<p>Sugar Magnolia, I am a parent of a D starting Penn this fall. She was accepted ED to CAS with stellar stats and EC’s and I was getting tired of people’s general attitude that Penn wasn’t at the top or upper tier of ivies. I’ve gotten the Oh Penn State look, oh did she not get in at Yale etc. etc. </p>
<p>This is just an anxious mom having slight “buyers remorse” and am trying to reassure myself that this was the right decision for her. By using the phrase “Let the games begin” i was merely inviting a lively discussion that typically seems to follow a controversial post like this. I believe the WSJ report has been debated here on CC, but I wasn’t sure if anyone actually broke down the numbers to see that Penn would have actually fared much better had the numbers been looked at the way i presented, I am sincerley asking for input, i am not even sure if my logic is correct.</p>
<p>Thanks Venkat, I do see the east coast bias too now, do u agree with the reductions to the student class size at Penn? This report is basically saying what % of their class got in to these classes. It would be more interesting to see of the actual group that applied to these schools, what % actually got in. That would take into account any discrepancies in class size and show the success rate of these grads getting accepted into any elite school. ie. if a large group of Penn grads are NOT looking for grad school, that should NOT be a factor in determining the acceptace success rate for the schools grads. Make sense?</p>
<p>Thanks for your input!</p>