<p>The above question.</p>
<p>Nope. As it says in the welcome letter (I got one), only the top 125 or so get the opportunity.</p>
<p>I just got back from Penn Preview days and a kid asked a similar question; UPenn’s response was BFS is for kids who indicated they were highly interested in research or had done extensive research in the past</p>
<p>Well I got an invitation, and I didn’t indicate that, nor have I done extensive research in the past.</p>
<p>I’m in it. Never spoke about research and never conducted any.</p>
<p>What do you think of it, Necrophiliac?</p>
<p>it has helped me a bit. It gets me into all the neat classes I want to take and makes for an impressive line on my transcript. I suggest doing it since it’s basically no additional work.</p>
<p>The senior thesis could easily be not done and you don’t need the certificate because at that point you’ll have a job lined up and have taken all the cool courses. On the flip side, you can get incredible leverage for grad school if you finish the program.</p>
<p>As I said, the courses it gets you into are interesting, are taught by some of the best professors on campus and it looks darn good on your transcript. I say worth it.</p>
<p>Yeah, there are some really interesting BFS courses. I mean I’m only a freshman, but my BFS seminar last semester was definitely the best course I’ve taken so far. My friend isn’t BFS, but she’s taking a BFS seminar with a really popular professor and she says it’s incredible.</p>
<p>Also, the people I’ve met in JWS/BFS are generally pretty cool. Less of a competitive edge, more chill in general. They have BFS teas where professors speak and stuff, but I haven’t gone.</p>
<p>I have. They tend to coincide with my classes but the one time I went I had a blast - learned that global warming is not man-made :P</p>