<p>So what was it?</p>
<p>Could you elaborate? If you mean the application requirements, then I would check out [Penn</a> Admissions: International Applicants](<a href=“http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/international.php]Penn”>http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/international.php)</p>
<p>you must have taken AP calculus / be taking AP calculus or your application won’t be read.</p>
<p>^^ not true btw.</p>
<p>that statement comes from 2nd source admissions director. It’s an inside thing but it is fact. I challenge you to disprove me.</p>
<p>actually I have two people (both Huntsman admittees) that I can disprove you with, necrophiliac.
So, math at my school is weird. We go from 110, 120, 130 (algebra 1) to 410, 420, 430, 440, 450 (calculus). Each number is a trimester, and people enter the school at all levels. ANYWAY, 410 is technically precal, and through 430 is AB calclus–through 450 is BC calculus (you can’t just skip 420 and 430, you have to go through the whole sequence because math here is taught weird). Anyway, two people I know who got into Huntsman–one last year, one this year–only went through 420 (they quit after that in their senior fall) which does not complete AB calculus. You NEED the next term to have done AB calc.</p>
<p>Then again, my school’s special, so who knows…maybe for most schools you DO need AB calc. but it’s not a fact, as you can see from my above paragraph.</p>
<p>they got in for being able to navigate your school’s policies. But with humor aside, the usual progression is algebra –> [Geometry/Algebra 2] –> Precalc –> Calc (whichever). Wharton demands you finish up high school with calc under your belt.</p>
<p>and especially for huntsman, if your application appeals to the specific committee of people judging for acceptance to the program (which I hear depends significantly on the head advisor, inge), you are pretty much in the program, regardless of whether you would have made it into wharton alone.</p>