Experts and students raise concerns over long-term consequences of Penn’s tuition increases
Yoni Gutenmacher
March 12, 2018
Brian Taylor, director of the college counseling practice Ivy Coach, said that the yearly tuition increases are standard practice and normal procedures for any business.Read MoreCategories:
Penn admitted 18.5 percent of early decision applicants — a record-breaking low
Sarah Fortinsky
December 13, 2017
Penn admitted 18.5 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2022, a dramatic drop from last year’s 22 percent ED rate and the previous year’s 23.2 percent rate. Penn also received a record-breaking 7,074 early decision applications this year, a 15 percent increase from last year’s 6,147 applicants. Since … Read more Read MoreCategories:
Penn received a record-breaking number of Early Decision applicants for the Class of 2022
Harry Trustman
November 15, 2017
Taylor also credited Furda’s candor and outreach efforts for the increase in application numbers.Read MoreCategories:
Penn extends Early Decision deadline to Nov. 10 for students affected by natural disasters
Harry Trustman
November 9, 2017
Taylor, the managing director of college counseling service Ivy Coach, said the deadline extensions does not provide students with an unfair advantage.Read MoreCategories:
These Penn professors want to lower the rankings of schools that underpay adjunct faculty
Harry Trustman
October 28, 2017
Taylor also said he disagrees with the petition signed by the Penn professors, and does not think factoring in part-time faculty salaries into the USNWR would be useful for prospective applicants.Read MoreCategories:
How a Cornell student group sparked debate over who qualifies as an ‘underrepresented black student’
Harry Trustman
October 21, 2017
Taylor found it ironic that a politically left-leaning student group would express beliefs that are anti-immigrant in nature.Read MoreCategories:
Penn welcomes the Coalition App — an admissions platform designed to increase accessibility
Harry Trustman
October 1, 2017
“Why should you have to go to the great length of filling out this whole other application when so many schools don’t subscribe to the Coalition Application?” Taylor said.Read MoreCategories:
Penn keeps its No. 8 spot in latest U.S. News rankings
Harry Trustman
September 12, 2017
Taylor maintained that although most American applicants do not rely on USNWR as exclusively as Chinese applicants do, it still has a great deal of influence in the U.S., calling it the "kingpin" of college rankings.Read MoreCategories:
Legacies make up a sixth of Penn undergraduates. Experts disagree whether this needs to change.
Harry Trustman
August 30, 2017
Taylor rejected the focus of the Justice Department's affirmative action investigation and said legacy admissions, rather than affirmative action, plays the bigger role in Asian-American discrimination in college admissions. Read MoreCategories:
Class of 2021’s yield rate falls short of 2020’s record-high numbers
Harry Trustman
August 23, 2017
Taylor also noted that Penn’s application is particularly conducive to producing a higher yield rate, citing Penn’s supplemental application essay asking students to explain why they chose Penn. Read MoreCategories:
