<p>honestly, where did this HYPMS thing start. I mean, i think everyone knows HYP, but S and M, are they in the same peer group, especially MIT, its a tech school...</p>
<p>Staticsoliloquy, why are you getting so angry and defensive? Honestly, I would expect someone of your caliber to show a little more maturity. Everyone knows that Stanford is as good as Harvard. Don't take baba's comments so seriously</p>
<p>Like they "politics is local" so is placement in CA. Stanfurd competes with UC for top CA kids.</p>
<p>wow, kids getting into stanford with sub 1300 sat scores...very interesting.</p>
<p>All I inferred from that site is that these are the colleges that the kids got into and this is the college that s/he chooses to attend.</p>
<p>In the 1st Quintile:</p>
<h1>5 picked UPENN over Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, UCLA, Berkeley, and Michigan.</h1>
<p>Hmm. None of those kids choose UPENN over Stanford. Likewise, none of them choose Stanford over UPENN.</p>
<p>"Go Trojan"</p>
<p>According to your stupid stevenson pdf file, the only schools that the graduates turned down for USC are:
Northwestern, UC Berkeley, Michigan U, UCLA, UCSD, Loyola Marymouth, UCSB, Boston U, Case Western, U/Colorado, U/Illinois, American U, Arizona SU, Sarah Lawrence, Catholic U., U/Arizona, Santa Clara, UCD, RIT, UCI, UWASH, NYU, Tulane, Indiana U,</p>
<p>Hmm. None of them include HYPSM. You lose. Again.</p>
<p>I give up, reading all these from CA, I would suggest these folks to move to NV, that would increase iq of both states.</p>
<p>Gutrade, you've made it clear to us that you don't have any friends in real life, so please do us all a favor and stop taking out your anger on people in these fourms.</p>
<p>gutrade didn't do anything. he merely speaks the majority opinion on why UPENN is lame.</p>
<p>convincing baba is like trying to get a deaf person to appreciate beethoven's fifth symphony. completely useless and tiring. I tried using logic. Doesn't work on a unreasonable person like him.</p>
<p>while penn may not be on par w/ yale in general, penn is NOT "lame"!</p>
<p>go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!! go quakers!!!!....everyone else, kiss my a$$!</p>
<p>Wow, grow up guys...</p>
<p>Dude, don't diss deaf people. That ain't cool man, they have feelings too ya know...</p>
<p>And as for UPENN being lame, all I can say is that what often appears gross and slightly moldy on the outside is often sweet, tender, plump, juicy, moist, and damn damn good on the inside. Don't judge a book by its cover.......dawg ;)</p>
<p>Wow what happened to this thread... it's like someone sneezed on it and forgot to wipe it down</p>
<p>":The majority opinion that Penn is lame?"-what planet are you on? If being surrounded by thousands of kids who do nothing but study all the time and strive to impress people with a higher socioeconomic standing is your definition of cool, then you probably would think Penn is lame. Still, I visited most of the ivys, and by far the student body at Penn was the most energetic, enthusiastic, friendly, most accepting, easy to talk to one of all of them. This is what makes a university good, not whether or not its one of the "big 3"</p>
<p>Wow. Penn is lame? Not where I come from. The HYP acronym can easily be pronounced "hype." I did in fact know someone who mistook the "P" for Penn as opposed to Princeton, lol. But that's not my point.</p>
<p>My cousin was accepted to UPenn, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and some other highly recognized schools. She chose UPenn. Initially, I was a little shocked. I knew UPenn was an excellent school but still, I was in awe that anyone would choose it over Harvard or Yale. Yale was her second choice, along with Cornell.</p>
<p>She said, "A lot of those schools are nothing but names to me. They don't matter a damn. H-Y-P is hype." She meant this in the sense of the school fitting HER.</p>
<p>So why did she choose UPenn? Harvard had been at the top of her list, until she went to visit their campus. The students turned her off. That's the truth. She said the ones she saw didn't seem particularly happy to be there. Upon asking one if he was enjoying his experience, the student nonchalantly replied, "Eh." When she toured UPenn, she found herself surrounded by a diverse and enthusiastic student body. She asked a few UPenn students about their experiences and they simply would not shut up. They all seemed to LOVE their school. And that in itself attracted her.</p>
<p>Yale students seemed...slightly happier than the Harvardians.</p>
<p>FYI, I also know a kid who got into Stanford and rejected at UPenn. He was really upset, too - he wanted to go to UPenn more than Stanford.</p>
<p>Anyone who doubts UPenn's prestige doesn't know what they're talking about. It slays me, really. Then again, I don't really come in contact with these ignorant people that often, so it's all good. :) I can only think of them as arrogant bastards with nothing better to do. And I feel sad for them.</p>
<p>I'm also glad that they don't really seem to exist at UPenn. Because that is where I wish to go. :)</p>
<p>^Good points.</p>
<p>General trend I hear is that Yale and Penn students are "too happy" while Harvard people are less so.</p>
<p>Haha, my cousin wants to do Yale for postgrad. The stuff she said about it was positive, but even more so with UPenn.</p>
<p>LOL nice. I hope she is happy there :)</p>
<p>hahah
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<p>oh, that's sad. but i'm glad to be going to a school w/ happy kids! =D</p>