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Ethnic breakdown of enrollment Ethnic enrollment, fall 2018 Number (percentage) of undergraduates African American 715 (7.1%) Native American 12 (0.1%) Asian American and Pacific Islander 2,084 (20.7%) Hispanic and Latino American 1,044 (10.4%) White 4,278 (42.6%) International 1,261 (12.6%) Two or more races, non-Hispanic 460 (4.6%) Unknown 179 (1.8%) Total 10,033 (100%) Demographics edit Of those accepted for admission to the undergraduate Class of 2018, 52 percent are Asian, Hispanic, African-American or Native American. In addition, 53% of current students are women. Twelve percent of the undergraduate Class of 2018 were international students. The composition of international students accepted in the Class of 2018 is: 43% from Asia; 15% from Africa and the Middle East; 20% from Europe; 15% from Canada and Mexico; 5% from the Caribbean, Central America and South America; 3% from Australia and the Pacific Islands. The acceptance rate for international ...

Penn's sports teams are nicknamed the Quakers, but the teams are often also referred to as The Red & Blue. The athletes participate in the Ivy League and Division I (Division I FCS for football) in the NCAA. In recent decades, they often have been league champions in football (14 times from 1982 to 2010) and basketball (22 times from 1970 to 2006). The first athletic team at Penn was its cricket team. Rowing edit Rowing at Penn dates back to at least 1854 with the founding of the University Barge Club. The university currently hosts both heavyweight and lightweight men's teams and an open weight women's team, all of which compete as part of the Eastern Sprints League. Penn Rowing has produced a long list of famous coaches and Olympians, including Susan Francia, John B. Kelly Jr., Joe Burk, Rusty Callow, Harry Parker and Ted Nash. Also, the 1955 men's heavyweight crew is one of only four American university crews to win the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Reg...

Francis Hopkinson, signed the Declaration of Independence and designed the first official American flag. George Clymer, Founding Father; early advocate for complete independence from Britain James Wilson, Founding Father; one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States Benjamin Rush, Founding Father of the United States; surgeon general of the Continental Army William Henry Harrison, 9th president of the United States Doc Holliday, famed gunslinger, attended the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. Martha Hughes Cannon, first female state senator elected in the United States William Wrigley, Jr., founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company American poet and critic Ezra Pound, a major figure in the early modernist movement, studied at the college. Physician and poet William Carlos Williams graduated from Penn's School of Medicine Noam Chomsky studied phi...

Francis Hopkinson, signed the Declaration of Independence and designed the first official American flag. George Clymer, Founding Father; early advocate for complete independence from Britain James Wilson, Founding Father; one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States Benjamin Rush, Founding Father of the United States; surgeon general of the Continental Army William Henry Harrison, 9th president of the United States Doc Holliday, famed gunslinger, attended the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. Martha Hughes Cannon, first female state senator elected in the United States William Wrigley, Jr., founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company American poet and critic Ezra Pound, a major figure in the early modernist movement, studied at the college. Physician and poet William Carlos Williams graduated from Penn's School of Medicine Noam Chomsky studied phi...