Applying to UPENN's Jerome Fisher?

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>Are any international applicants here applying early decision to UPENN's Jerome Fisher program (M&T)?</p>

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<p>right here</p>

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<p>our results will be out in like 11 days. u not worried? haha. i'm freakin out.</p>

<p>i heard they only accept 22 students from teh early pool for the fisher program. man, ur stats must be crazy huh</p>

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<p>oh sorrry,I am applying RD</p>

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<p>anyone attending this programme in fall '05?</p>

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<p>hey seeker, i am.</p>

<p>where you from?</p>

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<p>grats : ) singapore. you?</p>

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<p>Hi guys, Penn doesn't require int'l to submit TOEFL score, right?</p>

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<p>korea, nice to meet you seeker, anyone else from singapore?</p>

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<p>heh well seeya there then if all goes well. whatcha planning to major in?</p>

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<p>I am up for JF - from India.</p>

<p>I was tlking with some of the current students and they were saying that hardly ne1 completes the program in 4 years. Most ppl take 5. Is that what you guys have heard as well?</p>

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<p>Yea, adides. It depends if you want to get a Bachelor of Science in Engineering or if you want to get a Bachelor of Applied Sciences. The difference is the BSE is hardcore, while BAS is a little limited. BAS students take 4 years to graduate, BSE, 5. </p>

<p>i'm sure some BAS students take 5 years to graduate, too. I wanna graduate in four years but oh well.</p>

<p>seeker: i'm actually not sure. either mechanical engineering, bioengineering, environmental engineering or computer science. (lotta options, huh) u?</p>

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<p>i only have funding for a 4-year course, so i was intending to do the BAS. but i've heard of cases where people finished the BAS & BSE courses in 3 & 4 years respectively, so i assume it's actually possible to accelerate to quite a degree.</p>

<p>for the engineering side i'm looking more towards systems engineering, operations research or financial engineering. gonna try to make it less of traditional engineering and more applicable to what i hope to do later on.</p>

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<p>seeker - I am a financial engineering candidate as well. u applyin to MIT or UC-Berk? They have pretty good FE program reputation(at grad level)</p>

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<p>nah, i don't have the brains for MIT, and anyway i got into M&T on ED, so no choice there. will see about grad level, though i don't expect i'll have time for it since i'm already on the double-degree route...</p>

<p>i don't think FE is an undergrad specialisation at penn, unfortunately, but perhaps someone knows about this?</p>