<p>Hi Folks, where did you read about a decline? I can't seem to find that particular article.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>astonmartinDBS, Columbia has yet to release figures on how the economic downturn has impacted their endowment. It probably dropped to a similar figure as Penn's most likely. No biggie there.</p>
<p>IRC, Penn's endowment dropped 19.4% to $5.0 billion</p>
<p>And if they ever changed the name, it wouldn't make sense for it to be Wharton (that'd be a slap in the face to Ben Franklin). Ben Franklin >>>> Joe Wharton. It's either Franklin, or keep Penn as is.</p>
<p>Franklin reminds me of a turtle. no thank you.</p>
<p>Hahaha Franklin University will not do</p>
<p>Well, University of Pennsylvania it is then.</p>
<p>i dunno i mean brown could be confused with a color, columbia with colombia, and cornell with cornell college. i think its just poor marketing. if brown university could create a recognizable name, then so should penn. step 1: commercials</p>
<p>commercials... NO! they are so tacky.
make the NCAA tourney... YES!</p>
<p>Penn is the last Ivy team to make it to the Final Four (1979, when they ran into a little phenomenon named "Magic"). I believe it is also the last Ivy team to win a game in the NCAA men's tournament. Penn was really a perennial in the tournament until recently (i.e., Fran Dunphy's departure to coach Temple). It has been to the tournament 22 times since 1970.</p>
<p>Princeton is the last Ivy to win a tourney game, in 1998.</p>
<p>penn basketball sucks</p>
<p>It certainly does under Glen Miller, anyway...grrrr...</p>
<p>I haven't had a bagel in months....</p>
<p>^^^doesnt make sense.</p>
<p>from an international applicant's perspective, I found Penn's approach pretty good..here in India, they conducted programs in 4 cities..out here, Dartmouth seems to be the least recognized amongst the 8 ivies.</p>
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<p>There seems to be a lot of sentiment these days for Miller to be canned. Maybe he could be replaced--as he was at Brown--by Michelle Obama's brother, and then the Penn basketball team could get in on some of that stimulus money. :)</p>
<p>Craig Robinson is at Oregon State. I highly doubt Penn would pay him more $$...</p>
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<p>I was being facetious. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>No wai?!?!?!?</p>
<p>Wow 21% increase in applications to Brown? Penn needs to get their act together. If we drop again in U.S news rankings I'm going to be ****ed.</p>
<p>"At at certain point, we can't give each applicant a sufficient amount of attention if there are too many of them overall," he said. "Right now, we're at a great point. We're basically even with last year.</p>
<p>Where did they find this guy...I think we need a new Dean of Admissions</p>
<p>uUH OH THE RANKING BETTER NOT DROP</p>