<p>So, needless to say I am super excited about Penn. So, instead of doing my senior project I'm on upenn.edu looking at course requirements for the College and I honestly cannot make sense of them. Requirements weren't a huge issue for me either way when applying to Penn so I looked at them but didn't take the time to truly understand, can anyone help me out? </p>
<p>What I'm wondering is, what are the sectors vs. the foundations? How many classes in each of the sectors do you have to take? Maybe I'm just dumb and can't find the specific list but please if you can, help me out.</p>
<p>There are 7 sectors and 6 foundational approaches. The only one that can be fulfilled by AP credit or a placement exam in the language requirement. The writing requirement is fulfilled by taking a critical writing seminar, which everyone hates because it is very rigidly structured and can be quite boring if you don’t have a good topic. Foundational approaches can be filled by just about anything (PennIntouch, where you register tells you in a course description what requirements the course fulfills) if the course fulfills the requirement. For sectors you can only double count one major requirement. However, you can select classes that fill a sector and a foundational approach. For example, I’m a science person, so next semester I have chem, physics, math and then I happened to find two very interesting looking non-science classes. They both satisfy a sector and foundational approach, so these 2 classes satisfy 4 requirements.</p>