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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just mildly curious, what makes Penn "better" than Dartmouth or Brown? Penn has an impressive range of graduate and professional schools but for undergraduates what's the benefit over the other Ivies?

Other than Wharton I've always found the undergraduate college to be good but not particularly impressive or distinctive relative to the other Ivies. Penn and Cornell seemed more similar to each other than the other Ivies due to their size and large graduate/professional presence. [/quote]

Penn has changed tremendously under Amy Gutman's leadership. Here are just some highlights:

In addition to those noted above, selected highlights of President Gutmann’s tenure at Penn include:
Undergraduate applications have grown from 18,282 to nearly 39,000 for the Class of 2020.
The undergraduate financial aid budget has grown by 155% since FY2005, from $84 million to $214 million.  The average grant for undergraduate students receiving aid in FY2017 is $45,368.
The creation of 200 new endowed professorships, and the recruiting of 17 Penn Integrates Knowledge Professors and 10 Presidential Professors.
Philanthropy of more than $5 billion for Penn, including $4.3 billion through the Making History Campaign, the University’s largest-ever capital campaign.
Penn’s endowment has grown from $4 billion to $10.7 billion.
Creation of a $100 million Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence, resulting in an 18% increase in female faculty and 43% increase in minority faculty.
Creation of the President’s Engagement Prizes and President’s Innovation Prize, the largest student innovation prizes in the country.
Penn Connects campus plan resulting in a $2.7 billion investment creating 5 million square feet of new or renovated space, with plans for $2 billion additional investment in 1.8 million square feet of space.
Creation of Penn Park, a 24-acre urban oasis linking Penn to Center City Philadelphia.
Signature architectural buildings, such as the Singh Center for Nanotechnology, the New College House, Perry World House, Golkin Hall, Weiss Pavilion, and the Stephen A. Levin Building for Neural and Behavioral Sciences.
A 29% increase in sponsored research to nearly $1 billion annually, despite flat federal support.
Penn Medicine has grown to include major new facilities (Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Roberts Proton Center, Smilow Translational Research Center), Chester County Hospital and Lancaster General Hospital, and new physician offices and outpatient facilities across Philadelphia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey."

The full article can be read here:

https://news.upenn.edu/news/university-pennsylvania-trustees-extend-president-amy-gutmann-s-contract-2022
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