<p>The essay about who you would like to study with and why....</p>
<p>Anybody care to give me some advice or a starting point perhaps?</p>
<p>I don't really know where to go with this, luckily, its pretty short.</p>
<p>this is a little way of weeding out who really wants penn and can do the research.</p>
<p>but really, how many of the applicants have met any of the professors? maybe a few hundred that went to a summer program or met some on a campus tour. it's not that big of a deal, research a professor that might be interesting and give some good reasons, and put the response together well. penn knows that you probably did not meet a professor, they just want to see what you'd be interested in doing at penn and why.</p>
<p>On the Penn online app, this response is limited to 300 characters NOT words. So right now, my response is 3 sentences long and 298 characters. Does anyone else think this is a ridiculously small limit?</p>
<p>That's what I have been thinking for entire month!
The Common Application provides 1,000 characters, which is about a long paragraph, but Penn Application only gives you 300 characters, which is about one (very) long sentence! That's absurd.</p>
<p>i agree.....but if that's all they allow for on the Penn app, then just go with it. i know people who have already submitted the Penn app, so they can't change anything now. Mine is 2 sentences by the way.</p>
<p>If im submitting via common app, is it ok if i take the 1000 character limit (im talking about the what i do for fun question)? Is the "fun" prompt also 300 character limit?</p>