<p>I'm looking into a program as a visiting student to an ivy league school. I've chosen UPenn, but my understanding is that it is available at other ivys too. Through LPS, there is an non degree seeking undergraduate studies enrollment program. You get to take courses at Penn for a semester or two. There is no financial aid. Non-Degree</a> Studies | Penn LPS</p>
<p>Will a visiting student gain access to all the resources that regular student have, besides Wharton classes which are not open to visiting students. What about the social life? Will I have opportunities to engage in activies and network? Is this similar to a domestic study abroad, and instead of going overseas I can go to Penn? I was thinking about studying abroad in London, which cost about 20,000 for a semester while a semester at Penn cost 27,000 dollars. Do you guys think it is worth it? Which would you recommend? Maybe Harvard instead? I want to get my Mrs. Degree in college, and Penn seems like a good place to look!</p>
<p>Is this line meant as a joke? I’ve never met a woman who would openly admit to actively seeking an “Mrs.” degree, even in cases where it was plainly true.</p>
<p>To the OP; if you’re interesting in good engineering schools, most accredited schools will serve your purposes. The facilities may not be exactly the same but paying $27,000 a semester for essentially the same coursework (minus the risk of actually getting a degree is not too smart unless you can afford to pay for it.</p>
<p>How about UWash, Seattle?
But DS is not where you are, yet. Too much fun doing other things.
24 yo, Engineering CMU, dual degreed, Masters Toronto. Working halftime as university staff. halftime at a startup (no MBA). However, you got to really put in the work with no guarantee of success. Parents can not be seen as supportive, ie your on your own.</p>
<p>Given that we live in the age of hook ups and not one of many serious college relationships, I’d say if the Mrs. degree is your goal, the $27K/semester is probably not worth it. You’d probably need more time to seriously rope a non pathetic guy into serious commitment.</p>
<p>hmom5 what do you mean? Only losers will go for relationships? I certainly don’t want a loser…
I guess I could just be friends with a guy and if it comes to that point where we get serious than that is that. And maybe it’ll lead to marriage and maybe not…</p>
<p>No, hmom5 is saying it takes more than a semester or two to snare a guy. </p>
<p>And yes, going to college for a semester or two solely to meet men is a bad financial idea. You could accomplish the same thing by hanging around the college for free.</p>
<p>Remember the girl who tried that at Stanford? I think she’s in jail.</p>
<p>I have 3 kids at top colleges. They all report very few real relationships among their friends. Youngest DS has a girlfriend–they’re considered weird. Average marriage age has gone up considerably for the educated in the US. Grad school is a much better place to achieve your goal as questionable as it may be.</p>
<p>“I want to get my Mrs. Degree in college, and Penn seems like a good place to look!”</p>
<p>LOL! I haven’t heard any woman talking about getting an “Mrs” degree since the mid 1970s, when someone said that at a convention I was attending. She was wearing high heels and a cocktail dress to a crab boil and looked like a fool. She sounded silly, too.</p>
<p>Most people divorce who get married at 22 or younger. …</p>
<p>You don’t have to masquerade as a student, like the Stanford girl did, to “hang around” a school. You could get a part-time job, live in a nearby apartment, hang out at the college kids’ popular coffee shops, clubs, and restaurants, and eat meals on campus a lot. Maybe even take a few courses at the Extension and buy a school hoodie to wear.</p>
<p>I am going to design a new major at Stanford, it will be called the “Mr.” major. I will find some crazy psychology professor to run the program. Crazy psych profs are a dime a dozen at this school, just look at Zimbardo. In this major, male students will learn how to identify a potential suga mama, how to woo said suga mama, and how to keep your suga mama satisfied.</p>
<p>In addition, males in this major will undergo intense psychological preparation for their mid life crises. During their early 40s, the untrained male Stanford gold digger is going to think “Wow, I had all this potential, I kicked butt in high school and went to a great university, but look at me know, I am just some ugly chicks man toy”, but fortunately graduates of this program will be trained in the art of not reflecting on their lives, so no mid life crises will happen.</p>
<p>To supplement the theory that will be taught in the classroom, applications will be studied in one of the most abundant gold mines in all the world, Palo Alto. In this city, students will be taught the art of cougar hunting. They will track the migration pattern of the cougar between different vacation homes. Also, the students will be trained on what to do if this cougar is married. Students will learn the way of the affair, after he has that cougar eating out of the palm of his hand, he will then enlist his lover’s help in syphoning all of the unsuspecting husbands money into an account in the Caiman Islands. The business school will educate the students in the art of money laundering. After his finances are in order he can live out his life in peace on a beach so where in the Caribbean.</p>
<p>Yes, this is what you sound like to me when you talk about a Mrs. degree.</p>
<p>that’s crazy, I can’t imagine ever doing anything like that…
by hanging out around penn, i was thinking of partying with penn students or going to a social event or something, getting a job on campus or that sort
not breaking into dorms and pretending to be a student lol
thats really crazy
Do you know if she was arrested and went to jail?</p>
<p>Aren’t you all being a little harsh? As questionable as the OP’s aims are, we really shouldn’t be so quick to judge. Maybe she had parents who met in college and fell in love with the idea. That said, OP, I do think it’s a waste to spend $27000 if your sole purpose is to find a future husband, since its likely not going to happen.</p>
<p>FYI - according to my S (a fully matriculated UPenn engineering student) they all claim to know which are the actual UPenn students and which are the “Drexel kids wearing UPenn hoodies” I am NOT making any judgements about the relative merits of the two schools - just reporting the comments of my own “full of himself” 19 year old!</p>