<p>I have my own washing machine!</p>
<p>What will you have to keep clean?</p>
<p>abstinence</p>
<p>i want my own too!</p>
<p>all of the rooms in the new Hub apartment building have their own washers and dryers i believe - it's expensive as hell to live there though.</p>
<p>not as ungodly expensive as the stratum, though...literally twice the market rate</p>
<p>phillyzero - "Trade school" is not the same as "professional school" . Trade school is generally reserved for "blue collar" occupations such as auto mechanics and calling Wharton a "trade school" is meant as an insult - don't get huffy when you get called on it. I'd say that you are really the "elitist" in your assumption that a school that prepares you for nothing is somehow better than one that teaches you something with real world application. There are some College majors that are very sound and lead you somewhere (e.g to med school) but there are also some (almost any major with the word "studies" in it) that are basically places for people who haven't figured out what they want to do to park themselves or at best you can teach other people more of the same in an endless circle (after you get a graduate degree first). I don't really mind being put in the same category as other honest working people , but I get the feeling that you do, so who's the "elitist"? I don't see how it is dishonorable to learn to do something useful in college - maybe there was a time when "gentlemen" could spend 4 years studying the classics because they had no reason to be concerned about their future occupation but that time has passed. A lot of college people ultimately end up in what you call a "trade school" so why is it ok to do this later but not at the undergrad level? But Wharton is not really a "professional school" either in the sense of law school or med school or beautician school where you are trained for a "specific career" and get a license What is the "specific career" that Wharton qualifies you for (given the many different Wh. majors available) ? A lot of Wh. people choose i-banking today because of the $ but there are many different careers that you could choose - a broader range of opportunities than you could get from having a College degree in some specialized major that really channels you into a niche . What Wharton does is exactly to provide you with a "broad theoretical base" in business the same way that a College major provides you with a theoretical base in math or psychology or whatever. That you fail to understand this shows that you are speaking from ignorance . </p>
<p>I agree that the cross admit chart is not well documented but if you look at the general drift of it, it seems to be consistent - e.g. if you look at the other schools there are no flukey results such as more people choosing Duke over Harvard which you would expect in a study with really weak data such as insufficient sample size . So I would bet that it is correct within say 10 perecentage points. It's possible that some of the close matches are wrong but I don't doubt for example that in the Penn - Harvard matchup , Harvard "wins" more than 50%.</p>
<p>i wanna see what comes of the construction at 39th + walnut...</p>
<p>and whatever happened to the new college house on hill field?</p>
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<p>and whatever happened to the new college house on hill field?
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<p>Let's hope it looks less bizarre in person. On the plus side it will have a lawn on the roof like Huntsman Hall does.</p>
<p>As for the new Hill Square dorms, the current Vision plan calls for their construction in 'phase 2' which is around 2010-2015</p>
<p>For more information on the eastward expansion, you can check out these documents
<a href="http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/whatsNew/campusdev.php3%5B/url%5D">http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/whatsNew/campusdev.php3</a></p>
<p>let's see, I've already made it abundantly clear that I'm not a humanities or social science major and am premed, so this leads me to believe that you simply don't read posts that might challenge your clearly fragile world view.</p>
<p>If you think the wharton curriculum is in any real extent theoretical, you clearly don't even know where you're planning on attending school and are most likely one of those people who just applied to wharton because you thought the rest of Penn was somehow below you.</p>
<p>Oh, and kudos on deliberately diverting a thread that had clearly changed topic in an effort to restate points that have already been utterly dismissed by most of the other posters, it really speaks volumes about your maturity. The saddest part is, you don't even realize you're embarrassing yourself.</p>
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<p>I kinda think it's a shame their doing stuff on Hill field actually, it was nice to have at least one good chunk of open green space. I don't think anyone seriously expected it to stay that way though.</p>
<p>that picture seems to look deeper than the lot actually is?</p>
<p>oh well, as long as it isn't an eyesore...</p>
<p>What a poor soul that young lad is. I foresee lots of swirlies and urinal cakes in his future.</p>
<p>p'zero - You're right - I hadn't noticed that you were pre-med - this makes your views about Wh even more bizarre since you yourself are "pre-professional" and basically in the same boat as a Wh. student, only with a longer ocean to cross.</p>
<p>You really don't understand Wh. curriculum if you don't think that it's IN PART theoretical. A College physics major would learn the laws and equations of hydraulics but wouldn't be able to fix the brakes in your car, someone in auto mechanic school would learn how a hydraulic braking system actually works in the real world without learning the equations . At Wharton they teach BOTH - first they teach you theoretical aspects in the core courses and later they teach you real world applications. It's basically no different than the pre-med-med school sequence except compressed into 4 years of classroom work instead of 6.</p>
<p>I don't understand your "diverting" comment - is this now officially a thread about the new dorms?</p>