Penn Admissions Blog

If you’re trying to find the life and blood of Penn’s campus, look no further than Locust Walk. This is not only the central artery on campus for getting where you need to go, but it’s also ...

For many, the thought of college academia is surrounded with images of stunning libraries, auditorium sized lecture halls, and professors with years of experience teaching the next generation of m...

During my first year at Penn, I had hundreds of conversations that went like this: “Where are you living?” “In the Quad.” “Where in the Quad?” “In Ware.” �...

As a sophomore in the College, it’s known that I don’t have to declare my major until next semester. But with minors, there’s much more flexibility in that I can declare a minor my junior or...

It is, by now, a cliche to say that it’s difficult to believe how far I’ve come since filling out my Penn Application. But it’s true -- December of 2016 feels like just a few months ago, des...

I am now halfway through my junior year at Penn, and I still find myself mind-boggled that I made it here -- to this place more than 8,000 miles away from my home in Johannesburg, and lightyears a...