<p>I have always wanted to apply to Penn ED, now many people do not relize how crucial that decision is; it is binding. The thing is, $50,000 ( room board and tution) is a lot. How do you guys plan to pay for all of this? Secondly, Penn is academically challenging, but just how much? Is the difficulty level overwhelming? Can anyone state from experience what the classes are like and such. IE: compare them to say a college like Penn state, or a better college like georgetown/ NYU. Thirdly for anyone who is already a penn student, please describe how your college life is. Describe the amount of freetime, studytime, ec activity time, you have. Also describe your overall feeling at penn. Thank you sooo much!</p>
<p>well I've only been here for 2 months only so I couldn't tell you much. Difficulty depends somehow on what you're studying, I'm in engineering and I always find some free time in the end of the day, but I'm not getting all As or even close, but I like what I'm studying and that's what matters to me. The average here is crazy, at least it was for me, for example, I failed my first exam at Penn by scoring the lowest score out of 90 students in class, I got a 57 and the mean was 85. Although I thought I was prepared for the exam, I didn't do well. So it's not that the material is difficult but it's the crazy people you have in class who will score 100s all the time and you have to keep up with them or your GPA will sore. I think the quality of students is a key difference between Penn and another college. But the material here is taught in a better way than most other colleges, the assignments are more substantial, and if you did enough research about professors, you can have amazing professors teach you all the time.</p>
<p>bump..
thanks RejectedfromMIT , anything about financial aid? or anyone else want to give their opinion?</p>
<p>rejectedfromMIT, what type of school did you go to? I know a couple of people from my school who go there and they say they can cope up with it. But the guy I know is like a work-a-holic.</p>