Penn is great at what it does, which is pre-professional focus. In that, it is more similar to many of the top public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

+1 Penn is not that great.

It is pretty close to Harvard. Closer than Yale these days. Penn excels at STEM, business, medicine, and law, among other things.

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

+1 Penn is not that great.

Except the world's most powerful man and richest man both went there. Whether you like them or not, it says a lot.

The fact that both Trump and Musk went to Penn tells people what they need to know - Penn Wharton is a finishing school for psychopaths. I think it even beats Harvard on the list of schools with most repulsive graduates.

I guess that means all U of Delaware & Syracuse Law grads are lying stumblebums who do precisely nothing for their country for 50 years yet somehow end up sitting on millions of dollars?

Yep - and we know that most of those Delaware grads only graduated because they plagiarized the work of students from other colleges...

Anonymous wrote:At Tulane? At American? GWU?

Prestige for who? For the kid and their job prospects, or for the parents who don't want their fancy friends to make that puzzled face when you tell them where your child attends college?

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

+1 Penn is not that great.

Except the world's most powerful man and richest man both went there. Whether you like them or not, it says a lot.

The fact that both Trump and Musk went to Penn tells people what they need to know - Penn Wharton is a finishing school for psychopaths. I think it even beats Harvard on the list of schools with most repulsive graduates.

I guess that means all U of Delaware & Syracuse Law grads are lying stumblebums who do precisely nothing for their country for 50 years yet somehow end up sitting on millions of dollars?

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

+1 Penn is not that great.

Except the world's most powerful man and richest man both went there. Whether you like them or not, it says a lot.

The fact that both Trump and Musk went to Penn tells people what they need to know - Penn Wharton is a finishing school for psychopaths. I think it even beats Harvard on the list of schools with most repulsive graduates.

Anonymous wrote:At Tulane? At American? GWU?

Prestige stops with kids who are purely motivated by prestige and financial outcomes, not at all by learning.

Bright, serious kids who care about learning and end up at the ailing Jesuit college down the street will gild the college with some prestige.

Kids who networked and connived their way into Harvard, without ever caring much about learning, will make Harvard look tawdry.

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

+1 Penn is not that great.

Except the world's most powerful man and richest man both went there. Whether you like them or not, it says a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

+1 Penn is not that great.

These sorts of threads are what make this forum insufferable. Fascinating reading for a sociologist, maybe, but otherwise this really doesn't add any value.

At the school you attended, the rest are just strivers and posers.

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Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton

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

Afterwards:
No prestige

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

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

Penn is on the rise with over 72,000 apps this year. Yale apps went down.

Penn grads are destroying the country.

So are Harvard and Yale grads.

Not at the same level of destructiveness.

Probably much worse from Harvard and Yale.

Anonymous wrote:Prestige cutoff is with 15

Ivies, Stanford, mit, cal tech, chicago, northwestern, duke, jhu

Great that includes Cornell which is 12 and an Ivy. LOL.

Seriously, Hopkins is questionable. Agree otherwise.

Also, this does not include top SLACs--I think you need to include some SLACs e.g. Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, and Barnard (and Harvey Mudd for engineering) at least.

Prestige cutoff is with 15

Ivies, Stanford, mit, cal tech, chicago, northwestern, duke, jhu

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Anonymous wrote:Only 2 schools in Boston have prestige Harvard and MIT obviously. BC, BU, and NEU never had and never will. Add in Wellesley College for prestige but very limited customer base.

BC is fairly prestigious and BU is respectable. Not sure about NEU.

We don't live in the 90s anymore.
It's long gone.