Congratulations, but you've been tricked!

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<p>Hello and congratulations to all who have gotten in! And to all who have received a less than positive result, this post is fit for you to read as well!</p>

<p>You’ve all been tricked! Here’s why. By the way, I absolutely love it here at Penn. </p>

<li><p>I’m sorry, but you are about to go through the most difficult studying process mankind has ever invented for torturing purposes. Enjoy the rest of high school, you will never be as free again. Penn is no “party” college.</p></li>
<li><p>Amy Gutmann recently gave a speech to the Wharton class of 2012 under the influence. She called Wharton the “best law school in the US” and she attempted to kiss the Dean in the mouth. Also, google image “Amy Gutmann Halloween Party.” Yes my friends, that is a terrorist.</p></li>
<li><p>Fire alarms ring every two days at 1:00 in the morning. Usually for just cause, since we’ve had fires in dorm rooms already. But otherwise, my friends and I go back to sleep if we’re sleeping at all. We never exit the dorms despite warnings of fines up to $100 per sighting for each student</p></li>
<li><p>We had a recent death at Penn, a person whom we love and respect. He, whether by accident or not, fell from the rooftop of a dormitory in the Quad. I’m not sure how he got on the rooftop, but don’t try it.</p></li>
<li><p>Thinking about taking a class because it is easy? SEAS students, thinking about taking that silly-sounding Psychology class because it’s easy and has no math? Think again! The two classes I’m taking as freebies are also the hardest class I’m in. Oh, and Penn psychology involves math.</p></li>
<li><p>Wharton students, think you’ll have it the hardest? Think again! You will have it the easiest! Wharton students learn and relearn concepts they’ve known for years but didn’t know their exact terminology. But don’t worry, while that seems like we’re cheating you out of your money, most Wharton students somehow become beastly by the end of four years. The phenomenon is currently under research by professor Paul Rozin.</p></li>
<li><p>Penn admits only all the smart people, right? THINK AGAIN. This is a big one. Collegeconfidential students are exceptional, but you will realize that you aren’t the only ones in Penn! Yes, there are people with <1 GPA here, too. I believe this year we admitted an M&T student who had less than 1900 and no extracurriculars. A mistake by Penn? Nope. Diversification by Penn? Yes. Once you come to Penn, you’ll know they value diversification more than SAT scores! But make no mistake: You see that blonde hottie who is just asking for a man to kiss her? Well, she got a 2400. But she’s one of probably three. The hotter they are, the smarter they are for some reason. This phenomenon has been researched by professor Paul Rozin. Read his abstracts if you like.</p></li>
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<p>There are many, many more ways that we trick you or try! You haven’t received enough Penn info for me to elaborate. You’ll be immersed into the perplexing and unnatural culture we have here at Penn soon enough. </p>

<p>One last word of advice: Don’t EVER buy from Penn. Especially the Penn computer store. They sell horrible computers, and they don’t give you the operating system CD when they sell it to you. If there’s anything wrong, you pay them to fix your computer. Buy. your. own. computer.</p>

<p>Love,
Students in Penn class of 2012 who are trying to better your life by vicarious learning.</p>

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<p>ok lauke with one post. Some of this stuff may be true (like number 4) but you definitely are one of the few who have the opinion.</p>

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<p>So Millhouse with 482 posts,
If i am one of the few who absolutely loves it in Penn, I wouldn't have written this. I would have asked everyone not to apply.</p>

<p>And yes, Amy Gutmann DID give a speech under the influence. Fool, she did this last year as well. She does this either out of tradition or out of some uncanny humor no one understands. But ask Wharton class of 2012. They're quite experienced with Amy Gutmann's foolery. </p>

<p>One of the admissions officers was right. This website IS filled with students who are overqualified for Penn.</p>

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<p>i dunno if the proper term is "tricked"</p>

<p>1) studying sucks everywhere, not just here
2) she's got quite a history of goofs, no big deal - and that's not a terrorist, that's a student who made a poor choice of costume
3) that's why you stop living in heavily freshman dorms; my freshman year had tons of really annoying fire alarms at 3 am and then it stopped after that
4) how does his very unfortunate death have anything to do with admitted prefrosh?
5) you're only speaking from the experience of one semester's attempt at "easy classes", there are some great easy classes out there
6) if whartonites have it the easiest, explain why the core is considered so difficult
7) whatev</p>

<p>and yeah computer connection kinda sucks, but to some of us that was apparent upon first glance (some good deals though if you time it right)</p>

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<p>Well, I've just finished writing one of the dumbest ideas for a writing seminar assignment for the final portfolio ever to have disgraced my path.
That post, although mostly earnest, was a writing seminar project. Seriously. I'm out of here. I've got my A for that class.</p>

<p>oh, and to previous poster. Wharton is considered the easiest of the three. Even the Provost said so. He's about to leave for JHU, but whatever. Oh, and as an M&T student, I feel that way as well. acct101 was MUCH easier than any SEAS course I've taken. Same with bpub250.</p>

<p>and as for the fire alarms, Rodin is the most "fire-alarmed" house in Penn. It is not freshman-dominated.</p>

<p>I have two more finals to go. peace.</p>

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<p>well yeah, not going to contest those points</p>

<p>though you would probably have to agree that, being m+t and doing well, you're rather on top of the curve (and that's not necessarily indicative of overall difficulty)</p>

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<p>Wait, the Wharton core is considered difficult? MGMT100? FNCE100? STAT101? Gimme a break; I've taken some of the Wharton core courses and they were a joke. I see my roommates studying for LGST and MGMT and it looks so easy.</p>

<p>However, I will say that some of the upper-level finance classes at Wharton (I've taken FNCE235 and 206) are some of the more difficult courses I've taken in the whole school, and I've been really impressed by the students in them. But the fact is that the average Wharton student avoids those.</p>

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<p>hm my mistake, i meant difficult compared to sophomore-year workloads in other schools, not overall</p>

<p>and yeah, upper-level courses i'm told are quite tricky</p>

<p>i personally restrict myself to the hcmg curriculum and selected other fun wharton classes</p>

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<p>Lol guys everything Lauke said is right. But that's why we love Penn, and you will too!! What would Penn be without Gutmann's annual drunken speech to Wharton?
What would the Quad and freshman year be like without the constant fire alarms? (we had 2 yesterday... one of them was actually real though and a room burned down... lol)
etc.
Read Lauke's post carefully once more and hopefully you'll realize they are (mostly) reasons to love Penn. We got spunk ;)</p>

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<p>^I'm a really sound sleeper...fire alarms won't bother me...it would take an airstrike maybe...MAYBE. And yes, I love Penn. I have to visit and soak it all up again...and then wait for 9 months :( (that's the only crappy part about ED I guess).</p>

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<p>Lauke is wrong about one thing; the only dumb kids here are the URMs/legacies/athletes. Everyone else is basically a threat to your GPA. You better study hard.</p>

<p>Of course, if you go to any Ivy/Stanford/whatever, you'll meet kids where you wonder how they were ever accepted in the first place. Definitely not the norm though; you think the 18,000 kids they rejected last year were dumb? They could have easily replaced anyone in the class if they had wanted to, they rejected tens of thousands of qualified students, so in general if you got in, you deserve it.</p>

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<p>hm...it appears that i have been tricked. well, is this grounds for me to break my ED argeement? (jk)</p>

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<p>muerteapablo, excuse me? URMs are dumb? I'm a freshman URM and am in 300-level math courses and organic chem, and came in with nine college credits and perfect SATs. I think you need to rethink your comment... btw, muerteapablo doesn't sound too anglo...</p>

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<p>way to stereotype legacies as well</p>

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<p>^^^^he was generalizing...there are always exceptions :)</p>

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<p>Those are indeed reasons to love Penn (except for #4, which I wrote just because I knew the guy and he deserved mention).</p>

<p>URMs/Legacies/Athletes are not always dumb. Legacies are in fact generally not dumb in my opinion. URMs are not accepted just because they are URMs. They're accepted on a merit-basis as well. They just have a plus if they are a URM.</p>

<p>And nj<em>azn</em>premed, see your private message.</p>

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<p>Wait a second, did you say Wharton students have it the easiest? This is no trick, it's a dream come true.</p>

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<p>Sorry; I definitely didn't mean that URMs are dumb. I know a lot of very smart latinos, african americans, etc.</p>

<p>I meant that the dumb kids generally don't deserve to be here, and got in because of special status, ie URM, legacy, athletes etc.</p>

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<p>thats a better answer</p>

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<p>He's missing the part that you'll be in Philadelphia = Inner City = West Philadelphia = Crime
And if you don't believe me, I live here. And no better witness than a person who lived here for 18 years.
Also, UPenn is so close to Drexel University, by inches.
And be prepared for the worst traffic = equally like NYC at Rush Hour, especially with the Bridge closing o0.
Better love your new surroundings.</p>