- One University Policy. Where else could I take Law School classes as an undergrad? True legitness.
- A world class education, and you can enjoy the college experience too. Penn is "The Social Ivy."
- Southernmost/warmest Ivy
- College with the best balance of theoretical education and practical, hands-on education
- Located in a world class city! Philly is great.
- Founded by Benjamin Franklin
- Liberal Arts and Sciences are awesome and nationally ranked
- SEAS is awesome! Lots of hands on experience
- The Quad
- Wharton!
- Fighting Quakers (best/most ironic/oxymoronic name ever)
- Penn girls are awesome!
- 1 hour and 15 minute train ride to NYC!
- Plush suburban park in the middle of a city
- It is fun here!
- Locust walk
- #1 in Nursing!
- John Legend
- Awesome and encouraging professors
- Career Services is da bomb
- Endless research opportunities
- Women in Computer Science (WiCS) ROCKS!
- Awesome alumni network
- Special programs: NETS, DMD
- Amazing club opportunities
- Greek life!
- 3rd Ranked medical school
- Warren Buffett went here.
- Spring Fling
- Management and Technology Program (M & T)
- World's first collegiate business school (1881)!
- Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowhips (CURF)--terrific resource and clearing-house for the hundreds of research positions available to Penn undergrads at any given time.
- Semester Abroad
- Franklin Field. Oldest football field in America.
- Best dining scene within a 10-minute walk of campus of any Ivy (yes, including Columbia) (Penn Gazette | The Omnivore?s New Dilemma (Which exotic University City restaurant should we try tonight?))
- Vagelos MLS Yeah!
- Penn Apps
- Huntsman
- Kelly Writers House (unparalleled center for creative writing and writers of all sorts)
- Platt Student Performing Arts House (amazing resource for Penn's diverse and vibrant student performing arts community)
- Hack 4 Impact!
- Lots of nationally top-ranked liberal arts departments (e.g., English, History, Anthropology, Linguistics, Art History, Religion, Music, Economics, etc.)
- One of the largest and most diverse undergraduate liberal-arts schools in the Ivy League (and the only one that also allows--and encourages--liberal-arts undergrads to take courses in Wharton, Engineering, Nursing, the Law School, the School of Design, the Annenberg School for Communication, the Graduate School of Education, the School of Social Policy and Practice, . . . .)
- Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowhips (CURF)--terrific resource and clearing-house for the hundreds of research positions available to Penn undergrads at any given time.
- Throwing TOAST
- Vanessa Bayer
- Hey Day!
- Penn Humanities Forum
- The Button XD
- Opportunities to interact with and volunteer in the surrounding community
- Food Trucks
- The unique compass
- Internships
- Cheesesteaks!
- Elizabeth Banks
- Under the button ;D
- Thedp.com
- AGut
- The Singh Nanotechnology Center
- 28 Nobel Prize winners
My favorite parts…
- The cool gate by the arts building
- The Addams Family
- I once got a bag of Godiva for 79 cents on sale at the bookstore
- Qdoba AND Chipotle on campus!
- You can sneak into Wharton events and get free food
- The sixth floor of the library
- Vedge in Center City
Great list:
13. 1 hour and 15 minute train ride to NYC!
15. It is fun here!
20. Career Services is da bomb
28. Warren Buffett went here
33. Semester Abroad
Why not just add:
- Close to Villanova, who has the #1 basketball team.
- Lunch tastes good.
- Dorms have bathrooms
- Donald Trump went here
- Spring Break
I’m not going to add more to this list, but I just want to address the comment about Career Services. Students do well with recruiting because the firms seek Penn students, not because our “Career Services is da bomb” (not because Career Services does a good job managing firm relationships).
In fact, this year was a total mess honestly because OCR officially switches to the fall this upcoming school year, but firms came in the fall this year and Career Services didn’t know how to handle it. They thought that by telling firms that they can’t use the OCR suite and that they had to be off-campus that the firms wouldn’t come in the fall. It ends up Career Services has a lot less power than they thought, which left a lot of students in problematic situations, as firms had a lot of leverage over students in recruiting this year, and Career Services wasn’t able to help. That said, this was a one time problem in all likelihood because OCR will be in the fall starting next year, but even in prior years of being at Penn, I’ve never found Career Services to be particularly impressive.
I did not add that to the list myself. We can take it off, if no one objects. I doubt they will unless the head of career services is on cc:
DD got a great job for this summer, but she got it via a career fair, not career services. The only thing they did was provide a few comments on her resume.
Oh, I thought this was a list that you made. Where’d this list come from?
What’s OCR? Not familiar with that acronym.
On-campus recruiting
@WhartonPenn2017 It was from an old thread. I did revise it a bit, and reorder a few things, but the majority of them were there already. I thought it might be helpful for some of the students making decisions.
Are a lot of students at Penn part of Greek life?
@BL2017 I think it’s around 30% (something like that).
I can’t believe that I left off the Love Statue and Dueling Tampons! What other university has those?
Plus Elon Musk, Sharon Stone, and Drew Faust.
No Sharon Stone at Penn (unfortunately). But still, Candice Bergen, Elizabeth Banks, Vanessa Bayer, Whitney Cummings, Melissa Fitzgerald, . . . .
Revised Reasons to go to Penn List!
- One University Policy. Where else could I take Law School classes as an undergrad? True legitness.
- A world class education, and you can enjoy the college experience too. Penn is "The Social Ivy."
- Southernmost/warmest Ivy
- College with the best balance of theoretical education and practical, hands-on education
- Located in a world class city! Philly is great.
- Founded by Benjamin Franklin
- Liberal Arts and Sciences are awesome and nationally ranked
- SEAS is awesome! Lots of hands on experience
- The Quad
- Wharton!
- Fighting Quakers (best/most ironic/oxymoronic name ever)
- Penn girls are awesome!
- 1 hour and 15 minute train ride to NYC!
- Plush suburban park in the middle of a city
- It is fun here!
- Locust walk
- #1 in Nursing!
- John Legend
- Awesome and encouraging professors
- Elon Musk
- Endless research opportunities
- Women in Computer Science (WiCS) ROCKS!
- Awesome alumni network
- Special programs: NETS, DMD
- Founded in 1740
- Greek life!
- 3rd ranked medical school
- Warren Buffett went here.
- Spring Fling
- Management and Technology Program (M & T)
- World's first collegiate business school (1881)!
- Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowhips (CURF)--terrific resource and clearing-house for the hundreds of research positions available to Penn undergrads at any given time.
- Friends you keep for a lifetime
- Franklin Field. Oldest football field in America.
- Best dining scene within a 10-minute walk of campus of any Ivy (yes, including Columbia) (Penn Gazette | The Omnivore?s New Dilemma (Which exotic University City restaurant should we try tonight?))
- Vagelos MLS Yeah!
- Internships
- Huntsman
- Kelly Writers House (unparalleled center for creative writing and writers of all sorts)
- Platt Student Performing Arts House (amazing resource for Penn's diverse and vibrant student performing arts community)
- Hack 4 Impact!
- Lots of nationally top-ranked liberal arts departments (e.g., English, History, Anthropology, Linguistics, Art History, Religion, Music, Economics, etc.)
- One of the largest and most diverse undergraduate liberal-arts schools in the Ivy League (and the only one that also allows--and encourages--liberal-arts undergrads to take courses in Wharton, Engineering, Nursing, the Law School, the School of Design, the Annenberg School for Communication, the Graduate School of Education, the School of Social Policy and Practice, . . . .)
- Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowhips (CURF)--terrific resource and clearing-house for the hundreds of research positions available to Penn undergrads at any given time.
- Throwing TOAST
- Vanessa Bayer
- Hey Day!
- Penn Humanities Forum
- The Button XD
- Opportunities to interact with and volunteer in the surrounding community
- Food Trucks
- The unique compass
- Penn Apps
- Cheesesteaks!
- Elizabeth Banks
- Under the button ;D
- Thedp.com
- AGut
- The Singh Nanotechnology Center
- 28 Nobel Prize winners
- Charles Addams (The Addams Family creator)
- Qdoba and Chipotle on campus!
- Sneaking into Wharton events for free food
- The sixth floor of the library!
- Vedge in Center City
- Drew Faust
- Awesome graduation speakers
- Penn Masala
- The cool gate by the arts building
- Awesome clubs
- The LOVE statue
- Semester abroad
- Whitney Cummings and Melissa Fitzgerald
- Weiss Tech House
Please post additional items!
Happy Valley
@ClarinetDad16 Facepalm… Ha ha ha >:)
@Much2learn “Where else could I take Law School classes as an undergrad?” Harvard, Yale, and many others. Great feature, but far from unique to Penn…
Suggested add to the list: Chanting "Princeton S*cks while standing in the Palestra.
The One University Policy. It’s really a one-of-a-kind policy that is exemplary of the freedom of intellectual thought that Penn advocates.
- PennApps
- Cute squirrels