Went a different school, similarly priced. It would have.
Adding to these points (about Penn not being as highly considered as, say, Swarthmore or Haverford), I believe that in the 60s-70s, Wharton had a roughly 50% admission rate - if you had half decent grades and we’re the child (son) of a solid businessman, you were in.
Lots of “rich/old” East coast colleges saw that their urban surroundings were a problem to attracting the students they wanted and they worked with the city or community to improve things, while taking security measures.
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I started at Texas in the fall of 88. Back then, you were an auto-admit if you were in the top 10% of your class and had at least an 1100 SAT. No essays. You could major in whatever you wanted. It is a radically different process now.
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Daughter is going into her junior year at Holy Cross, and while we’re from MA and thus not flying to campus, friends of hers from further away fly to Logan a fair amount but also to Providence (PVD). It’s roughly equidistant from Worcester (about an hour drive), less of a headache to travel in/out of, and I think can often be cheaper.
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A plug for flying through Providence.
Added to this - for kids going to Worcester from points south, Amtrak runs a train to Providence then an Amtrak bus to Worcester. It’s appreciably more reliable than taking Amtrak all the way to Boston then taking the T to Worcester because there are lots of random outages due to weather (rain and snow storms) between Providence and Boston. But from DC you can get deals for an Acela to Providence then the bus to Worcester and it’s easy and comfortable.
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When my daughter had a weekend at Smith, we flew in and out of Providence. Originally scheduled because my uncle lived closer to that airport and we were going to spend a night with him, but he got sick and we stuck with the plan. It was easy.
He always preferred the Providence airport to Logan. There weren’t as many direct flights to places he wanted to go to, but parking and size made it better for him.