<p>7 of my friends this year have just gotten rejected by all their uni apps except for Upenn.<br>
Fair enough, 4 of them have only chosen colleges like HYP, MIT, Stanford (and some top ones in UK )but 3 of them didn’t even make it to “Warwick” and a few others in UK , and warwick isn’t even a famous uni … is it? :S</p>
<p>It’s not that much easier. Your friends are top applicants if they’re applying there anyway. Penn thought they were good fits.</p>
<p>Also, it has fewer applicants than other schools, and accepts more. It is one of the larger Ivy student bodies.</p>
<p>My friend got into every school to which she applied, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia… but she didn’t get into Penn. Anecdotal evidence means nothing.</p>
<p>Penn and Cornell have the largest class sizes in the Ivy League (about 2,400 and 3,000, respectively, while most of the others are 1,000-1,300, and Harvard a little bigger than that). Those two colleges actually get more applications than the other Ivies – Cornell a few more than Harvard, and Penn essentially tied with Yale for third. So if you combine those three factors – much larger class, slightly more applications, lower yield – you figure out that they are going to accept more people by a fairly significant margin. It’s that simple. On average, of course, that does mean they are “easier to get into”, in that they reject fewer top-quality applicants than Harvard and Yale do, because the numbers don’t force them to reject everyone that way. But they’re not “easy to get into” by any stretch of the imagination. They attract applicants with superb credentials, and don’t have to dip too far down into their applicant pools to get the students they want.</p>
<p>lemoncake: (from those of us Penn Alumni following Penn’s admission patterns for the past 5-10 years,) you might be reflecting the fact that Penn has made a concerted public effort to increase the % of international students who choose to attend.</p>
<p>theoneo: and I would hazard a guess that you are from the tri-state area…</p>
<p>anecdotal evidence certainly do mean something when numbers get large enough to form a sort of pattern… i’ve never actually seen HYP accept anyone who received "B"s in the british A levels, whereas a fair few in Penn. </p>
<p>mind, i actually got myself an offer from Penn too, but am at a British Uni because I want to be travelling around europe at the moment. this topic was purely out of random interest, and curiosity about whether other Ivies (and stanford/MIT) also accept so many candidates with great but not spectacular CVs.</p>
<p>Stanford and MIT are not Ivy Leagues.
Penn is easier to get into than HYP.</p>
<p>Warwick is pretty nice school with an emphasis on business.</p>
<p>okay, so n = …what? 5? Fail</p>