did some further research. Penn didn’t even release class of 2027 ED stats regarding acceptance rate. stop spreading misinformation online.
The combined Rd and ED % was said by the dean at an orientation event, as well as the phrase it was the lowest acceptance rate for Engineering ever. I am not spreading misinformation nor am I tryiing to “psych anyone out”. An entire room full of engineering parents and new engineers heard it. It is, unfortunately, an accurate number for Engineering.
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even MIT’s RD rate is 3.8%. If you are a parent that is very very proud of their kid that is in Penn Engineering, I am happy for you but the 3% stat is just simply not true. I’m sure it was very selective, but not as bad as you try to paint it out to be.
Pride has nothing to do with it, neither does MiT. A lower admission rate does not make one school better or more brag-worthy: it is just the data. Many peer schools have extremely low admissions %, especially for Engineering and/or CS: they are just popular fields right now, and colleges that offer them get many more applicants than they used to. Some, like Penn, have fairly small cohorts each year. Penn has 370 single-degree Engineers in the matriculated class of ‘27, and 87 dual-degree program Engineers(28viper, 59M&T) : at Parents’ weekend the same dean had slides of those #s, said almost 15,000 of the total application pool (ED and RD)was to Engineering, &repeated that it was the lowest acceptance rate ever, and that they somewhat over-yielded. The math checks out and supports the orientation speech. The point in sharing that the rate was announced so low was to add some real data for just how competitive Penn (and many other schools in Engineering) has gotten.
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if a lower acceptance rate doesn’t make a school better, would you rather take penn state over upenn?
and i think you are right! in fact I’ve heard that penn engineering has a 3% acceptance rate for people WITH a 1600 sat score, not just the general admission stat. not 100% if its true but it just shows how competitive admissions has gotten! fascinating!
OK, let’s get back to the ED discussion and away from acceptance rate at individual schools, a debate that was pointless to begin, since it started with a recent response to a 6 week old post asking if they should apply ED. That deadline has passed.
If anyone wants to continue the acceptance rate discussion, feel free to start a new thread.
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I believe it, Penn is super hard ot begin with and some majors more so. People don’t believe me when I tell them that UWashington (UDub) acceptance rate for OOS for CS is 2% !
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My son applied ED to Upenn.
Yesterday he received an email asking him to upload our W2’s Tax Returns etc to the Student Portal.
We already submitted our CSS profile. Did everybody else receive the same email?
We did NOT because we followed the Financial Aid checklist on Penn website which specifically listed to upload W-2, K1 schedule, etc when our daughter applied ED end of October.
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This is a few days old so maybe you already know this… but my daughter got an email from Penn last week saying they would send an email THIS week (12/4) with release date and time for next week!
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Thank you @CAMama24
I didn’t upload our documents earlier thinking CSS profile would be enough. My bad.
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In all honesty, we did it a couple of days after she applied when I had a panic dream I had forgot something and double checked the website! lol
No worries I am like that too usually but this college stuff is all foreign to me 
Chance-me please:
ED UPenn, Physics major
Oregon, asian female, large public high school (300 seniors)
Rank: 1, GPA: 4.72/4.00, AP: 16 (15 5’s and 1 4, which is Lang), SAT 1540 (740+800)
AIME Qualifier (AMC 12A 96 last year), Simons Summer Research Program, Physics Bowl Div2 31/40 last year, F=ma 15 (didn’t qualify PhO though), Science Bowl Club Captain, Math Club captain.
Three letters of recs, 1 from professor at Simons SRP, 1 math teacher (“top 10 student i’ve seen”) and 1 physics teacher (idk what he wrote but he likes me)
Common App essay is pretty mediocre, I wrote about volunteering to perform piano. I played piano for 13 years.
I didn’t talk about leadership in my essays but I did report in my activity section.
Thanks in advance to anyone who would reply to me!
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You are a strong applicant and as you know at least 80% of the applicants will have similarly strong profiles like yours. Good luck, it is pretty much a lottery amongst strong applicants who are not recruited athletes, legacies or FGLI with great stats
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I am a parent and can’t really comment on your chances since this is something new for me as I am an expat in this country. But my son also applied to Upenn ED and your stats, rank, GPA and activities are better than his. So good luck to you. On side note, are you a Jets fan by any chance?
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I have no idea what your chances are (and unless someone on here is a Penn admissions person, I doubt they do either!) but good luck to you! You sound very well qualified to be academically successful at any school.
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Anybody know when Ed decisions come out ?
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