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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

Less prestigious:
Yale, Columbia, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern

Afterwards:
No prestige

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Penn does not belong in that top group.  Not even Wharton.  Yale has far more prestige.[/quote]

30 years ago you would have been correct.  Now Penn is in the top group.[/quote]

Penn is on the rise with over 72,000 apps this year. Yale apps went down.[/quote]
Because every. single. male. wants to be a business bro without particularly caring about the specific job title. And there is no better baldly unapologetically pre-professional place to do that in 2025 than Penn.

Doesn’t even have to be Wharton.  Q: Son, what do you think you want to do when you grow up? 17-19 yr old male A: Make bank. [/quote]

No. The deans have said for the past 4 cycles that Penn Engineering is the hardest school, not wharton, with the most recent acceptance rate around 2.5% and prior to that 3 years of 3-3.5% acceptance rate for Seas. The figure has been quoted many times by faculty at parent events over our 4 yrs and again around grad week. Female applicants to engineering at the top privates including penn is the group that has skyrocketed the past few years, with close to 40% of applicants up from 30% 6-7 years ago. Female engineers prefer the liberal arts options that penn engineering  and most of the ivies/  t15 provide. Wharton still gets a lot of apps but it has a higher acceptance rate. And, females are rapidly increased there too. [/quote]

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