<p>Penn is build on the “one campus” idea, meaning that although generally speaking different schools have different buildings (for example, Huntsman is a Wharton building; Williams is a College building, specifically the location where all of the language departments are located), it is all on one campus, and any student can take any course (with some limitations).</p>
<p>The Engineering school is centered in the eastern part of campus; Nursing is in the southern part (south of Spruce Street, in the ENORMOUS Penn Medical complex); Wharton is on the western side of the academic part of the campus (much of campus housing is on the west side of campus… seven dorm buildings, to be specific); and the College is in the center of campus. The Law School is on the northern end of campus, the school of Education is right in the middle, surrounded by CAS buildings… get the idea?</p>
<p>As an undergraduate in the College, I have taken three Wharton classes and one graduate political science course. I am scheduled to take a course in Engineering next semester.</p>
<p>One of the other benefits of Penn is the submatriculation program. For example, if you are majoring in Chemistry but have a few AP credits and have taken five courses per semester your whole time, you could start taking graduate level courses and, in your junior year, apply to the Chemistry Master’s program. Provided you do reasonably well in your graduate courses, you get accepted and have the chance to graduate on your original graduation date (i.e. May, 2013 for people who matriculated in September, 2009) with a Bacheor’s and a Master’s degree in Chemistry. The same goes with any of the other Master’s programs. You can submatriculate into the PhD program… not quite as easily, but not difficult at all. More difficult would be the professional schools: MBA, Med, Law, etc.</p>
<p>Now, what you want to do is completely different. The 7-year Dental option is something you can only apply to before Freshman year, and it is a very rigid curriculum. I honestly don’t know of anyone who is doing it… it is not an official program since few people apply, and there is no guarantee that ANYONE will be accepted to the program. Here is the official information on it: [UPenn</a> - SAS - Biology - Programs - Undergraduate - Other - Advice on Applying to Graduate School](<a href=“http://www.bio.upenn.edu/programs/undergraduate/other/biodental.html]UPenn”>http://www.bio.upenn.edu/programs/undergraduate/other/biodental.html)</p>
<p>The other submatriculation options at Penn are really cool, though. One of my friends submatriculated into the Vet school after her junior year; another submatriculated into the Med school! Multiple friends are graduating with their Master’s in addition to the BA</p>