Early decision deadline extended due to snowstorm
Due to last weekend’s Northeastern snowstorm, the Admissions Office has extended its early decision application deadline from Tuesday, Nov. 1 to this Friday.
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Due to last weekend’s Northeastern snowstorm, the Admissions Office has extended its early decision application deadline from Tuesday, Nov. 1 to this Friday.
After spending last summer at a program on Penn’s campus, Lauren Shapiro decided to apply early decision.
For Conestoga High School senior Julianna Quazi, applying early decision to Penn was a no-brainer.
Every year, around 300 students at Penn are identified with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Student Disabilities Services.
For Engineering senior Divyang Arora, the last two years of high school in India consisted of six-hour coaching classes for college entrance exams and weekends consumed by individual study sessions. Students in India “don’t like to waste one second in 11th and 12th grade,” Arora said.
On Monday, admissions officers will return to Penn after visiting different corners of the globe to prepare to read early decision applications, due Nov. 1.
This Friday, Penn students will join other “Occupy Eric Cantor” protesters in a march from City Hall to Huntsman Hall.
Last month, Republicans in the United States House of Representatives announced a budget proposal that would cut funding for Pell Grants by $2.3 billion.
On the international stage, Penn jumped from 19th to 16th in this year’s “World University Rankings” by Times Higher Education. Harvard University, which has ranked first for the past seven years, was replaced by the California Institute of Technology.
Today, Penn students are expected to join around 1,000 people at the Occupy Philadelphia protest outside City Hall.
When it comes to paying for their Penn education, international students are at a disadvantage.
Most incoming freshmen believe they will graduate in four years. However, every year, a small group of “super seniors” remain at the University after their friends have graduated.
The bane of every high school student’s existence — the SAT — isn’t going away anytime soon.
Students walking down Locust Walk midday on Wednesday were greeted with cries such as “Are you against racism?” and “Do you support human rights?”
About 10 years ago, then-Penn President Judith Rodin “poked a bony finger” at former Deputy Provost Peter Conn and told him to help Penn students win more fellowships, Conn recalled at the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowship’s 10th Anniversary celebration on Tuesday.
As the number of students attending charter schools nationwide rises, Penn is witnessing a surge of applicants from these schools.
Although Penn climbed the moral ladder in the Washington Monthly’s annual “public good” ranking by jumping from 34th place to the 21st this year, many faculty and administrators remained unsatisfied.
For the second year in a row, Penn came in fifth on U.S. News and World Report’s list of top national universities for 2012. The Wharton School placed first in the ranking for undergraduate business schools.
On any given day, hundreds of Penn students may pass it by while giving little or no notice.
This year, 80 freshmen will strive to land on the moon, according to Penn President Amy Gutmann. She was referring to the new class of Integrated Studies Program students in the program’s welcome address on Wednesday afternoon.