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Although winning a slew of scholarships in high school sounds like a great way to fund a college education, a combination of federal regulations and institutional policies often prevent students from seeing where their money goes. If the total amount of scholarship money exceeds $300, that money must go toward reducing need-based financial aid awarded by the school, according to Mark Kantrowitz, director of advanced projects for the scholarship-searching Web site FastWeb.

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There are two things wide-eyed freshmen can't seem to get enough of during NSO: drinking and advice. The former will be concentrated in periodic outbursts of debauchery, but the latter will be unforgivingly relentless, largely unhelpful and almost uniformly corny.

Over the past four decades, not only has Penn's campus changed, but so have its students. Click through this slideshow to see a few examples of what has changed and what hasn't.


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Over the past four decades, not only has Penn's campus changed, but so have its students. Click through this slideshow to see a few examples of what has changed and what hasn't.


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Although winning a slew of scholarships in high school sounds like a great way to fund a college education, a combination of federal regulations and institutional policies often prevent students from seeing where their money goes. If the total amount of scholarship money exceeds $300, that money must go toward reducing need-based financial aid awarded by the school, according to Mark Kantrowitz, director of advanced projects for the scholarship-searching Web site FastWeb.



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After almost eight years and seemingly endless delays, SEPTA's $710 million Market Street Elevated Reconstruction Project is nearly finished. The project replaces 11,000 feet of El support structure from 44th Street to Millbourne Street, renovates six stations and includes the construction of two new train control buildingsProxy-Connection: keep-alive


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After his first losing season in a decade, coach Al Bagnoli knew some changes were in line for Penn's storied football program. He brought in nutritionists and fitness gurus, and his players reported to Penn on their own three weeks before training camp. But more than anything, his role as team psychologist has a markedly different tone.



Football | A little friendly QB competition never hurt anyone…

For the second straight season, Robert Irvin is battling back from severe shoulder surgery. And once again, the quarterback - who started all 10 games as a sophomore in 2006 - must vie for his old job. Gone is Bryan Walker, who as a senior lost last fall's preseason competition only to step up when Irvin suffered a torn right labrum against Villanova in the second game of the year.


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View Larger Map Burglary: Aug. 20 - A male student, 21, reported that an unknown suspect entered his secured apartment on the 4000 block of Baltimore Avenue through a rear door and removed his laptop at 9:56 a.m. Aug. 22 - A male student, 25, reported that someone attempted to enter his residence on the 200 block of 42nd Street through an open window at 12:09 p.



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Former Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya pleaded no contest on June 5 to manslaughter charges in the death of Temple student Irina Zlotnikov, her ex-boyfriend's then-girlfriend. She was sentenced to five years in jail with credit for time served by Delaware Superior Court President Judge James Vaughn, according to The Associated Press.


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Penn's pre-professional environment can be extremely competitive, but when students return to campus in September, summer internships become a memory. According to an annual Career Services survey of the senior class' summers, over two-thirds of students entering their final year at Penn had internships.



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Engineering sophomore Michael Sheahan - whom friends remember as intelligent and understanding - was killed in a car crash on Monday night. Sheahan, 20, who is from Madison, Wis., died when his car collided with a dump truck in Caledonia, Ill., after Sheahan ran through a stop sign, according to the Boone Count


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As a graduate of the Class of 2008, here's a toast (or several pieces of it) to my batch-mates and all our wondrous experiences at Penn. While most of us have left the University in body, many remain connected as mentors to our underclassman friends, assistants to our professors and participants in programs and causes that we have pursued from our NSO days.



Class of 2012: The face of the freshman class

About 2,430 new students from all 50 states and every continent except Antarctica will arrive at Penn in the next several days, bearing New Student Orientation wristbands and an anticipation of their next four years on campus.


Volleyball Season Preview | Summer fun? No, it's practice

When the Ivy League provided an extra week of practice before the season, the Penn volleyball team didn't use the time to hit the gym for two-a-days and fitness training. Instead, the women scaled the rockclimbing wall at Pottruck and struggled to get through "the spider web" at a ropes course.