Tingley-Kelley v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

GENE E.K. PRATTER, District Judge.

Admission to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (“Penn Vet”) is extremely competitive. Each year, Penn Vet receives well over one thousand applications for approximately 150 offers of admission. 1 In 2007, Penn Vet’s acceptance rate of approximately 11% was equivalent to that of Penn’s Law School. In such a competitive process, it would seem that an applicant alleging that she was denied admission because of her gender would face a daunting task inasmuch as there are almost always applicants arguably more qualified and there are…