure only about 95 transfers enrolled this year, though.</p>
<p>Since you’re on campus, why not go into the Admissions Office and ask? They keep delaying posting the Class of 2013 stats on the web site, so maybe you can get those, also. :)</p>
<p>lol. I know some people who know some people - I’ll try to get that information by later tonight. I’ll post it here.</p>
<p>OK - I got the info. According to someone who was intimately involved in the transfer process (administrative work thus knew the exact numbers), there are only 140 transfers this year. The 160 number includes 20 grad nurses who don’t have another orientation for themselves. The accepted number was 195, apparently, out of nearly 2200, which is an 8.8% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>^ I dunno–if that’s true, it sounds like a fairly significant sea change. Last year they accepted 367 transfers out of 2,190 applicants, and 234 of those actually enrolled:</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - University of Pennsylvania - Penn - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>According to your source, even though they were faced with roughly the same number of transfer applicants, they cut the accepted/enrolled numbers almost in half. I guess that’s possible, but we’ll have to wait until collegeboard.com updates its numbers in a month or so with Fall 2009 stats to “officially” confirm it.</p>
<p>I agree that it sounds bizarre, but the guy told me that the numbers would almost certainly be back to normal rates next year, and that for some reason there was a hiccup in study-abroad, which severely restricted dorm-space - as you may recall, earlier this summer there was an article in the DP about transfer students without dorm rooms for the fall semester.</p>