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Undergrad Applications: On the Leading Edge
Applicants to Wharton’s undergraduate class of 2002 totaled
3,855, an 11.3 percent increase over last year’s 3,464.
Of the total applicant pool, 17.6 percent were admitted,
compared to 20.8 percent last year. “It was a very competitive
year and we were more selective,” notes Sue
Kauffman DePuyt, director of student services and administration
in the undergraduate division.
The size of the incoming class is 459 students, compared
to 506 last year. This year’s yield is 67.7 percent,
compared to 70.2 percent in 1997.
For the single degree program, applications totaled
3,063, 12 percent higher than last year. The number of
matriculants is 378, down from 417 last year, a decrease
that reflects in part the fewer number of students admitted
— 527 compared to 560 in 1997.
Applicants to the joint-degree Huntsman Program in
International Studies & Business (IS&B) totaled 439 compared
to 399 last year, and 37 students are matriculating,
the same as last year. In the joint-degree Jerome Fisher Program
in Management & Technology, applicants totaled
336, compared to 306 last year, and 40 students accepted
compared to 46 last year.
In the joint-degree nursing and health care management
program, 17 students applied compared to 23 last
year, and four accepted (six last year).
The average SAT score for all undergraduate matriculants
was 1426 compared to 1404 last year. Scores for the single
degree program totaled 1409, compared to 1386 in 1997.
Matriculants in the IS&B program and M&T programs
had average SAT scores of 1501 and 1515, respectively,
compared to 1517 and 1483 in 1997. Average SAT scores
for the nursing/health care program came in at 1399 compared
to 1374 last year.
Women make up 38 percent of this year’s class, compared
to 32 percent last year.
Among the members of the class of W’02 are four students
from the Leadership, Education and Development Program
(LEAD) at Wharton, and an additional 11 students from 10
other LEAD programs in the U.S. “It’s a very strong showing,”
states Harold J. Haskins, director of Wharton’s LEAD
program and head of student development support planning
at Penn, “and an indication of the significant number
of high quality students in the LEAD program itself.”
The LEAD program provides talented minority high school
juniors with an intensive, month-long introduction
to the world of business.
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