Thank you for your email. It can be difficult for students to learn that they have been wait-listed, and we understand you may have questions regarding your son’s admission decision. Should spaces in the class become available, we may turn to the wait list in early May, and decisions will be released on a rolling basis throughout May and June. Applicants placed on the wait list should plan on attending another school to which they have been admitted and should proceed with the necessary arrangements, including depositing.
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has anyone gotten off? i’m losing hope
Move on. Seriously, get motivated to attend a school that has already accepted you. In recent cycles, fewer than 150 applicants who took a spot on the waitlist received offers of admission. Maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised, but be realistic — the odds are very, very slim.
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Parents should not be contacting admissions with these questions. A Penn-ready student should know how to self advocate.
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Girl I alr got off two waitlists where ppl say “the chances are very slim,” so it’s def not unrealistic to keep hope.
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I will repeat: based on past stats, there’s a high likelihood that there are more than 2,500 applicants who have taken a spot on Penn’s waitlist. And in recent years, no more than 150 have been admitted.
Could someone on this thread succeed under those odds? Perhaps. Given the circumstances, I worry that too many people are pining and fretting too much. It would be far healthier to prepare for an alternative to Penn. Put Penn out of mind, unless or until the day comes when Penn makes you one of the lucky few.
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I’ve noticed that other ivies’ waitlists are still moving but we haven’t heard anything from Penn. Penn hasn’t even sent out any communication and it’s June, a time when many are registering for classes. I wish they just gave us a decision already. It baffles me how other ivies are still giving acceptances but not Penn. Penn takes off significantly more people off the WL. If someone could call/email them that would be great.
I know it is hard. Please understand that Penn took almost none off the WL last cycle, and it appears it is very few or none this year. The few cycles before that it was less than 150. Applications were way up again, and it is a popular school with high yield. Cornell was the only ivy that moved significantly last year, and this year it is moving a lot, and a few other ivies are moving some, but yet not Penn. It is a very outdated myth that Penn takes “significantly more” off the WL than peers. They do not. The numbers over the past 5+ years indicate they take slightly LESS off WL than ivy /T10 peers. This year is following that same pattern. Best of luck to you.
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why no one from america is contacting them? We as international ain’t able to contact them. And if someones school counselor can contact them it will be great as I have read from last year thread they told the number of spots to counselor.
here…check this[2027]
If you’ve read this thread, you should know that someone has called them, and they received no insight. The post you reference from last year also did not provide special information. Penn is not going to divulge any inside scoop that will increase your knowledge or reduce your anxiety. Here is what is knowable:
Penn keeps its WL open through June. It does not provide updates on WL stats or movement. Anyone remaining on the WL when it closes will receive an email, typically at the end of June.
The comment from last year’s WL thread confirmed conventional wisdom, which is that more spaces typically open up for CAS. Why would that be the expectation? Well, CAS is the largest of Penn’s schools, by a lot. The other schools — SEAS, Nursing and Wharton — are not only smaller, but they have more of a self-selecting applicant pool that’s more likely to “yield.” Two of those schools, Nursing and Wharton, are also regarded as the best of their kind in the country (world?), which again helps their yield, while SEAS offers some of the most competitive majors in US higher education today.
Penn’s waitlist is typically 2,500+ applicants long. In recent years fewer than 150 have received an offer of admission.
That’s it, that’s all the info we have or can expect. Calling or pounding on the door is not going to change that.
More importantly, the stress over this is not productive. You know the odds. The healthiest thing to do is to prepare to matriculate at another school while Penn’s process plays out. Worry about the things you can change or influence. Understand the long odds for you with Penn, accept them, and don’t obsess.
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No, that poster only claimed their counselor heard spots were opening for CAS only. We should not assume a participant on a social media platform is a reliable narrator. That said, it is not surprising that CAS should have more movement, given its size and the pre-professional nature of the other three Penn schools. That’s already conventional speculation.
Move the conversation forward please
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does anyone know when the latest date for acceptances are?
They are usually released mid-July, along with the waitlist data.
what’s the latest the previous class heard back?
They closed the waitlist on June 30 last year.
No. Penn releases WL decisions through June and typically closes the WL by end of June.
Last year, they closed the Class of ‘27 WL on June 30. They closed the Class of ‘26 WL on June 14, 2022.
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Sorry I was confused with acceptance rates. Since Upenn doesn’t typically release acceptance rates directly, the only way we can know its acceptance rates, along with the waitlist data (so how many people were waitlisted, accepted the waitlist offer, and admitted through the waitlist) is through the yearly common data set, which is often released every july.
Just to clarify, the CDS released in July contains admissions data for the previous academic year’s freshman class, and not the most recently admitted class. I.e., the CDS to be released next month will contain admissions data for the Class of 2027, and not the Class of 2028.
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