The University of Pennsylvania (also called UPenn and Penn) has been teaching engineering since the mid-1800s. The Philadelphia-based Ivy League offers an impressive list of engineering majors through its School of Engineering & Applied Science. While Penn provides a couple of specialized cross-school programs (including VIPER and Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology), the vast majority of hopeful UPenn engineers apply directly to the Engineering school. UPenn doesn’t release separate acceptance rates for its four undergraduate schools. However, Engineering is likely on the harder side of the spectrum given the popularity of its majors. Last year, UPenn’s overall acceptance rate was This is a very competitive rate. If you hope to become a Quaker, you need to be a top student. If you don’t know where to start, don’t worry, we have a couple of steps you need to take.