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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Penn is a blend of a few different types of schools that are popular: Ivy prestige and top scholars, NYU-style urban setting and preprofessionalism, and flagship-style party/sports culture. Plus, it’s great at marketing itself and Philly is appealing these days. [/quote]

Penn is not at ALL the same setting as NYU. NYU is within center Manhattan with no circumscribed campus. Penn is west of the the Schuykill river, ie west and separate from center city. It has a real campus much of which cannot be seen unless you park and walk through it. Some areas are only open to students (the freshman Quad). Biopond is completely hidden from roads and is a wonderful nature escape. Penn is less urban than Columbia, which is far less urban than NYU.

Philly is wonderful but it is a 2+ mile walk to get from Penn into Philly for food, arts, shopping etc. Many Penn kids go into Philly less than once a semester. Others go every weekend. NYU is right in a busy part of Manhattan and Columbia is in a quieter part but still a closer walk to real city life: you cannot avoid NYC at these schools. Penn is urban-adjacent more like Harvard's campus or maybe Brown if Providence were a real city with full arts, culture, professional sports.

Penn has zero flagship-style sports culture!? Are you kidding? No one picks ivies for sports. There is more sports culture at LACs due to 40% of the undergrads being recruited. Ivies have relatively low percentages recruits and students do not attend sports much, at any ivy, compared to UVA, Tech, Duke, Northwestern. Penn does have more parties than some ivies but less than others.

Both of mine are/were Penn students, CAS and SEAS. It is amazing, but it is not at all what most of DCUM thinks it is. [/quote]

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