<p>What do you guys love about it so much?</p>
<p>If you haven’t visited, make sure you do that. A major factor that contributed to my decision to apply was the general vibe of the campus. Other than that and things like the One University policy, Penn is a lot like the other Ivies/top schools. Really any top 10/15 school will set you up for success, you just have to visit as many as you can and base your choice on how they feel to you. Honestly, I really felt like I belonged at Penn.</p>
<p>read all of our posts that involve another school vs. penn and see why we choose penn!!!</p>
<p>It’s the best.</p>
<p>The end.</p>
<p>I applied because it was a good school located 25 minutes from my house, just like Drexel and Villanova. I enrolled because it was in the city (one thing Penn State didn’t have for me), because I didn’t get into the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State, because I didn’t get any money to Boston University, and because of the three (Penn, PSU and BU) Penn seemed the best fit for me.</p>
<p>Wharton -> ibanking -> $$$ + career opportunities </p>
<p>Yeah, even with the recession. Plus, the market won’t stay down forever. Are you going to let one uncontrolled market cycle affect the next 40 something years of your life until retirement?</p>
<p>It felt like I should be there. The quality of the program really didn’t impact my decision too much (I’m SEAS). Penn was higher or as high as schools with far stronger engineering programs (MIT and Cornell lower, Stanford and Caltech equal) on my final list of schools because it seems like the place I really would enjoy the most, both in the short and long run.</p>
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<p>hell yell brother. Maybe Booth should let Wharton take over the global economy for the next 50 years.</p>
<p>GO PENN NURSING. WOOOT!! lol</p>
<p>Chrisw - you got into Penn, but no money from BU and not Schreyer’s honors? That’s kind of weird.</p>
<p>You don’t have to have such a firm reason for applying to Penn (unless it’s ED). If you get in, the question to post would be: “Why did you choose Penn?”</p>
<p>Also, I would encourage you not to look only at location when deciding on Penn. By that, I mean that proximity to your home should not be a factor (college is wonderful experience of independence) and the city factor should not be the all-deciding one because, although I like that Penn is in a city and you have access to all of the city’s resources, you must realize that Penn is more of a “bubble” within a city. It’s a relatively small campus that essentially forms a circle and that is quite isolated from the surrounding city. I love it, but that’s a personal thing.</p>
<p>*Chrisw - you got into Penn, but no money from BU and not Schreyer’s honors? That’s kind of weird. *</p>
<p>Yeah, it is weird. I mean in my graduating year from HS (2007) we had all sorts of kids get rejected from SHC (one kid has straight As and was a four sport all-Catholic athlete, including all-American swimming; one had a 4.2 GPA and was all kinds of involved; only one kid got in from my school). For BU, they’re stingy on their money, as other friends have told me. Also, I live in the city of Philadelphia, which helps get into Penn. Had a couple other things going for me.</p>
<p>By that, I mean that proximity to your home should not be a factor (college is wonderful experience of independence)</p>
<p>I highly disagree! You don’t need to be 3,000 miles away from home to feel like you’re independent. Living very close to home is convenient since I can go home if I feel like it. On breaks it only costs $2.20 to get from my door at Penn to my door at home. Friends who have different spring breaks than I do can come visit me for the night and it’s no big deal. Proximity to your home should always be a factor; if you don’t mind being far away, then that’s great! A lot of people, however, do mind being far from home, and that is completely reasonable.</p>