<p>Thanks chrisw!
My brothers girlfriend did tell me that the libraries are pretty amazing.</p>
<p>Not that this is a very nice Q but:</p>
<p>**What are the negative things that you experienced at Penn?</p>
<p>What I meant was, is it allowed? On the webpage, it only lists Math 104, Stat 101, or Stat 102 for the freshman semester. i was wondering whether or not I am truly limited to those options, or can take a different math class. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>hey guys! did most of you have an interview for penn? international or american students alike…
UK universities usually have interviews and these can really affect your application for the better or the worse…</p>
<p>@Curiousquaker, unless they’ve changed the application process for housing, I’m pretty sure you can only apply for two residential programs, and you currently have Harrison FreshEx as…8th or something? Or alternative program? I don’t really get it, but either way, I don’t think that works? Harrison needs to be your first (or second) choice. Also, I personally would actually recommend a 3 bedroom quad over a 1 bedroom double…but that’s just my personal preference. Also, while some people who lived in Harnwell as freshmen who I’ve talked to loved it, I haven’t actually met very many, and it would probably be the least social of your choices. Harrison is great, and at least for my floor this year, everyone hung out in the lounge a ton.
And as sunkist said, you’re over thinking it. Don’t worry too much!</p>
<p>Yes wikiman, it’s allowed. I’m pretty sure whatever you’re looking at is just guidelines.</p>
<p>@ scribbler91-</p>
<p>You can definitely list Harrison as your 8th-ish choice on the housing app. After the part that asks for your list of top res program/housing choices, there is a section that allows you to list an “alternative” res program, like Fresh Ex, without writing an essay for it.It seems odd that Fresh Ex would be on the list of “alternatives” being that the program has filled up so quickly in recent years, but it is nonetheless an option in that section. I guess the application must have changed in the part two years.</p>
<p>Also, I think this is what TheWikiMan was looking it:</p>
<p>[Wharton</a> Undergraduate | Flexible Curriculum](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/academic-excellence/flexible-curriculum.cfm]Wharton”>Flexible Curriculum - Undergraduate)</p>
<p>Is that the typical first semester schedule for a Wharton student, or just a random example…?</p>
<p>Yep thats, the page, from the looks of it, I though we were limited to three choices, but now that I think about it, it shouldn’t really be an issue for me to take a different math. I’ll just have to ask the adviser we get in the summer.</p>
<p>Oh, well maybe three years ago you could have gotten into Harrison by putting it as an alternative, but my year was the first they had to turn people away, and I think last year they had to reject at least 2 people for every 1 they accepted. I know the House Dean and I’m friends with the person in charge of the residential program (technically the Dean decides who they accept but she helps out) and they wouldn’t choose someone who didn’t put in the effort to show they want to live there, because it has become so competitive.</p>
<p>So basically, putting Harrison as an alternative is a waste of space.</p>
<p>And if you look at that, it says it’s just a sample curriculum. They put that out there so you’re not flailing around when deciding what classes to take, and because it makes sense to take some classes earlier on (like stat before you take finance, because it’s a prereq, and calc before bpub250). You’ll find, though, that nothing is actually set in stone and as long as you take all the classes you’re supposed to by the time you graduate, you’ll be fine. Like, stat is a prereq for finance 101, but I totally took it without stat. My advisor saw that I was signed up for and it was like “I can’t in good faith approve it because finance is hard blah blah” (and I had bad grades freshman year because I didn’t try) but she didn’t make me switch, and I ended up getting an A anyway. And I only took two Wharton classes last semester even though I really should have taken more.</p>
<p>The only thing you absolutely have to take freshman fall is mgmt 100, and if there’s actually some class that you want that interferes with it, they will change the section (like the advanced Japanese class I wanted to take was at the same time as my mgmt100, so they switched my section. And dual degrees with certain requirements often have to switch as well).</p>
<p>Is the David Pottruck Health and Fitness Center free for undergrads or do you have to pay for a membership?</p>
<p>you pay for it in your tuition (its a fee they attach) but you don’t have to pay per use</p>
<p>Thanks a lot sunkist and scribbler!!
I guess I was thinking a bit too hard.
Is it really that hard to get a single in the quad??
There are 181 singles in Fisher, 191 in Riepe and 160 in Ware. Thats 532 in total. So it shouldn’t be that bad. Maybe the legacy students and athletes hog them up real quick.
Also, is it true that Ware is mostly female dominated?? If yes, I sooo want to go there.</p>
<p>Scribbler- i put Fresh EX as an alternative because i wanted to be in the quad more than I wanted to be in Harrison. I guess that was dumb since its so popular.</p>
<p>Last question. I swear 
Do you pay extra to go and train in Queer pool or whatever its called. I won’t be on the team but I still wanna go and train there to stay fit. So do I pay extra or is it a part of the tuition fees??</p>
<p>Thanks you guys. This thread is soooo helpful.</p>
<p>Wow what a miracle thread. I really appreciate what you guys are doing!!</p>
<p>This is just one question spread out in three parts.
when can we start selecting courses??
As in when is the earliest possible time??
Is it when campus express gets mailed out or will we get an email??</p>
<p>Who comes up with this stuff??? Hahahaha.</p>
<p>I know it is easy to blame the competitive acceptance rate to Penn on legacies and athletes, but once we get here, the playing field is equal. When you’re applying for housing, there’s no box that say “I’m a legacy, so give me a single in the quad or else my dad will stop donating to your endowment.” The housing application is a completely random process, so it does not favor anyone. I have no idea why Ware would be female dominated, and I would be shocked if that was true.</p>
<p>Sorry, no idea what the queer pool is.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about course selection; at some other schools, you do it in stages (as in the seniors register, then the juniors, then the sophomores, then the freshmen). At Penn, there is “advanced registration” where you have a few weeks to enter your course selections into Penn in Touch. After those selections, everything closes, courses are assigned, and you find out which of your requests you did and did not get. It then becomes a “free for all” in which everyone can sign up for any course that is open. I believe all of that stuff happens in mid to late August. Don’t stress if you don’t get all of the classes you request; just go to the class you are interested in on the first day, talk to the professor, see how long the waitlist is, etc. They will usually have a good sense of whether or not a spot will open up. And most professors will usually be willing to make an exception and increase the class size, unless there is a strict reason why they can’t (e.g. it is a lab class and there isn’t enough lab equipment).</p>
<p>So if you are an undergrad at Penn, you can go to the David Pottruck Health and Fitness Center whenever your want without having to pay for a membership (since the person who answered this said that it is already included in the tuition… thats a bit confusing.)?</p>
<p>Yeah, when you look at your bill for the semester, first you will cry because of the exorbitantly high price. Then you will notice that it is broken down into a number of categories: tuition, room and board, meal plan, College of Arts and Sciences General fee (if you are in the college…I assume other schools have something similar), lab fees (if you are taking chem lab or similar courses), and recreation fee, and maybe other fees too. So the recreation fee is something that you have to pay, regardless of whether or not you ever want to go to the gym. I think it’s like $150 per semester or something.</p>
<p>Are the residential programs all Freshmen?</p>
<p>The “General Fee” of somewhere around $3,500 is something that really enables students to do a lot (think about it, that’s 35 million dollars when you account for ten thousand people paying it). It gives all full time undergraduates an unlimited membership to the gym (just swipe your PennCard and you’re in). It also pays for the SAC budget – every student group at Penn is treated like its own little entity; it needs a governing structure which includes a treasurer. Penn gives away a budget of a few million dollars to the hundreds of groups on campus, for which the treasurers of these groups are responsible. So, for example, if you want to start the… I dunno… the Penn Photography Club (I dunno if that exists, but whatever), once you get approved for SAC funding, you receive a budget and a debit card which allows you to purchase things for the group (of course, you must save your receipts and justify your purchases if you are ever audited by SAC). So you could buy cameras, film, etc. and not need your group’s members to provide their own things!</p>
<p>Performing arts groups get the most money from SAC, since SAC pays for costumes, performance spaces, union labor for said performance spaces, A/V equipment, etc. It really does work out well for people who want to get involved on campus!</p>
<p>In reference to post #133 by sunkist 7- Advance Registration, according to Wharton’s head of academic advising, Scott Romeika, will be approximately the last 2 weeks of June and first two weeks of July this year. Incoming freshmen will receive a packet in the mail in mid-June which will provide more details on registration. The packet will also include the name and contact information of your summer advisor, and Wharton students will receive their cohort and Management 100 assignments at that time. Incoming Whartonites must plan the rest of their schedule around their Mgmt 100 class.</p>
<p>@parentofpeople- Not all residential programs are exclusively freshman. Some, like the Freshman Experience in Harrison and Freshman Leadership at Penn in Hill, are freshman only and others, like Harrison Helps in Harrison and all of Rodin’s programs, are upperclassmen only. Quad programs are freshman dominated, but other residential programs (like the foreign language ones in Gregory) consist of students from various grades.</p>
<p>Hey Wartonite! Great thread so far.
I read your post about the Leadership in the Business World at Wharton and I was looking for a little more information on that. How selective are the admissions and what are they really looking for? I’m only a sophomore this year, so I definitely have time to prep, but I was just curious! I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Actually, FreshEx does have upperclassmen “mentors”…there are about 23 upperclassmen to 82 freshmen. Most are really active, and besides becoming friends with freshmen, they give you advice/help on classes, profs, social life, etc. So there are upperclassmen, but they are there to make the freshman experience better.</p>