<p>To anyone who currently attends or has attended UPenn-
what do you love about it?
how is it different than the education your friends are getting at other schools?
Don't spare me any details. Thanks :)</p>
<p>the question should be, what DOESN’T make Penn different :p</p>
<p>The most interesting detail about Penn’s history for me is that it is the first university in the United States that was not established to train clergy. It had the first non-sectarian board of trustees and was founded by Benjamin Franklin to train people in “practical” education (not just theology). All other schools of higher education were built for religious purposes. Penn pioneered secular education.</p>
<p>Although Penn was based in a lecture hall for George Whitefield, Franklin ensured that the university would be non-religious in nature. Penn was the first university to offer both undergraduate and graduate studies, and Wharton is the first collegiate business school in the New World.</p>