<p>Hi, I'm a prospective student who applied regular decision to Penn in October. I have always wanted to go to Penn. My dad went there. I want to be a vet and play club volleyball. I'm waiting for my admission decision and checking my penn portal at least 10 times a day. I'm very anxious for my decision and hoping I will be accepted to the school. Any advice on how to stay calm while waiting for my acceptance decision or how to increase my chances of getting in to Penn??</p>
<p>Get involved with your school work and activities. Go out in the snow and play. No point in checking the portal as decisions won’t be out for quite a while from now. Be realistic.</p>
<p>Penn isn’t exactly well known for veterinary medicine. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>^ actually its ranked fairly highly, its in the top five and second only to Cornell in the ivy league. it may not be well known for it but it has a quality school and even their doctor do some serious academic work, at least from my experience. the only problem is its a pain in the neck to get around that area b/c its right next to chop and the VA but hey, its philly, what do you expect.</p>
<p>kremlinoncharles,</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. You’re right, Penn is ranked pretty highly! Crazymomster must not be too familiar with the University of Pennsylvania. Penn actually has a whole School of Veterinary Medicine and the Ryan Veterinary Hospital located right on campus. In my case, I’m looking at the school for undergrad right now. But if it has a vet school, then their undergrad program for biology majors interested in Pre-Veterinary studies must be pretty impressive, right?</p>
<p>I’m nervous too! I stopped checking obsessively though, but if you can’t help it, I recommend using StayFocusd and blocking the site for a bit (this is an extension on Google Chrome).</p>
<p>Channel your restlessness into schoolwork. Honestly, that is a bit hypocritical because for me, its not the portal now that I’m obsessed with, its CollegeConfidential that’s making me stay up until I finish reading certain threads =P</p>
<p>Well I am not sure exactly on veterinary medicine but wasn’t Penn the school that treated Barbaro?!! The famed racehorse that should’ve won the Triple Crown but tragically shattered his foot during the Preakness after winning the Derby by a landslide?</p>
<p>Although Barbaro didn’t make it in the end, the vet who treated him I think got recognized for performing a complicated surgery.</p>
<p>haha thats funny because now I’ll most likely become addicted with College Confidential. I should try blocking the sites. Good suggestion. Not sure if I’ll do it or not but I really should. I just joined this site and I’ve already spent hours on here. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if Barbaro was treated at Penn. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was though. They have a very impressive veterinary hospital with experienced doctors. I’ll have to do some research and find out who treated Barbaro. Now I’m curious! </p>
<p>Thanks for your post and good luck with your college search process as well :)</p>
<p>If my memory serves me correctly Barbaro was treated at Penn’s large animal hospital. Don’t expect to volunteer there through, because it isn’t on campus.</p>
<p>And decisions aren’t posted in the portal, they have a separate decisions page Penn sends before the deadline.</p>
<p>I know because I already got my decisions in ED, deferred to RD :(</p>
<p>You should seriously diminish your idealized vision of what Penn is. Even if you get it, it seems that your vision of it is probably greater than what Penn (or any college) can deliver. 1) If you’re anywhere near a viable candidate, then you’re in for a likely successful collegiate career. 2) For successful top school applicants, the ironic thing is that most of them would do fine without the top school – they already are secure in their abilities and feel they are on the right road. They are the ones that don’t feel they need the college to set their life’s course for them. Are you feeling that if you’re not a Penn grad that all is lost? Then perhaps you’ve already missed the mark. Actual Ivy students I’ve known, while grateful for their colleges, exude an air that they would have been fine with or without regardless who granted them their diploma.</p>
<p>3) try to leave HS leaving no regrets. I made a concerted effort to kill my last year’s courses despite taking the heaviest load possible. Got a 4.0 and was a beast. Was shy about asking some girls out – realized that I had nothing to lose. Asked them all out (not that they all agreed – but not for wont of trying). This is your final semester with 99% of the people around you. Have a blast. Enjoy your last care-free semester and summer. That’ll get your mind off of Penn – regardless the outcome. You’ve worked hard. you deserve that.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>