<p>AH!
So apparently for the Common App UPenn's supplement, there's a short-answer question asking to name a professor that you may be interesting in working with/conducting research with...</p>
<p>i personally never visited the school ( and dont think i would be a ble to either) and so i don't know any professors, really (unless i start some sort of e-mail communications)...</p>
<p>How should i go about with this?</p>
<p>Research information about a professor who teaches courses for your major. Find out the research that they are currently involved in; find out their current initiatives; etc.</p>
<p>I just went to the department that I put under my prospective major and looked at a few of the faculty members. Because I did Chemistry, I just read a little of each person's research and wrote about the dude whose research I understood the most of. You really don't have to stress an essay that is so short.</p>
<p>How did you guys do research? I went on the Penn site, but couldn’t find info on teachers, much less their backgrounds</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.college.upenn.edu/majors/depts.php[/url]”>http://www.college.upenn.edu/majors/depts.php</a></p>
<p>from there you can go to a particular department and view the faculty list (applies mainly to CAS)</p>
<p>does anyone know where the list of biochemistry professors are on the site? i went to the biochemistry department page but could not find a list of the faculty.</p>
<p>Look under the chemistry professors. I put bchem down too as my major but chose some random chem professor to write about.</p>
<p>If you are just writing down the publications by a certain professor, then won’t admins realize that it is just bs and that you really have no idea what is going on?</p>
<p>If admins realize that it’s bs and you really have no idea what is going on, then isn’t that a good thing?</p>
<p>Of course it’s BS - very few applicants will have meaningful contact with a professor before coming here. They want you to think at least a little about what your proposed major and, more important, being at Penn, is all about. </p>
<p>Finding the appropriate web page and tracking down the research interests of a couple professors is just one of the little tests that help identify the people really interested in coming to Penn.</p>
<p>^^^ Interesting I never thought of it that way before.</p>