<p>Hi!</p>
<p>How did some of you approach picking a Penn professor that you’d like to study with? It’s been confusing me for a while…</p>
<p>If you look on the website they have departments that you can find professors of. Otherwise, what I did was I got the Penn courses of study book and looked up every single professor in the bio department online and found one I was interested in.</p>
<p>i made up a name</p>
<p>^LOL, you are defenitely in</p>
<p>if that's serious, then lmao</p>
<p>my dad is a professor so i put him down</p>
<p>^^^ r u serious? ur dad? i dont think that was the smartest idea... i mean you could have ventured outside of your family...wouldnt have been too hard....idk it just seems like an easy way out of the question. im guessin they know ur dads a professor...why not mix it up with someone else?</p>
<p>I spoke to one of the admissions people about this. They said that it's funny how every year when they give this question, a vast majority of the people applying happen to pick whomever is on the website front page at the moment. Moral of the story: If you actually want to get in, show some interest. I browsed through the resumes of EVERY professor on the Wharton faculty page and found one that was definitely very different from the rest and worked in a field that I was interested in.</p>
<p>Wharton professors don't do research, they just string together catch words for grant proposals.</p>
<p>Never said I wanted to research with them, just learn from them.</p>
<p>The particular person I picked happened to work in Entertainment Business.</p>
<p>the guy i picked appeared on stephen a smith's quite frankly and talked abt sports and business so i just went from there. yea i think atleast a lil research would be appreciated</p>
<p>is assistant professor acceptable? or does it have to be a professor?</p>
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<p>what kind of stuff qualifies as business research? is it mostly for big corporations?</p>
<p>I searched my passion/probable major, creative writing, on Google and happened upon an article about a certain English professor and the Kelly Writers' House. Some more research gave me a better idea about how he runs his classes, which I found was a teaching style I'd be really interested in, so I just got to writing.</p>
<p>In short, I'd suggest choosing a professor that you'd likely have in your course of study, or one in the department/program in which you'd like to study, if not major, in.</p>
<p>i'm sorry to ask again, but is assistant professor acceptable?</p>