Jeremy Jick

Israel is often misrepresented at Penn. Whether through the placement of black flags on College Green or the construction of an “apartheid wall” in front of Van Pelt Library, Israel is depicted as an abominable tyrant and the substantive facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are deemed insignificant.

With revenue earned from the ILMUNC, the IAA funds its members to attend collegiate conferences, social events, academic programming, and other causes.

This year, Penn’s early decision admit rate increased by .4 percent, from 24.9 to 25.3 percent.

Despite the American Studies Association’s endorsement of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions on Wednesday, Penn remains adamantly against the measure.

The University received 5,133 applications, which is a 41 percent increase from 2008.

Despite national changes in medical school applications, the Perelman School of Medicine has kept its numbers relatively stable.

The Time to Shine tour celebrates the accomplishments of the $4.3 billion Making History fundraising campaign, which concluded in December 2012.

Some attribute this change in job shifts to cuts in research funding and monetary benefits of the private sector.

Even though the Common Application has been afflicted with technical issues this year, Penn still maintains that all early decision candidates send in their applications by Nov. 1.

The Curtis organ, which was donated to the University in 1927, has 10,731 individual pipes.