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University of Pennsylvania Visit Report by artsymed
Visit to University of Pennsylvania in June 2008 by artsymed (Student, HS Class of 2007)
(Member since October 27 2008 with 11 posts)
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UPenn is a great school... I was attracted to their statistic reading something like '45% of students get accepted to medical school each year... 85% of UPenn seniors get accepted to medical school each year...' (but without the 'qualified' word most colleges use basically saying only their seniors with 3.9s and perfect MCAT scores got in... although that's not to say UPenn's health program is so hard that they only have 7 seniors that actually graduate in the prehealth program a year ;p) Also, if you're interested in art as well look into PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.) IF you'd like to go to Penn but want an excellent fine arts class/BFA there is the coordinated Penn/PAFA BFA program (that which I'm applying to for this coming term! ^__^) which is a ridiculously well hidden studio arts school. No design stuff, no digital, not even dark room photography... strictly fine art with a curriculum based off of old master techniques, oil paintings, classic sculpture... they even still do bronze casts... the majority of the sculptures in philly (and a lot of famous american artists from the early seventeenth century!) are products of PAFA. If you're looking to be an artist rather than appeal to a corrupt industry looking to bureaucratically peddle your stereotypical design portfolio to corporate consumerism and the products of capitalism... then the Penn/PAFA studio programs is definitely for you... not one of the lame graphic design schools (unless that's what you're into of course... I'm not by any means against design, it's simply not for me as a career ;p I meddle in flash, photoshop and the likes now and again plus I own a Canon XTi and Nikon FA that I put to very good use!)