<p>^ It sounds like the root of much of this was your financial aid being slashed, as you put it (for whatever reason that occurred). That’s a very unusual situation. Penn has been raising its annual financial aid budget by tens of millions of dollars over the past few years, and at least $350 million of the ongoing Making History capital campaign is committed to further increasing undergraduate finanical aid. I know from personal experience as an alum that increasing undergraduate financial aid is one of the most important priorities of Penn’s fundraising (Amy Gutmann seems to talk about it more than anything else at alumni events).</p>
<p>So hopefully, your personal experience has become even more atypical than it was when you were there a few years ago.</p>