Anonymous
Post 08/06/2025 22:03     Subject: why do so many kids like Penn?
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Anonymous wrote: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.


Let’s not get carried away…it doesn’t have anything close to a flagship sports culture. It never did, but it’s much less now.

Easily 80% less student sports attendance now vs the 90s when I attended. It’s the same across all the Ivy schools.


True. Ivy kids do not pick the schools for sports culture. Tbf it is kind of odd that some students do pick schools for sports reasons, as recruits or spectators. Only in America.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2025 07:21     Subject: why do so many kids like Penn?
Wharton: easy academics where midwits can strut and get into pimping with an exaggerated sense of self worth
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2025 07:17     Subject: why do so many kids like Penn?
Anonymous wrote:We had a fantastic tour and loved the idea of it. Pipe dream in the end for my high stats girl applying to engineering. But it seems amazing!


We had a terrible tour. We never entered a single building other than the admissions office and the tour guides were more interested in chatting among themselves than they were in talking to prospective students. The only memorable thing about Penn that I recall is that they throw toast at games. Kid wasn't into it. Crossed Penn off list.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 22:34     Subject: Re:why do so many kids like Penn?
MAGA
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 22:17     Subject: why do so many kids like Penn?
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It tends to have a reputation as a school for professionals - finance, engineering, pre-med etc. And that's very appealing to a lot of students. It's an old school. It's prestigious. It has the Ivy brand. For most of the past twenty years, Philadelphia and the neighborhood around Penn have been fine places to live. It has a very good alumni network. And it's a school where applying ED does make a difference.

However, it is really, really difficult to get into Penn from the DMV. Penn is just up the road. And anyone from here is also competing with the NY kids for spots. And New York City rolls very differently than Bethesda, Arlington, and upper NW.


Is this true?



It is hard from anywhere! 70k applications and growing; seas has the lowest acceptance rate with RD and ED combined less than 3% this cycle, between 3 and 3.5 for a few cycles before that.


Could you provide the source link for 3% seas acceptance rate?


DP: the dean said it at one of the grad events this spring, and under 3.5% has been mentioned at parents weekend more than once. we have 2025 and 2027 Penn kids, one is SEAS and we still are shocked got in RD, it has became ridiculous.
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Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 22:14     Subject: why do so many kids like Penn?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It tends to have a reputation as a school for professionals - finance, engineering, pre-med etc. And that's very appealing to a lot of students. It's an old school. It's prestigious. It has the Ivy brand. For most of the past twenty years, Philadelphia and the neighborhood around Penn have been fine places to live. It has a very good alumni network. And it's a school where applying ED does make a difference.

However, it is really, really difficult to get into Penn from the DMV. Penn is just up the road. And anyone from here is also competing with the NY kids for spots. And New York City rolls very differently than Bethesda, Arlington, and upper NW.


Is this true?



It is hard from anywhere! 70k applications and growing; seas has the lowest acceptance rate with RD and ED combined less than 3% this cycle, between 3 and 3.5 for a few cycles before that.


Could you provide the source link for 3% seas acceptance rate?


DP: the dean said it at one of the grad events this spring, and under 3.5% has been mentioned at parents weekend more than once. we have 2025 and 2027 Penn kids, one is SEAS and we still are shocked got in RD, it has became ridiculous.