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<p>Plenty of students at Penn come from the Philly area. My cousins live there and their high schools send a lot of their best to Penn. It’s just that Penn is so close to home that it loses its mythical allure. Some of the superstars don’t want to go where a lot of their classmates, including a fair number of mediocre faculty kids/legacies/donors, are already going. But to say that no one from Philly wants to go to Penn is false.</p>