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Old 04-30-2008, 12:24 PM   #35 (permalink)
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30 at Harvard (they accepted 39 students)
Those are the guys who rained on us waitlisters

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Penn's incoming class is 36.
A significant increase in the number of admitted students this year.
wow ... I bet profs will show no mercy....plus getting 2nd year funding will be a battle!

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In the past few years, Penn admitted around 23-25 students, I think the attrition rate next year could be as high as 50%
I agree. We will see. I have a friend going but I think he will make it through!

Well now I propose another reason smaller classes might be good : profs need L and if the class size is small relative to the faculty, the marginal failed student actually enters in the profs utility... and thats always good!
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