Majors at UPenn

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<p>Does anyone know any obscure majors at Upenn for undergraduate? or a list of acceptance rates for different departments at upenn, along with possibly anything that could integrate art and technology???</p>

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<p>Penn accepts students by school, not major. The schools that accept undergraduates are Arts & Sciences (the biggest, basically most of what any other Ivy offers), Wharton (business and finance), Engineering & Applied Science (engineering, architecture, etc.), and Nursing. I think Nursing and Engineering have the highest acceptance rates – but that’s because they don’t really draw applications from people who don’t know what they want to do; admission is very competitive among the self-selected applicants. Wharton has an ultra-low acceptance rate because it’s really, really popular these days as the clear #1 undergraduate business program in, well, the world. Arts & Sciences is sort of normal impossible-to-get-into Ivy.</p>

<p>Prospective freshmen can apply to some formal joint degree programs between Wharton and SAS or SEAS, but they are really hard to get accepted to. </p>

<p>Except for those joint degree programs, officially no one cares what major you might choose within a particular school when you apply. Unofficially they probably try to be certain to admit a class with balanced interests to each school, so Arts & Sciences won’t be 50% economics majors and 50% pre-meds, and SEAS won’t be all computer science people. But you are not applying to be a Classics major, or a Sociology major, or a Mechanical Engineering major.</p>

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<p>Most of what JHS said is correct, I would however make one addition. There is a special major within the engineering school called Digital Media Design. It’s focused on computer graphics and animation.
[CG@Penn</a> | DMD Program](<a href=“CG@Penn | DMD Program”>CG@Penn | DMD Program)
I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a separate essay on the common app, but it is recommended that you submit a portfolio. (see the admissions guide for details)</p>

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<p>Maybe I’m wrong, but I think you don’t apply to the Digital Media Design program as part of your basic application to Penn/SEAS. You can only apply for permission to major in DMD if you are already a student there.</p>

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<p>^ Actually, you DO apply for admission to the Digital Media Design program as part of your application to Penn (see pages 1, 4, and 6):</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/images/uploads/docs/PennSupplement_2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/images/uploads/docs/PennSupplement_2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You may also be able to apply for the major once you’re already a Penn undergrad, but I don’t have any info on that.</p>