Penn: The Social Ivy

ivyrow15
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:04:40 +0000

“The three schools went through a massive resurgence, one that I chronicled more carefully in my unfortunately-lost post. The renaissance is impossible to overstate; these 3 undergraduate programs went from educating the bottom-ranked graduates of Philips Exeter and Harvard-Westlake and local scholarship cases, to attracting the best students internationally and ranking among the top-5 annually”.

My first post so I hate to come across like a super elitist, but…

I hope nobody on the west coast has the impression that Harvard-Westlake is widely considered a peer school of Phillips Exeter. Sorry. Ouch. That was really painful to admit btw as I am an Andover/Stanford grad from San Diego :). My nutty west coast friends and their silly delusions. I suppose they may be similiar in ivy matriculation as I often hear that point made when some folks compare quality secondary schools. The problem is most east coast prep schools kids now are preferring top LACS as well as Stanford,MIT,Cal Tech over IVY’s. They are widely held to provide a better undergrad education by counselor’s,students and even some old school parents. Princeton and PENN might be comparable to LACS and the others schools I mentioned but certainly not the rest of the IVY’s that have great grad schools but overrated undergrad (see Harvard etc.)