Applying Early Decision to UPenn

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 … 

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Penn Class of 2023 Early Decision Pool

Last year, 6,731 students applied to the University of Pennsylvania in the Early Decision round. So how do this year’s figures stack up? 6,746 students applied under Penn’s binding Early Decision policy this fall in the hope of earning admission to its Class of 2023. This marks a 0.22% increase … 

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Penn’s Early Decision Deadline

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. … 

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Penn Early Decision Policy Change

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 … 

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Penn Early Decision Numbers

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 … 

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Early Decision at Penn

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 … 

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Penn Early Decision Applications

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 … 

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Penn Early Decision

Penn Early Decision numbers are in and applications are up by about 5.9% from last year’s cycle. There was an article published last night by “The Daily Pennsylvanian,” the newspaper of UPenn, in which our founder, Bev Taylor, is quoted that suggests that Penn’s Early Decision application data compares favorably … 

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