<p>I know just 3 people that chose here instead of Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton. What make this school so special?</p>
<p>^well many people turn town HYPSM to go to Wharton</p>
<p>people turn down other top schools for all of Penn's colleges, not just wharton. Maybe because penn is soo (ill edit this myself) ****ing awesome!</p>
<p>^yeah well that can be said to many schools
I'm just saying it's very common for Wharton in particular.</p>
<p>Penn is the only school to have both a real city at its doorstep and a vibrant on-campus community (and social scene!). It has a breadth of academic options made available to all undergrads that is unmatchable among its peers. </p>
<p>Plus we have food trucks.</p>
<p>I would ask: what makes Cornell, Columbia, or Princeton so special?</p>
<p>seriously. penn rocks</p>
<p>Is penn like columbia, when students can go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and sit on the stairs. Is there a place where most penn students hangout besides on campus?</p>
<p>try philadelphia, the greatest place on earth.
avenue of the arts, art museum, center city, ben franklin bridge (HA), chinatown, the king of prussia mall...the list goes on and on.</p>
<p>Seriously, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has a couple of collections that ROCK the Met.</p>
<p>Also, I've met a bajillion (literally that many) kids who chose Penn over Brown.</p>
<p>Although I'm just as sure that there are as many at Brown who did the opposite.</p>
<p>The point is, Penn is undeniably on par with Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and definitely preferred to Duke, Cornell, Wash U, Northwestern.</p>
<p>Some day, may it reach the halls of HYPSM.</p>
<p>It seems like this is a distinct possibility; in terms of size and proportion, it is very similar to Stanford, which also has a very large undergrad population and research orientation.</p>
<p>i would choose penn over any school on this planet lol, including HYPS. i hope i gett innnn!!!!</p>
<p>some people choose penn cuz it's like in the middle of the ivies. It's not too elite like HYP, where they get the impression that there are too many snobs, or on the bottom of the ivies like cornell (no offense, I absolutely love cornell).</p>
<p>is it just me or a lot more people are applying to penn this year?</p>
<p>Impossible to know. CC is not a good representation of the population.</p>
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<p>Why on earth would Columbians do that when they have a beautiful neoclassical stairway and quasi-amphitheater at the heart of their campus? Lame-Os ;)</p>
<p>^ Yeah, but NOTHIN' beats those Rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ;)</p>
<p>^Except, so it would seem, the Penn campus, where Quakers choose to spend their time and be One University full of <3 and rainbows</p>
<p>^ And will soon have their very own Weave Bridge To Nowhere!</p>
<p>Getting back to the subject at hand, plenty of people choose Penn over other schools.</p>
<p>I'm a great example of this. I chose Wharton over Yale, Brown, UVA, Michigan, Georgetown, Duke, USC, UCLA, and Cal-Berkeley.</p>
<p>The only two schools I would have definitely chosen over Penn were Stanford (REA) and Harvard. Princeton vs. Penn would have been a toss-up. Luckily, I didn't get into these three schools and I ended up @ Penn. Couldn't be happier!</p>
<p>Don't turn down HYP unless you get into Wharton</p>
<p>^ Plenty of people do, champ. My hallmate turned down Harvard for Penn's College and has never expressed any remorse for his decision. He certainly got more attention as an undergrad than he would have up in Boston....</p>