UPenn Admissions Lieutenant Exits

Longtime University of Pennsylvania admissions staffer John T. McLaughlin, has announced that he will depart UPenn’s admissions office at year’s end to lead Hamilton College’s admissions staff. At Hamilton, McLaughlin will assume the role of the dean of admissions and associate vice president. McLaughlin, who has served in the role … 

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University of Pennsylvania Class of 2024 Admissions Statistics

All offers of admission to applicants to the University of Pennsylvania’s 268th class have now been extended. In all, between the Early Decision and Regular Decision admissions rounds, 3,404 students have earned admission to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based institution (1,269 in the ED round, 2,135 in the RD round). The total … 

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University of Pennsylvania Class of 2023 Admissions Statistics

The University of Pennsylvania has rendered its verdicts on the Class of 2023 and sent out decisions to all Regular Decision applicants. In total, between Early Decision and Regular Decision, 44,960 students applied for admission to UPenn in the hope of earning a slot in the incoming class. It marked … 

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University of Pennsylvania Tours

If you happened to take a child on a tour of the University of Pennsylvania last year and you find yourself back in Philadelphia to tour the campus again with a younger child this year, you might find the tour to be quite a bit different than in the past. … 

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UPenn Change in Admissions Policy

Ivy Coach is referenced today on the pages of the newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania, “The Daily Pennsylvanian.” The piece, written by Tiffany Yau, is entitled “Students, applicants respond to Penn’s changed testing requirements” and it focuses on how the admissions office at the University of Pennsylvania will no … 

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Change in Admissions Policy at UPenn

We have a change to an admissions policy to report at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning this fall, UPenn will no longer require applicants to submit two SAT Subject Test scores. Rather, they will only recommend that applicants submit two SAT Subject Test scores (UPenn recommends applicants submit two Subject Test scores … 

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Penn Admission

We salute Dean Furda at Penn for his efforts to humanize the highly selective college admissions process.