<p>Hey guys.
I received a letter in the mail recently informing me that I have been selected as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. Evidently, there are 100 scholars chosen from each college at Penn.
First of all, I was a recruited athlete and “borderline” applicant. How on earth did I get this?</p>
<p>Also, is it a big deal, or are they just trying to get me to come there?</p>
<p>Any info will help!</p>
<p>-H2O-</p>
<p>There have been other threads about this, and I'm pretty sure it's like an honors program at UPenn. I think you get to take honors classes and get priority selection for classes. Thats pretty impressive to get that,nice job</p>
<p>Do a search for bf scholars to find the other threads</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>what is the significance? Is it worth rethinking my college plans? (btw, i had planned on going somewhere else). It just kind of made me stop and think. Should I think more about it?</p>
<p>I'm not sure about getting priority for classes (i'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that I'm not sure). However, it is a very nice award to get.</p>
<p>They sent a letter to my college counselor about it because they knew I wanted to do a dual degree (being a BFS and dual degree is very hard if not impossible) so they wanted to give me the heads up on how difficult it was going to be and that they advise everyone not to do it if they still want to do the dual degree. So, I figured, I could always apply to be a JWS of a BFS depending on the dual degree.</p>
<p>But, congrats man!</p>
<p>It's a respected thing to get. You graduate cum laude. But again, choose where you want to go based on the school because at the level you're at right now you honestly can't go wrong.</p>
<p>Actually, i was told that dual degree (huntsman) and BFS and JWS are not hard to juggle. Most of the courses overlap.</p>
<p>Huntsman is not a dual degree. Huntsman is a joint degree.</p>
<p>On the BFS site it even says that students pursuing dual degrees should probably reconsider their plans.</p>
<p>my bad, joint or dual, same sh!t</p>
<p>These are in fact two separate statements.</p>
<p>I called the ARCH today. they said there is no priority scheduling but you get priority for BFS seminars. There is no housing priority. The classes count toward your general requirements. About 5% of accepted freshman are asked to be a BFS.</p>
<p>Is anyone else going to be at the info session for BFS on monday?</p>
<p>Yep, I'll be there. Who else?</p>