penn is uber striverish

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

No. It is not true. PP is trying to get off the WL or discourage applicants for next year. Penn is quite collaborative

LOL Penn absolutely does not have the reputation for being collaborative. I am a Penn alum and my nephew just graduated last year.

DC is there and has found it more collaborative than the friends attending a few other ivy/elites. Oftentimes "cut throat" accusations are from those scoring well below the mean who do not want to go to class, put in the work in on group psets and spend time studying. No one is sabotaging anyone. My ivy was much more cut throat than Penn.

wow and just like that you proved PP's point. keep doing you, paris gellar. it seems like you only think it's collaborative because your school was more toxic and so were your DC's friend group. but that doesn't mean that penn doesn't attract judgmental, competitive people like you and/or your child.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

The pp isn’t talking about Asian students. Penn’s “reputation” a long time ago was because it took students from another minority group less represented at some other ivies.

I presume you mean Jewish? It is great they did not discriminate. More recently, they did not discriminate against asians to the degree other ivies did.

Columbia is a wide open door to Asians. I was on campus recently - you would think you were at Tsinghua or something.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

The pp isn’t talking about Asian students. Penn’s “reputation” a long time ago was because it took students from another minority group less represented at some other ivies.

I presume you mean Jewish? It is great they did not discriminate. More recently, they did not discriminate against asians to the degree other ivies did.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

No. It is not true. PP is trying to get off the WL or discourage applicants for next year. Penn is quite collaborative

LOL Penn absolutely does not have the reputation for being collaborative. I am a Penn alum and my nephew just graduated last year.

DC is there and has found it more collaborative than the friends attending a few other ivy/elites. Oftentimes "cut throat" accusations are from those scoring well below the mean who do not want to go to class, put in the work in on group psets and spend time studying. No one is sabotaging anyone. My ivy was much more cut throat than Penn.

We attended yesterday. I thought it was a poorly organized event compared to two other admitted students events that I have seen. Just poorly organized, completely uninteresting. Quite disappointing actually. I did not pay much attention to other parents, they seemed OK.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

What has this got to do with Asian students? Did you ever consider that PP was talking about obnoxious clouty white folks?

It was a separate comment I was replying to about the number of Asian students. Not related to perceived parental pushiness.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

No. It is not true. PP is trying to get off the WL or discourage applicants for next year. Penn is quite collaborative

LOL Penn absolutely does not have the reputation for being collaborative. I am a Penn alum and my nephew just graduated last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

What has this got to do with Asian students? Did you ever consider that PP was talking about obnoxious clouty white folks?

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to hear this. At the admitted student day we attended (for another Ivy) swag was given to the students at registration. Not to parents

At Quaker Days registration the student checks in and gets the swag. There was some minor "swag" at tables on locust throughout the day, some of which was PennParents gear, ie for the parents. We did not see parents taking the real swag at check-in. In reading these posts I think many were not at Quaker Days or are grossly exaggerating a few eager parents. DCUM has a weird culture of hyperbole and blatant lies.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

The pp isn’t talking about Asian students. Penn’s “reputation” a long time ago was because it took students from another minority group less represented at some other ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

No. It is not true. PP is trying to get off the WL or discourage applicants for next year. Penn is quite collaborative

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we were there and thought it was terrific and well organized. It helped confirm that it would be a great fit for our child. Everyone we met, from the administrators to the other admitted students, were lovely. And the college students we saw and spoke with all seemed happy and engaged.

I spent many years at Penn as a student it was fantastic! Philadelphia is lots of fun!

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Anonymous wrote:Someone wants to get off the Penn waitlist.

penn is famous for this culture tho ...

More than other schools? I hadn’t heard that. In terms of the number of Asian students, the demographic breakdown is roughly the same everywhere.

Anonymous wrote:wish they separated the students from the parents in some events. parents were grabbing the free swag and hogging up the tables.

They did at our DC's dual-program event with faculty and current students. Parents were not any different than another top school admitted days, seemed serious with curriculum and outcomes questions, then outside excited taking a lot of pictures. Typical parents similar to stem magnet high school, no grabbing witnessed