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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Decades ago, Penn was a bottom feeder Ivy in a post apocalyptic part of Philly.  Things have changed.  A spruced up area and much better rankings.[/quote]

Huh, decades ago, I seriously considered turning down Harvard for Wharton (and, at the time, my Dad was solidly pro-Wharton, judging from people he knew professionally from both schools). Flash forward to today and my kid dismisses Penn as a party school, based on which kids go there from DC's HS.  What's up with that?  Is it just Wharton vs. Penn?  (In my case, Harvard won because I wasn't sure I'd end up in business.) Or is it that the spruced-up area makes it a more appealing party school for upper middle class private school kids?  Or just people making half-assed judgments based on limited information?

Personally, I think of Penn as a very good school -- but that's based on faculty in my humanities field, which has no relevance to what DC would be studying (sciences, most likely bio). College counselor didn't urge DC to look at Penn, but did suggest Columbia.[/quote]

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