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Also, I am pleased to acknowledge and highlight our new Eric J. Furda C’87
partnership with The Universal College Application (in Dean
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Ge o g r a p h i c D i s t r i b u t i o n o f t h e C l a s s o f 2 0 1 2 *
WA
17
ME
ND 5
MT
5 3
OR VT
21 MN 5 NH
ID SD 23 NY 6 MA - 82
WI
3 2 12 297
WY MI
2 24 RI - 7
IA
PA CT - 77
NE 397
NV 5 9 NJ - 243
3 UT IL OH DE - 7
IN 35
7 50 10 MD - 114
CO WV VA
CA 24 KS MO 3 DC - 19
KY 50
219 6 19 11
NC
TN 16
AZ 20
16 NM OK
10 6 AR SC
3 6
MS AL GA 1 to 5
1 9 32
TX LA 6 to 15
ASIA 133 67 9
CANADA 43
16 to 25
AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST 41
FL
EUROPE/BRITISH ISLES 61 81 26 to 50
ALASKA 3
AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS 13
HAWAII 7
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA/CARIBBEAN 41 51 and over
PUERTO RICO 4
INTERNATIONAL TOTAL 332 VIRGIN ISLANDS 1
S t at i s t i c s f o r t h e C l a s s o f 2 0 1 2 *
Volume
TOTAL APPLICANTS TOTAL ADMITTED PERCENT ADMITTED TOTAL ENROLLED PERCENT ENROLLED
22,935 3,888 16.95% 2,445 62.89%
EARLY DECISION APPLICANTS TOTAL ADMITTED TOTAL DEFERRED DEFERRED APPLICANTS
IN DECEMBER IN DECEMBER ADMITTED IN APRIL
3,912 1,147 (29.3%) 1,250 (32.0%) 130 (10.4%)
S t at i s t i c s f o r t h e C l a s s o f 2 0 1 2 *
Rank in Class (16,848 applicants attended a secondary school that did not provide rank in class)
PERCENT
APPLIED ADMITTED ADMITTED ENROLLED
Valedictorian 854 385 45.1% 206
Salutatorian 362 123 34.0% 61
Other Top Five Percent 2,376 420 17.7% 271
Second Five Percent 1,164 97 8.3% 72
Total Top Decile 4,756 1,025 21.6% 610
Second Decile 703 21 3.0% 19
Second Quintile 480 1 0.2% 0
Third Quintile 110 0 0% 0
Fourth Quintile 32 0 0% 0
Fifth Quintile 6 0 0% 0
No Rank 16,848 2,841 16.9% 1,816
Total 22,935 3,888 16.95% 2,445
WRITING
PERCENT
APPLIED ADMITTED ADMITTED ENROLLED
750–800 4,594 1,360 30% 721
700–740 5,128 1,091 21% 707
650–690 4,648 712 15% 502
600–640 2,962 338 11% 235
550–590 1,802 126 7% 95
500–540 870 31 4% 19
Under 500 716 5 1% 5
ACT only 1,350 225 17% 161
Incomplete Testing 865 0 0% 0
Total 22,935 3,888 16.95% 2,445
Testing Means for the Middle 50 percent of Admitted Students (25th-75th percentiles)
SAT: CRITICAL READING SAT: MATH SAT: WRITING ACT COMPOSITE
650–760 680–780 670–760 31–34
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Admissions Staff
Eric J. Furda C’87 (215) 898-2886 Elizabeth A. Downing C’04 (215) 898-1886 Mark L. Shank (215) 898-7901
Dean of Admissions Regional Director: Pennsylvania (Montgomery Regional Director: Canada, the Caribbean
New York (Manhattan and the Bronx) and Philadelphia Counties)
Peter Silberman C’05 (215) 898-3061
Angela Sweeney (215) 898-2886 Blair Godfrey (215) 898-1520 Regional Director: Idaho, Illinois, Montana,
Executive Assistant to the Dean Regional Director: New Jersey (Southern) Ohio, Oregon, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Washington, Wyoming
Quenby Jackson Mott (215) 898-7928 Alexa Gonzalez GSE’99
Vice Dean, Director of Admissions (215) 898-8336 Najwa Smith (215) 573-0201
California (Northern Zip Codes: 939-961) Assistant Director, Multicultural Assistant Director, Multicultural
Recruitment Program Recruitment Program
David M. Phillips (215) 898-6349
Regional Director: Florida, Puerto Rico, Regional Director: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska,
Vice Dean, Director of Information and
Virgin Islands New York (Upstate), Oklahoma, Texas
Management Systems
Joel Hart (215) 898-6905 Elizabeth Spegele GSE’05 (215) 898-2468
Jonathan S. Katzenbach (215) 898-4697
Regional Director: New York (Rockland and Regional Director: Central and South America,
Associate Dean
Westchester Counties), Pennsylvania (Western), South Asia, the Gulf Cooperative Countries,
Arizona, District of Columbia, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia Colorado, Utah
New Mexico
Ellen Kim C’02 (215) 898-1130 David M. Toomer (215) 898-7541
Elisabeth O’Connell W’81
Regional Director: New York (Long Island), Director, Multicultural Recruitment Program
(215) 898-7901
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin Regional Director: New Jersey (Northern)
Associate Dean
Australia, New Zealand, Guam, East Asia, Cat McManus GSE’08 (215) 898-7126 Valerie Marchand Welsh (215) 898-1520
sub-Saharan Africa Regional Director: Massachusetts, Director, On-Campus Programs
Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, and Delaware Regional Director: New Jersey (Southern)
Sean Vereen GSE ’00, GSE ’05 (215) 898-8587
Counties)
Associate Dean Jordan Pascucci (215) 898-2380
New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island) Lauren O’Garro-Moore (215) 898-0867 Assistant Director, On-Campus Programs
Regional Director: Georgia, New Jersey
Beth Ann Burkmar (215) 898-7901 Admissions Coordinators:
(Central), North Carolina, South Carolina
Regional Director: Europe, North Africa, the Jacquelyn Buechele (215) 898-7901
Middle East, New Jersey (Monmouth County) Jacinda C. Ojeda (215) 898-7518 Jennifer Cleveland C’07 (215) 898-8587
Regional Director: Connecticut, Delaware, Maria Dantis (215) 898-7928
Doris S. Cochran-Fikes CW’72
Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Kara Dewhurst C’07 (215) 898-4697
(215) 898-6903
(Northeast and Central), Rhode Island, Vermont Pat Gallagher (215) 898-4702
Director, Alumni Secondary School Committees
Camille Green (215) 898-8584
Regional Director: Alabama, Arkansas, Alexandra Santiago (215) 898-8584
Siobhan O’Neill (215) 898-7502
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee Regional Director: California (Southern Zip
Eddrena Owens (215) 898-6080
Codes: 900-938), Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada
Phyllis Pompa (215) 898-0867