<p>there is a similar topic in another forum.</p>
<p>seriously, what do you guys see the future of UPenn to be? better name recognition in the coming years? a strong increase in competitive admissions?</p>
<p>this is all just for the sake of curiosity.</p>
<p>From excellence to eminence.</p>
<p>Penn is one of those schools that is currently getting better and better. That said, Columbia University in the City of New York had a similar streak in the early-to-mid 90s, and I'd rank it below Penn now. I guess the impact on New York impacted it considerably, too.</p>
<p>Penn still has a long way to go before reaching the heights currently scaled by Harvard and Stanford.</p>
<p>In the sence of prestige perceived by the general public - yes.</p>
<p>Otherwise? In actual quality of education? I doubt you can provide any accurate measure of quality of education, so any evidence would be purely anecdotal. Quality of education varies to such a great degree with each professor.</p>
<p>As for Penn - it has momentum.</p>
<p>I don't think Penn is as famous as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or Princeton (except Wharton). Once, my counselor got mixed up University of Pennsylvania with Penn State</p>
<p>yeah thats true lol</p>
<p>you really have to make it a point to say it's an ivy league school? Sad.</p>
<p>i just laugh in my head when people say "oh, penn state." it doesn't really matter in the long run.</p>
<p>usually i'll just go with the "yeah, penn state" but then sometimes people start asking me questions about it so i have to explain how it's not penn state but "upenn" but half the time, after I say that, they asked "where's that? down in the city somewhere?" then I just nod. it can be kind of depressing...</p>
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No, usually I don't. Only if they probe me more to say "oh, why are you going so far" or something to that extent, I point that out.</p>