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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These threads are silly but modestly entertaining because Penn grads invariably take them at face value and spend serious time trying to make the case it should be bumped up a notch.  [/quote]

No. Not a Penn grad. Not even close. Just notice the silly statements such as ' separate Wharton and Penn is this or that'. You can't separate them . Wharton is a part of Penn. And with that said the rest of Penn in great. I believe objectively top 10 somewhere 6-10. Which actually does seem like the consensus.[/quote]

Not really the consensus. In this thread you see most people having a tier of Columbia/Caltech or Columbia/Caltech/Chicago with good reason. As you mentioned, Penn has a good med, nursing, and public health program, but that's like saying Penn is good at finance, management, and business administration; of course all three are gonna be good because they are interconnected fields.

Wharton is elite but it's not even the top business school, bested by both Harvard and Stanford. I agree that separating Wharton from Penn is foolish. It's like a Princeton SPIA grad (previously called woody woo) separating it from Princeton, except there would be no benefits as the prestige difference between saying Princeton and woody woo is marginal unlike Penn and Wharton.

Chicago excels in the social sciences and some STEM fields, Columbia is elite in humanities, social sciences, and pretty solid at STEM. Penn doesn't have this broad level of success like HYPS, Chicago, and Columbia across the arts and sciences. This is Penn's weakest area by far, which is why many are tempted to separate it from Wharton.

It's still a top 10 for sure though.[/quote]

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