<p>ok i think everbody wants to see this.
this is basically a breakdown of average SAT, number applicants ED and RD.
…etc</p>
<p> <a href=“http://ivysuccess.com/university_of_pennsylvania_2008.html[/url]”>ivysuccess.com is for sale;
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>3,500 early applicants? That’s a lot.</p>
<p>Did anyone here use ivysuccess? I came across the site a while ago and was absolutley shocked!! 18,500 dollars and no guarantee! I begged my parents to do it, I was like I will pay you back, it’s an investment, you are ruining my future, but to no avail! I think there are a good number of those types of plans out there, one is even offered on CC. I think someone should write a story about all of this college madness, and look into how successful those college admissions sites actually are.</p>
<p>This is a very misleading article. Thanks for sharing it. But, the points on ED vs. RD don’t correlate to a direct comparison…just an FYI.</p>
<p>In the ED section, it says the average APPLICANT’s SAT was 1380. In the RD section, it says the average admitted student SAT was 1431. Who has a score of 1431??? I thought the scores werre in multiples of 10. </p>
<p>I would really like to see the average ED ADMITTED student’s score and the ED applicant’s score. </p>
<p>My conclusion from the article is that Penn takes about 44% of the class from ED. But, the ED and RD application pools are almost balanced so that you have a shot either way. I wish we had the average SAT of the ED admit AND the average SAT of the RD applicant. Wihtout this data, it’s hard to draw conclusions…whcih may be the point.</p>
<p>bro when you AVERAGE a score, so lets say 89 people get 1500 and 11 get 1470, it AVERAGES out to get something like a 1496.7 thats what an average is</p>
<p>wow… $20000 now</p>
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and wow that’s a lot of money. if you had that much money to spend to begin with… i dunno… do something else w/ it!!</p>
<p>my mom offered me that 18,000 thing and I told her absolutely not because im going to get into a school on my own merits</p>
<p>yeah… I shelled out 40 dollars for 2 SAT prep books and that’s good enough for me :)</p>
<p>haha exactley. its sick that people can buy their way into schools. i just checked out the website. all i can say is thank god i applied ED.</p>
<p>my II’s are tooooooooo low (693.3333 avg) =[</p>
<p>hey, you’re only 6.666666 points away from 700, thats not too low.</p>
<p>haha thanks for cheering me up, now lets see if i can get off this board and start my hw</p>
<p>MEH!!! I am too cool for packaging…I really am. Besides, I would rather spend the money on something useful, like Penn stuff, or an IPod with Penn carved on the back, or something…wait…this is turning into an obsession…</p>
<p>Thestonedpandas, I am so jealous, because I will not be getting in on my own merits or at all for that matter. But good for you for turning it down!</p>
<p>Jonathon is a trophy hunter. Jonathon has rich parents. Jonathon had 1260 and 1350 on his SAT’s. That is all you know.</p>
<p>Don’t you think that what you don’t know makes the story much more interesting? How many of you don’t think his parent is the CEO of some huge enterprise that has a huge granting foundation or a mega entertainment mogul…or something of that ilk. Or maybe Jonathon has won a gold medal in the Olympics, who knows…who cares.</p>
<p>Not real life.</p>
<p>No, I don’t mean that I’m confident that I’m getting in on my merits, but I just think that it would have been horribly unfair for me to do so.</p>
<p>what i think is:
that since they are ex-ivy admissions officers, they probably have some sort of connection to current admission officers.
and use persuasion (*hint x2 *nudge x2) to admit you into the college</p>
<p>yeah, what can they do anyway in your senior year that would help you? write your essays and thats it. recs, sats 1 and 2, rank and grades, and curriculum can’t be changed by some website. they could probably make up ec’s for you or something sneaky like that though.</p>
<p>Or the ex-adcoms made a duplicate of their office keys, and just “drop in” the admissions office in the middle of the night for a “friendly visit” and sneak your app into the “admit” pile. Conspiracy theories, I luv them.</p>