Hey guys, greetings from Beijing!
I’m right now a 11th grader from Beijing, China and am planning to attend college in the states. Like half a year ago I discovered the DMD (digital media design) major of UPenn and love it so much.
Cuz personally I do robotics and some UI design for engineering related, but at the same time also do graphic design at school (I am the leader of the school graphic design club, I would love to have a major under engineering but involves some artistic elemenets. And DMD of UPenn fits me so much. I do a lot of other things as well, but these are generally the major ones.
I haven’t attended much competitions apart from FIRST Robotics Competition (only that this one is group work), but got a 1500 and 1490 SAT respectively, and am taking the May one this Saturday as my last, hopefully it will be higher than the first. I also have double 800 on maths 2 and physics, and probably will take a chemistry this fall before application.
For schoolwork, I take IB diploma: Chinese SL, English HL, French ab SL, Physics HL, Maths HL and Economics SL. All of these scores are 7 right now (the highes rank) and I believe right now I am in the top 10% of my peers.
My key concerns are related to the courses. Because DMD is under CS, while I took neither CS nor art (while my school offers them), how can I or will I ever make up to these? The portfolio would not be a problem for me. But another thing is that even though my high school is among the top ones in China, UPenn seem to not favor it and has not been admitting much students for a long time.
This summer I will be attending the computer graphics summer program that related to this field in Penn, and the professor there would also be one of the staff of DMD undergrad, so this might be a bonus if I do well there.
So, that’s basically all about me, and I would really appreciate it if anyone could tell me about my chances and if there’s anything more I can do~ OR if there are any more info about UPenn DMD’s admission (I know there is not much online ), please do share it!
Thanks 