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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Columbia and UPenn tend to rank higher in most rankings and have [b]stronger departments[/b], which is why your GC might be saying that. But does this mean they are better (what does that even mean?) or more prestigious colleges? Hardly. 
The ONLY objective difference in prestige is between H vs the rest and HYP vs non-HYP. Parsing any further differences among the lower ivies is just a desperate attempt by certain insecure boosters to elevate their school.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Penn A&S (and Penn in general) has [b]stronger departments[/b] and more renowned faculty than Brown and Dartmouth. [/quote]

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Penn A&S (and Penn in general) has [b]stronger departments[/b] and more renowned faculty than Brown and Dartmouth. [/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]In any case, Penn performs better in practically every ranking out there, it has overall stronger departments, more renowned faculty, stronger research output, higher RD yield rate, and according to the CDS documents Penn admits have a bit higher SATs/ACTs and GPAs/ranks than Brown and Dartmouth admits. [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Hardly. Penn has much [b]stronger departments[/b] than Brown and Dartmouth even outside of Wharton. I agree about lay prestige though, all non-HYP ivies are similar. [/quote]

Hey, Penn "stronger departments" person, please give it a rest. I've worked in higher ed for almost 20 years, and "stronger departments" is a meaningless designation that I have literally never heard anyone in academe ever utter at any point. One of the non-Penn schools in this thread has the country's top-ranked programs in Comparative Literature and Brazilian Studies. So for kids interested in those areas, Penn does not have "stronger departments." The same is true for other schools in other fields.

We get it. You love Penn. Also, "Brown is the hottest university in the country" person, we get it - you love trolling people by getting them worked up about Brown.

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NP. Penn is still higher ranked [b]in the public eye,[/b] and it’s on more US and international rankings, than Brown or Dartmouth. Whatever you think of deoaetmentsnon a case-by-case basis, these rankings generally go for broader academic gestalt.  I can’t believe we’re still discussing this. [/quote]

News flash for the Penn booster.... there is no one "public eye".    And lets be honest here, most of the public doesn't know the difference between UPenn and Penn State.   [/quote]

Shall we call you the Penn Basher? Or are you the “Brown is so hot” booster or a Dartmouth booster? You seem fairly blinkered yourself.[/quote]

I have degrees from HYP so no dog in this fight, just calling it the way I see it.  So where did you get your graduate/law/medical degree Penn Booster? [/quote]

A different Ivy. I’m just another observer who thinks your monomaniacal Penn hate has cost you all credibility here.[/quote]

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