<p>With an overall score of 95, just below Yale’s 98 (down 1 from last year), and Harvard/Princeton’s 100.</p>
<p>Wharton is also, reportedly, #1 for undergraduate business.</p>
<p>Where did you hear this?</p>
<p>go to college search & selection</p>
<p>I <3 bloated ranking. viva l' me!</p>
<p>I am hoping that isn't true (the Jew thing)... not that I have anything against Jews, but I worry about diversity?</p>
<p>"I am hoping that isn't true (the Jew thing)... not that I have anything against Jews, but I worry about diversity?"</p>
<p>The only place where you'd have to worry about Judaism/ Diversity is Brandeis (more than 1/2 Jewish).
Or Yeshiva, of course.</p>
<p>penn is about 1/3 jewish...you can definitely tell when there are jewish holidays because the campus is practically dead.</p>
<p>that's how it should be! go the best religion / ethnicity ever!</p>
<p>yay, bragging rights secured for yet another year.</p>
<p>oh let's go primdog, let's go. =]</p>
<p>It's nice to see all of my Penn cohorts here...JohnnyK, Jose, bern...You should see how they are all Penn-bashing on the other boards.</p>
<p>just show them my posts about the subjects -- about how it's impossible for these rankings (which are objectively made) to lie and about how hypocritical they're all being unless they can provide another ranking system).</p>
<p>Penn should be ranked 50th based on this thread</p>
<p>LoL </p>
<p>so true</p>
<p>People are lame these days...I think most are refusing to acknowledge change. It has never and probably will never cross their minds that...<em>gasp</em>...Penn's actually a really good school nowadays after years of monetary and administrative reforms...maybe if Penn stays at #4 (or moves up even further ;) ) in the next 10, 20, or 30 years, they'll learn to respect and leave the rankings of the early 1990s behind.</p>
<p>in addition to all the usnews rankings stuff, newsweek just ranked penn as the "Hottest Happiest-to-be-There School" i htink that actually is more meaningful than the usnews ranking, 'cause it shows how most people there are having a great time and just love Penn...no matter how high Penn climbs in the rankings there will always be kids bashing it for whatever reasons they may have, but im glad to see that the kids who actually attend hte school all have tons of spirit and love it.</p>
<p>You know, I wish I had seen the USNWR rankings before I applied to Penn... I totally would have gone ED to Harvard instead, regardless of you know... the fact that I actually LIKED Penn.</p>
<p>These things are so arbitrary. So one school better fits an arbitrary set of catagories than another? I love how most of the people up in arms about how Penn is overrated are basing it on a knee jerk, subjective reaction due to its reputation from 20 or so years ago, when yeah, it was ranked lower for good reasons- that it didn't fit the arbitrary set of catagories as well. </p>
<p>Whatever. If people hate Penn so much, I'm glad they don't go here. It's not like there's any real difference between #1 and #500 so long as it's where you'd be happiest.</p>
<p>Official Standing:</p>
<h1>4, despite a drop in peer assessment, increases in a lot of other categories, still #1 for Faculty resources</h1>
<h1>1, for Wharton undergraduate business program</h1>
<h1>27, Penn Engineering, up one from last year.</h1>
<p>Coincidentally, Harvard, who was tied with Penn for #28, dropped to 31.</p>
<p>sot, can you show me where they ranked that? that's an awesome ranking.</p>
<p>heres what they say about Penn:</p>
<p>HOTTEST FOR HAPPY-TO-BE-THERE
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
While other Ivies deny that applying Early Decision or Early Action yields any advantage, Penn's admissions office has long acknowledged it's more likely to select students who declare the 9,700-undergrad school to be their first choice. Lee Stetson, the dean of undergraduate admissions, says the more students he admits who are eager to be at Penn, the happier the campus. The emphasis on picking students who've picked Penn means freshmen fit in quickly, and "by and large everyone here has found a niche," says rising senior Rachel Fersh, chair of the Undergraduate Assembly.</p>