“My running shoes are six months old, my computer is two years old, my car is six years old, but my house was built in 1908, and my Philadelphia neighborhood is considerably older than that.”

“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”

Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)