<p>w/e i started over again, this time, i'm making it more personally oriented.</p>
<p>there was this short answer question in UPenn app that went like..</p>
<p>which UPenn professor would you want to study with/conduct research with and why?</p>
<p>HOW THE ---- ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS?...
i mean yea, some ppl who visited the campus or participated in programs thingis would know.... but not me! I don't know any Penn professors... </p>
<p>should I lie? or just tell them honestly that I don't know...</p>
<p>that is my question.</p>
<p>I went to the website and found a professor that I might like to work with based on the research and things they've done or are doing and I talked about that. I don't think you have to say much but I don't think they'd like if you said that you didn't know.</p>
<p>My wasn't artistic at all. It was honest I guess; I just told them how much I liked the campus when I visited and why I was interested in bussiness.... here's the opening PP of mine just to show you how un-graceful of an essay it was (and it worked!):</p>
<p>Growing up in the South has been amazing, but I knew that I wanted to experience a different part of the country during college. I want to be challenged both intellectually and socially; I want to interact with an entirely new culture and to meet new people. I want to spend the next four years, as I have the last four, with people who realize the important need for a balance of both the social and academic aspects of their present and future lives. Many colleges met my requirements, but the University of Pennsylvania surpasses them.</p>
<p>happyggal : go read up on penn professors. If you are really desperate, google or yahoo them, then read up on them. Subsequently pick the one you find most interesting and write 3 lines about them. I wrote about Dr. Lawrence Klein (a nobel laurette).</p>
<p>Don't tell them you don't know any profs in penn and then leave the question unanswered. I mean, think about it, they can't expect EVERYONE to know a penn professor.</p>
<p>i think the question also ask why you will be a good fit at penn! my guess is that when the admission officer reads your application, they pay attention to your Why Penn essay and determine what kind of person you will be at penn. there are wayy many qualified candidate, it comes down to who will contribute more to the campus. If you need a read, im happy to help you out. my why penn is a bit personal because i spent a summer at penn...i've also heard from CC that he wrote a proposal to ask penn to marry him(i really want to read that essay)!</p>
<p>My Penn essay is amazing. I was creative and you can be too! I had a lot to say also: 1100 words. And there was NO flattery of the school whatsoever or generic stuff.</p>
<p>1100, that sounds a bit too long- 1 page?</p>
<p>bump for this essay..</p>
<p>anyone heard of Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER) or CARESS? i hope not so i sound like a genius.</p>
<p>I like to think my "why penn" essay is sexy</p>
<p>in my why penn essay (611 words), i had a love affair with Penn, which i confessed to a priest</p>
<p>I made mine very creative, very distinct...and I wrote my essay 8 hours before the deadline, and it turned out extreeeeemely well. Nothing should stop you from thinking outside the box. And yeah, it WAS long. 751 words.</p>
<p>you don't need to be creative</p>
<p>Mine wasn't creative at all. It did have a good beginning and ending, as well as some interesting anecdotes from my times on campus, but mostly it was able to show that I had done my homework about Penn and could picture myself there. I talked about what Penn had to offer me and vice versa.</p>
<p>my format was rather unconventional/creative but I did hit on a lot of points on specific programs, what made Penn different, campus traditions, social work opportunities. Not as mushy as my Duke one though.</p>
<p>I don't think necessarily that you have to be creative; just have a good reason, and by that I mean show how Penn fits you via programs and classes, etc. Everyone and their mother's essays will be "Penn's academic's are top notch." Basically, this essay is used most likely to parse the "good-match" applicants for Penn from the people who are applying for no clear reason or just because Penn = Ivy.</p>
<p>There's one major point in this essay...Penn wants to see that the essay pertains only to PENN...and they want to see that it was not a Brown, NU or any other school's essay with the name changed. It's gotta be truly for and only Penn as I see it. I emphasised through an example that I find myself being considered as a PERSON more than a number - a percentage or something on a 200-800 scale. Also talked about the research opportunities for undergrads and I named a few. Mentioned the social life and non-academic activities that will make a PERSON and not a number. I had a creative thing that ran through my essay, but which I wont tell ;).</p>
<p>dunno how it will play down but I wrote it sincerely. I guess thats what counts ultimately.</p>
<p>Aye, the same with me, callthecop2. I took the same route, but it wasn't may essay that was "unique," but rather my response and reason going to Penn!</p>
<p>I actually gave an example of mine...I talked about how I crammed 2 weeks straight, the whole of SAT world history (I hadnt taken history since 9th grade) and got 760, and I was not unhappy with the bad score, but with the way I approached it - out of NECESSITY of a good score, and not out of my love for the subject. Its the truth, and I used this as my intro.</p>
<p>Do you wanna exchange essays for a read newyorker?</p>