<p>Isn’t Penn State better than UPenn for Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science and Physics?</p>
<p>No, I don't believe that PSU is better than PENN is any of those areas. You're trying to compare a 3rd tier university to an Ivy League institution; this isn't to say that PSU is a bad school. I'm just saying that PENN is much better than PSU for those areas.</p>
<p>I would say UPenn is better simply becasue it's an ivy.</p>
<p>have you seen the undergrad engineering rankings?</p>
<p>in fact Ivy status just gives Penn more attention, if it wasn't in the athletic conference the college wouldn't be popular at all...</p>
<p>It seems you already made up your mind sonny.</p>
<p>I probably should have posted this first. I don't know that much about the Engineering field. (I'm more interested in Political Sci myself). I was just going on the basis that overrall University of Penn is a better (higher ranked school) than Penn State. But after a quick google search proved that you are right. Check this site out.
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php</a></p>
<p>I agree with jose the way your posting it seems like you already know your answer.</p>
<p>It seems that Ritchieboy has an agenda against PENN...</p>
<p>Were you deferred? :)</p>
<p>hey ritchie...since when did the strength of a few (carefully selected) departments become the basis for comparing schools? if you are gonna criticize, take an avg of the ranks for ALL majors each for penn and penn state....then compare....by the way, university of illiniois is ranked number 3 in engineering...higher than hyp and MANY other good schools....what does this tell you about u of i? absolutely nothing other than that they have a strong engineering dept....</p>
<p>instead of making dumba$s arguments like you are making, please attempt to make logical ones...then, just maybe, i will consider taking you seriously</p>
<p>goodbye!</p>
<p>look at the political science rankings. Poli sci is one of Penn's WORST departments. Of course, if you only care about getting into grad school, the quality of the dept means little... what will matter most is your gpa & standardized test scores. However, the truth is penn is crappy for poli sci.</p>
<p>wonderful...WHO cares about one dept? you CANNOT transfer rankings from one dept/major to general status of the whole school.....by the way ritchieboy, did you apply anywhere early?</p>
<p>Yeah I had a friend who's dad went to Penn something. I forgot if it was U Penn or Penn State because back then I didn't know U Penn was an ivy.</p>
<p>Even the University of Chicago kicks Penn's ass academically.</p>
<p>In Response you your post Ritchie...</p>
<p>"look at the political science rankings. Poli sci is one of Penn's WORST departments. Of course, if you only care about getting into grad school, the quality of the dept means little... what will matter most is your gpa & standardized test scores. However, the truth is penn is crappy for poli sci."</p>
<p>If you re-read my post...</p>
<p>"I probably should have posted this first. I don't know that much about the Engineering field. (I'm more interested in Political Sci myself). I was just going on the basis that overrall University of Penn is a better (higher ranked school) than Penn State. But after a quick google search proved that you are right. Check this site out.
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/gr...grank_brief.php">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/gr...grank_brief.php</a>"</p>
<p>you will see that I was simply helping you prove you point about the Engineering program at Penn State being better. Actually I'm not applying to UPenn at all. I was just trying to help you out. My #1 choice is Princeton, which has an excellent Political Science program....Thank You Very Much. Just because someone applies to an Ivy doesn't mean they are only interested into getting into Grad school. So stop generalizing!</p>
<p>Stanford does not kick Penn's ass.</p>
<p>And also that link shows graduate programs, not undergrad programs.</p>
<p>but again, i judge a school by how far it takes you.</p>
<p>Hmm...even if a specific program is rated higher at PSU, most students would undoutably get a better overall education from Penn than from some state school.</p>
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