<ol>
<li>Great suburban-looking campus in the middle of a city.</li>
<li>“Social Ivy” - Fun at an Ivy</li>
<li>Incredible departments</li>
<li>brilliant professors interested in your education</li>
<li>talented and vibrant student body</li>
<li>food carts</li>
<li>“One University” interdisciplinary opportunities</li>
<li>Fisher Fine Arts Library</li>
<li>Hey Day</li>
<li>Philly! (might also be in a list of ‘reasons not to attend Penn’)</li>
<li>Actual social scene!</li>
<li>Palestra!</li>
<li>choices of dorm-style dorms, apartment-style dorms, greek housing, off-campus apartments, off-campus rowhouses</li>
<li>Judith Rodin fetishizing</li>
<li>Locust Walk</li>
<li>the philadelphia eagles</li>
<li>Ivy League(we can try to deny that this matters, but it’s definitely a plus)</li>
<li>The Quad</li>
<li>Spring Fling</li>
<li>Millhouse, CrystalPineapple, PennGrl09, and leek13 are going there</li>
<li>WHARTON!!!</li>
<li>Traditions (econ. scream, toast throwing, button, etc.)</li>
<li>The atmosphere.</li>
<li>Great library</li>
<li>Multicultural background.</li>
<li>Huntsman Hall</li>
<li>Cheesesteaks</li>
<li>Medium-sized (not too big, not too small)</li>
<li>BBB</li>
<li>Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences (toughest program at Penn)</li>
<li>Research/internship opportunities</li>
<li>Job potential/recruitment (maybe “Ivy League” covers that )</li>
<li>Proximity to New York City</li>
<li>Proximity to Washington D.C.</li>
<li>Founded by Benjamin Franklin</li>
<li>The First American University</li>
<li>SEX UNDER THE BUTTON.</li>
<li>The Phillies! Yay world series champs!</li>
<li>Hemo’s</li>
<li>Amy Gutmann</li>
<li>Amazing professors</li>
<li>Rush</li>
<li>The hundreds of student organizations</li>
<li>Peeing on Benjamin Franklin</li>
<li>ENIAC was built here</li>
<li>Decent sports teams (compared to peer institutions)</li>
<li>lots of hospitals surround it. perfect for volunteering!</li>
<li>the bridge cinema!</li>
<li>proximity to center city philly. the best city in the US.</li>
<li>college houses / residential programs</li>
<li>NSO</li>
<li>Frat parties (from what I’ve heard)</li>
<li>Great eating options</li>
<li>The richest man in the world (and largest charity-giver in the history of the world went here for a little (didn’t graduate, though))</li>
<li>Franklin Field</li>
<li>Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology</li>
<li>Penn Relays</li>
<li>The Huntsman Program (best program at Penn)</li>
<li>Plexi Pave surface tennis courts</li>
<li>need-blind financial aid</li>
<li>great med school…chance for some early experience if pre-med (and HUP and other hospitals as mentioned above)</li>
<li>Smoke’s</li>
<li>squash courts</li>
<li>great student gyms</li>
<li>SEPTA/30th Street Station-all close, and easy to use</li>
<li>The new kick<em>ss plan for Penn’s campus in the future:
Penn Connects : *—</em>Home</li>
<li>The BioPond</li>
<li>Nursing school</li>
<li>Great study abroad opportunities</li>
<li>Class of 1923 Ice Hockey Rink on campus-skating, hockey, broom ball</li>
<li>WXPN and its great studio on campus: WXPN 88.5 FM :: Public Radio from the University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>College Hall</li>
<li>big 5 basketball</li>
<li>Invincible was shot at Franklin Field and part of the new Transformers was shot at the Quad</li>
<li>Ed Rendell, despite his stupid proposal to cut gov school, went there</li>
<li>Greek Lady restaurant </li>
<li>The Donald went here</li>
<li>Pottruck</li>
<li>It’s the southernmost Ivy… we don’t have to freeze our asses of like, say, Dartmouth kids do</li>
<li>Visible school spirit</li>
<li>Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) program </li>
<li>Food quality (at Hill)</li>
<li>First Ivy to have a female president, and current president is female as well!</li>
<li>Great student-run newspaper (DP)</li>
<li>One of the most vibrant Jewish communities on any college campus</li>
<li>How beautiful it is when the boathouses on the Schuylkill light up at night</li>
<li>Pod, and the fact that it serves a sushi called the “Penn Roll”</li>
<li>Wawa, Wawa, Wawa.</li>
<li>We were in Transformers</li>
<li>Top BE program</li>
<li>New Nano building on the way</li>
<li>Alcohol Amnesty Policy</li>
<li>Chipotle right next to campus</li>
</ol>
<p>There. I added yours, took out the MGMT 100, and added one of my own. Man am I going to be happy to have a Chipotle. I live New Jersey and the closest Chipotle to me is more than 20 minutes away right now.</p>