So I’m a huge college sports fan (especially football), so I was wondering what the sports culture at Penn is like. Everything about the school made me fall in love with it, but I always dreamed of going to a school where I would be going to football games on Saturday afternoons with my buddies and tailgating. But being an Ivy, I have a feeling Penn isn’t like that at all. I feel like I am a decently qualified applicant at the school (35 ACT, 4.1 W GPA, 770 SAT Math II, 750 Bio SAT II, 9 AP classes & 9 Honors Classes, 162 Community Service Hours, 4 Varsity letters in Cross Country), but obviously it is a reach school and therefore it is one of my top two ED choices (the other being Duke, which is obviously exceptional at sports). So I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on what it’s like at Penn! Thank you!
You might be better off posting this on the Penn page since it is school specific.
The sports games are pretty well attended from what I hear! To be fair, I never went but my roommate went all the time decked out in Penn gear. She was originally from a huge sports school and said Penn wasn’t exactly the same but definitely had a good turnout with an engaged audience. And there’s some story about throwing toast on the field because of the line “a toast to dear old Penn” in the song, after the legal drinking age was changed, and the engineering students created a toast-zamboni to clean it all up after every game…something like that. But sports are definitely a thing.
Penn football game attendance averages 10,000. Basketball 5,000. Compare that with Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan football at 100,000+ per game. Stanford is nearly 50,000.
penn relays is a big deal with attedance at 100,000+
Duke football game attendance averages 27,000.