<p>you know. i may be mistaken, but after visiting both penn and columbia on really nice days, i've come to the conclusion that columbia is the "better" looking ivy (in terms of people)</p>
<p>I would say that Penn and Columbia are about even, but considerably better than other Ivies but considerably worse than most State Schools.</p>
<p>I say they're all hideous, but that's why God invented beer goggles.</p>
<p>"Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>WEll I had basically narrowed it down between Princeton and Penn(wharton)..and I chose Penn.</p>
<p>w000t! score for penn!</p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>Penn owns.</p>
<p>chose penn over : emory, UNC-CH (OOS), GW, etc.</p>
<p>Of comparable selectivity, I chose Penn over Georgetown. I also chose Penn over Vanderbilt, Emory, and Macalester. Macalester was my safety, but I still chose Penn over it, so it counts :).</p>
<p>Penn is an obscure school. Go get yourselves some prestige fellas. Ya'll need it.</p>
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<p>OMG I can't believe that comment. LOL</p>
<p>dude ... why are you even ON this board?</p>
<p>F U penn-disser</p>
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<p>jf215, what did I do? I was just stunned by the comment. Besides, I like the people on this board.</p>
<p>I think Penn has very little prestige. But prestige isn't what makes a school good. Amherst also has very little prestige but I think it's a good school.</p>
<p>Devil May Cry- I think jf215 was referring to the poster above you.</p>
<p>Yeah ok. Collegeperson, care to explain?</p>
<p>Define prestige...is it so that the average farmer or the guy fixing your car would be wowed when they hear you say your school's name? Is it so that derive pure joy from hearing people's wow's and "ooo"s when you mention the name of the college you've come from? If this is your trail of thought (and I assume it is for a majority of the prestige whores on this forum), then you're right, Penn is mistaken for PennState or whatnot a lot of the times. However, to the employers out there who know about the different institutions and so forth (and I assume, even with the lack of common sense, that it is quite obvious that your future employers are the people you will try to impress the most, not Farmer Joe), I'm sure they will respect the Penn diploma as much as any other diploma from a top ten college - whether they hire you or not is then largely based on the other 99.9% of the factors that are not related to the brand name alma mater bumper sticker on the back of your car -yes, the other 99.9 percent is what we call "substance." </p>
<p>It drives me crazy when I hear this talk of prestige. For god sakes, most of you guys (myself included) are too young to judge, too young to know, and hell, by the looks of it, too shallow to actually look into the more objective and important aspects of life: in this case, the infatuation with brand name and the appearance of success rather than success itself. I admit that I rant, it's because you kids who are bashing Penn are baseless and a bunch of arses: by the looks of it, you kids will/have never actually attended the institution, thus, you have no right to judge. And I also doubt that you have the authority to make such generalizations such as "Penn isn't prestigious," for what you've used to measure "prestige" consists of not any sort of relevant information, rather, your generalization is purely based on your own circle of friends, yourself, and your community: therefore, I must conclude, you live under a rock. Get out while there's still time.</p>
<p>UPenn is not as prestigious as say Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or MIT. It doesn't have the "instant respect," conversation stopping ring to it. People don't care about Upenn, and in all likelihood, never truly will. UPenn is like Einstein's third cousin twice removed or Aristotle's bus boy. It has some faint connection to the greats but is very mediocre/ordinary in and of itself. Although many people disagree with UofPenn's #4 ranking on US News, no college actually worries about UofPenn becoming a worthy compeitor. MIT may very well be more worried about schools like Berkeley than it is of UPenn. Even southerners like Duke give the top schools a run for their money, whereas Penn is not even a nuisance. It doesn't compete or steal prestige because, well, all it does is just.....just......stays there like some old bench in a park with a seagull and a homeless person resting on its hallowed planks.</p>
<p>My logic on Penn:
Penn and Wharton will not hurt you in the long run. There may be better schools out there, but Penn will not hurt your chances.
Philly is a cool city.
Fun campus.
Palestra and Franklin Field rock.
They THROW TOAST! I mean, while you are in college, USNWR ranking probably don't mean as much as your diversions, such as perfecting the art of toasted projectiles.</p>