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anyone here choose penn college over dartmouth? why? what are the pros and cons? thx

By Muppetcoat (Muppetcoat) on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 11:30 am: Edit

Dartmouth is in the Middle of Freaking Nowhere...

Also, they have the granite of New Hampshire in their muscles and their brains.

By Fingercuffs2006 (Fingercuffs2006) on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 12:39 pm: Edit

I did.
All it came down to was the difference between Philadelphia and Hanover. Plus I like a larger school than Dartmouth's. That's pretty much it. Nothing deeper than that.

By Pacificali04 (Pacificali04) on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 04:55 pm: Edit

i did. more undergrad focus at dartmouth

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 08:31 am: Edit

is Penn college less selective than Dartmouth?

By Stanfordman99 (Stanfordman99) on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 12:54 pm: Edit

Yes but only slightly.

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 03:47 am: Edit

bump

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Monday, September 20, 2004 - 03:28 am: Edit

bump

By Nirvanarageatm (Nirvanarageatm) on Monday, September 20, 2004 - 02:10 pm: Edit

my friend's dad went to dartmouth, his sister goes there, he was semi-recruited for soccer, had 3.8 UW, 1440 SAT, above 700 SAT II's, applied early to dartmouth, got deferred, but he got into Penn and goes there now

By Nirvanarageatm (Nirvanarageatm) on Monday, September 20, 2004 - 02:11 pm: Edit

oh and he eventually did get rejected by dartmouth

By Reject (Reject) on Monday, September 20, 2004 - 04:55 pm: Edit

Hey all you Penn hopefuls:

I hope you all are getting through the admission process okay [i no i didnt]. Anyway, i have a little bit of time on my hands, so i open to reading/editing anyone's essay on Why Penn or the other essays. People last year help me edit on this site so i guess i feel obligated to do so myself. I know some of you might not want to post your essays on this site, so feel free to email me if you would like.

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By Bmwlegacy1 (Bmwlegacy1) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 12:18 am: Edit

bumpity bump bump

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 06:51 am: Edit

from all the info i've compiled, Dartmouth is slightly more prestigious and selective than Penn College. But what Penn has that Dartmouth does not is Philadelphia.

By Sauronone (Sauronone) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 04:11 pm: Edit

wharton over dartmouth any day.

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 10:14 pm: Edit

we're discussing penn college, not wharton

By Momsdream (Momsdream) on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 12:08 am: Edit

Why do you believe that Dartmouth is more selective than Penn?

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 07:46 am: Edit

lower acceptance rate and smaller student body. the main reason i think dartmouth is slightly more selective than penn is that penn accepts 50% of its student body through ED while dartmouth accepts only about 35%, and plus lower acceptance rate.

By Momsdream (Momsdream) on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 01:50 pm: Edit

The acceptance rates are so skewed by various factors, they aren't reliable on their own merit. I also don't think a smaller student body makes a school more selective. If the median SATs, GPA, class ranks, etc are the same, which they are for Penn and Dartmouth, then they are both equally as selective....both have equally talented students...Penn just has a LOT more of them. Also, Penn is much larger, therefore graduating more students per year. This creates a much larger legacy pool from which to draw incoming students. Penn encourages qualified legacies to apply early, which may explain the large ED %. I've heard that Penn receives more URM applicants than most of the other Ivies. URM scores are typically on the lower end of Penn's stats (scores, GPAs, etc). Thus, Penn likes to firm up a VERY selective ED population so that it can take risks in the RD round, such as with some of the less credentialed URMs.

OTOH, with Penn's size and location, I bet they get their fair share of very competitively credentialed URMs, as well.

I think my point is that between Penn and Dartmouth, I don't see evidence that one is more selective than the other.

By Knightmare (Knightmare) on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 03:18 pm: Edit

I think this thread is like splitting hairs. You can kinda divide the ivies into two ranges of selectivity: on the one hand, you have Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia College, and Wharton...and on the other range is everything else.

By Momsdream (Momsdream) on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 04:29 pm: Edit

I'm still waiting for the day when students worry more about selecting colleges than colleges selecting them......empowerment is a wonderful thing.

By Kimfuge (Kimfuge) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 06:50 am: Edit

I would put Columbia College with the latter (tier).