<p>My dad thinks he read in the newspapers that though U of Penn is private, it still receives state funding and must accept at least 25% of in-state students. I think he is getting confused with Penn State, because I doubt an ivy-league university needs more funding. Who is right?
Also, he thinks the same is true for Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>No, Penn is completely private. The only Ivy League school that receives state funding is Cornell.</p>
<p>Penn has always been private. No state money.</p>
<p>Penn State doesn’t even get that much state money anymore. I think I heard it’s only about 7% of their budget.</p>
<p>Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine gets a significant amount of state money in exchange for a certain number of guaranteed spaces for Pennsylvania residents (it’s the only vet school in the state, and one of only about 25 nationwide, and states with large animal husbandry industries need veterinarians).</p>
<p>Beyond that exception, Penn is indeed completely private.</p>
<p>And incidentally, less than 17% of Penn undergraduates are from Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Most Veterinary Medicine schools are state funded and give preference to in-state students or students from nearby states through agreements. This seems to be unique to Veterinary schools. I read somewhere it was because there weren’t that many schools, and a lot of the them are in agricultural states where there was a need for animal husbandry.</p>
<p>Almost all accredited schools (Hillsdale and Grove City only exceptions that come to mind and I heard that GC has capitulated) receive state and federal funding of some sort. I don’t know what the amount and sorts of funding that cause a shift to a category where they are no longer considered state schools. But, yes, UPenn , though a private school, does get government monies in some form as do all of the ivies and and nearly all of the colleges.</p>
<p>^^^ haha 45 Percenter, read it somewhere other than the post above me too ;-)</p>
<p>The school definitely gets federal/state funding for research, don’t think that necessarily translates to in-state spots, however.</p>
<p>17% from a single state is still a lot! That’s 1 out of every 6 students (though it would be interesting to see what percent of applicants are from PA as well)</p>
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It’s NOT a lot when you consider that Pennsylvania is the 6th most populous state in the country with a population of almost 13 million. By comparison, 17% of Princeton undergrads are from New Jersey (the 11th most populous state with a population of about 9 million), 14% of Harvard undergrads are from Massachusetts (the 14th most populous state with a population of 6.5 million), 25% of Columbia undergrads are from New York (the 3rd most populous state with a population of about 19.5 million), 20% of Northwestern undergrads and 19% of University of Chicago undergrads are from Illinois (the 5th most populous state with a population of about 13 million), and 43% of Stanford undergrads are from California (the most populous state with a population of almost 38 million). So Penn’s 17% from Pennsylvania is right in line with the comparable percentages of home-state undergrads at its peers also located in populous states.</p>
<p>And incidentally, can you guess which state produces the largest number of applicants to Penn? It isn’t Pennsylvania. It’s California. :)</p>
<p>Interesting. Do you know what percent of Penn students are from Cali?</p>
<p>^ 9.4% of the Class of 2015 is from California:</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>