<p>Well, I think what slipper was trying to say is that Wharton does better than Dartmouth, but Dartmouth does better than Penn. If you look at the law school numbers, you will see that Dartmouth has a higher percentage of undergrads going into those law schools than Penn. I'm not really going to take a stand on the "placement" issue. I'm a Dartmouth and Wharton hopeful, and I would love to go to either school, but I suppose both of you are extremely biased.</p>
<p>If it's not clear already, keep in mind that red&blue is a (proud) Penn alum here to defend his/her honor. Grains of salt abound.</p>
<p>Nope. Penn is not the issue here, it's BalletGirl making inflated statements (and Slip supporting them) b/c of his/her support for Dartmouth. That's what the debate is about. </p>
<p>If Skip wants to cherry pick stats for a spurious Penn vs Dartmouth debate, he can all day. I wont bother in those silly arguments</p>
<p>Wharton IS Penn. if you're going to argue that Dartmouth does better than "Penn" you should be more clear if you are referring to Penn writ large of the College of Arts & Sciences that would be the most direct comparison to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Of course even then you can't directly compare because Penn's CAS is around 6000 students, and because there is so much cross-registration and cross-fertilization of ideas, talents, and skills across the multiple undergraduate schools.</p>
<p>Which utimately comes to the main point that it is impossible to say which school is "better" when the differences in institutional structure are so grand and the differences between student bodies so minute (if they exist at all)</p>