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<p>What the deuce. I always knew academia was detached from reality but geez…</p>
<p>tHAT'S COLD DUDE.</p>
<p>I think there are several mitigating factors:</p>
<p>ugrad:</p>
<p>Look at JHU, with SAIS, you'd hardly expect them to round the bottom of the barrel with a 19/20. As for the 18 ranks above them, most of them have a naturally stronger lib arts. programs than Penn, like chicago. the other half have the luxury of being located in the swamp that is d.c. U.S. senators lurking the A.U. campus for freshman girls hardly makes me want to transfer. quite the opposite if look at who is transferring where.</p>
<p>The only unexplained outliers left are schools like cornell with are not as good as penn, arguably.</p>
<p>essentially an explanation for that is also a more general explanation that Wharton/Econ at Penn sucks up alot of each IR class, in terms of focus and also the permeation of interest.</p>
<p>the day i sweat over an A.U. degree having any advantage over my Penn degree is the day Lenin wakes up in Red Square</p>
<p>addendum: god forbid any one of those poeple at UC Sandiego change careers and sell medical supplies with their #14 IR education</p>
<p>also, swarthmore doesnt have an IR program/dept.</p>
<p>Meng I heard Lenin just woke up in Red Square</p>
<p>jon i just heard the feds knocking on your door</p>
<p>If the pot brownie does not fit you must acquit</p>
<p>there's been an edge to you lately</p>
<p><em>washes his underwear, like any god loving american</em></p>
<p><em>washes his dignity</em></p>
<p>scrub hard enough and maybe some yellow will shine through the white, shtir</p>
<p>some parts i'd rather not scrub then</p>
<p>too late for meng</p>
<p>too late for india</p>
<p>i've plucked their crown jewel</p>
<p>boo..........</p>
<p>Is there an actual reason why they completely ignored Penn? Did they think it was Penn State?</p>
<p>half our ir kids sell out and bank, other half probably goes to law school</p>
<p>theres actually a link that shows you where each graduating class from a major goes.</p>
<p>too lazy to find it. CC Gods I invoke thee!</p>
<p>I'll be a freshman next year, and there's a decent chance I'll be doing IR (or PPE).
When I saw the article a few weeks ago in Foreign Policy Magazine, I was kind of shaken up. I mean, the Ivy Penn wasn't listed -- making me seriously question whether I wanted to go since I was going to do IR.</p>
<p>Luckily, I was in DC last week. I talked to a friend of my family's who works for the State Dept, and he thought that that was ridiculous. He knew of many people from Penn who have done incredible things with the IR major. The difference? Most of the Penn grads don't work for the State Dept, but (if I might add) instead have higher paying jobs with companies.</p>
<p>Besides, the standards on which those rankings are based are lame. "Most commonly listed in the top 5"??!! Maybe Penn is just consistently the 6th best. :-P</p>
<p>hmmm, which will help you more as a diplomat/states person/Chancellor of the American Reich?</p>
<p>Philosophy or History?</p>
<p>plato was never ambassador. boy lover.</p>