The University of Pennsylvania has released Early Decision admissions notifications for the Class of 2026. In all, 7,795 students applied to UPenn’s Class of 2026 under the school’s binding Early Decision program. It was, by all means, a large applicant pool — just, as Ivy Coach’s famously accurate crystal ball …
Will you be applying Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania by November 1st? If so, you might want to have a former UPenn admissions officer, Ivy Coach’s Jayson Weingarten, go through your application with you — piece by piece during Ivy Coach’s Senior Application Review — and let you …
Last year, every single one of Ivy Coach’s students who completed applications with us and applied Early Decision earned admission. This included a perfect sweep of the eight Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, and more. This year, unlike last year, we cannot report a streak of perfection across …
The University of Pennsylvania extended its Early Decision deadline for students affected by hurricanes. A few weeks back, the university’s admissions office announced that students applying from Alabama, the Florida panhandle, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina could apply as late as November 12th for Early Decision admission to Penn. …
Update: The University of Pennsylvania has reversed course on the change they were making to their Early Decision policy for this year’s applicants, likely bowing to pressure from high school counselors. As reported in a piece on Penn’s Early Decision policy by Julia Bell for “The Daily Pennsylvanian,” “Just weeks after …
Ivy Coach was featured a few days back on the pages of the University of Pennsylvania’s newspaper, “The Daily Pennsylvanian.” The piece, written by Sophia Leporte, is entitled “Early Decision pool becoming more diverse” and, naturally, it focuses on how the group of students who applied Early to UPenn is …
Bev Taylor, Founder of Ivy Coach, is featured today on the pages of “The Daily Pennsylvanian,” the newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. In a piece by Caroline Simon entitled “Early decision applicants fill more than half of the Class of 2019,” Bev raises her voice against the claim that …
Bev Taylor, Founder of Ivy Coach, has been quoted in an article of the University of Pennsylvania’s “Daily Pennsylvanian” on the topic of the rise of Early Decision applications to the school this year (a 5% increase for an all-time record). We’ve long discussed on the pages of our college …
Penn Early Decision applications reached a record high this fall. 5,133 students applied to Penn this year, marking a 6.6% increase from the Early Decision pool at Penn just last year. That’s a nice rise in applications for the Quakers. Just in 2008, Penn received only 3,631 applications, so this …
