<p>I found some awesome pictures of Penn buildings on this website, under the “photo gallery section”</p>
<p>but I’ve never seen some of these buildings, even when I visited the campus.
esp. the first picture, with the awesome tower-looking thing. Where is this building?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ivyleaguesuccess.com%5B/url%5D”>www.ivyleaguesuccess.com</a></p>
<p>btw, this is a pretty cool, straightforward site with good admissions info and stats</p>
<p>If I was looking at the same tower as you, it is in the Quad.</p>
<p>that tower is memorial tower, in quad, right at upper quad gate.</p>
<p>pic locations:</p>
<p>first two pics are in quad
third is wynn commons / college hall
fourth is john morgan building in the med school
fifth is fisher fine arts library
sixth is quad again
seventh is college green, looking towards college hall
eighth is artist’s rendition of the perelman center for advanced medicine</p>
<p>pererlman center’s gonna be HUGE</p>
<p>Gaawwwd I want to go to Penn so bad. Damn you, 10% acceptance rate!!!</p>
<p>Is this sad?: I just typed a lengthy explanation about the (mostly irrational) reasons I want to go to Penn, and then realized there is a WHY PENN essay, and I shouldn’t give my ideas away. Am I paranoid or what?? Geez.</p>
<p>But considering I am applying to only 6 schools, three of which have approx 10% admit rate, I’m not quite at the forefront of all the competition!!!</p>
<p>umm penns acceptance rate was like 16% this year…</p>
<p>Sounds like the above poster is thinking Wharton
Wasn’t the acceptance rate 18%?</p>
<p>16% acceptance rate overall. Wharton’s acceptance rate was significantly lower (some posters here have said that they heard 9% at admitted-student programs on-campus in April).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ivyleaguesuccess.com/undergraduate_schools.html[/url]”>http://www.ivyleaguesuccess.com/undergraduate_schools.html</a></p>
<p>well the website says 18%</p>
<p>If we’re going to segregate schools (which is a bad idea, both from a philosophical standpoint as well as a strategic one for university development), one should also count SAS as a separate entity as its acceptance rate is below that of SEAS.</p>
<p>(not to say SEAS is easier to get into than SAS…which only goes to underscore the absurdity of looking solely at acceptance rates to determine the awesome-ness of a school)</p>
<p>I’m talking about WHARTON, duhhhhhhhhhh. They accept 500/5000 every year, more or less, so their admit rate hovers around 10%. </p>
<p>And 18% or 16% overall, who cares - that’s splitting hairs. And unfortunately, I’m only interested in the lowest admit rate, for the most selective school - since I’m applying to Wharton and not CAS.</p>
<p>@ Johnny K: There’s no way I’m applying to Wharton for the perceived prestige equated with such high selectivity. I wish it weren’t the case. I would honestly be applying to CAS if it weren’t for the geniuses who made Wharton concentrations so perfectly tailored to my interests.</p>
<p>
That number is based on last year’s admit rate of 17.7% for the Class of 2010. For the Class of 2011, the preliminary overall admit rate was 15.9%:</p>
<p><a href=“ivysuccess.com is for sale”>ivysuccess.com is for sale;
<p>I’m excited. Penn seems to be increasing in selectivity and prestige :)</p>
<p>^ Per a Philadelphia Inquirer article about which I started another thread, the number of visits by prospective students has increased this summer by 25%.</p>
<p>Where’s that article/thread</p>
<p>this one</p>
<p><a href=“Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey News”>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey News;
<p>There is a Louis Kahn building – the Richards Medical Center.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Richards_Medical_Center.html[/url]”>http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Richards_Medical_Center.html</a></p>
<p>hill college house is an eero saarinen design…</p>
<p>but both richards and hill are in need of renovations!</p>