Penn Tuition & FA budget 2018-2019

runswimyoga
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:41:22 +0000

As the parent of a Penn student (Wharton) who doesn’t receive any aid, but far from feeling comfortable while paying this tuition, I want to share a possibly unknown silver lining here w regards to tuition/graduation.

The graduation requirements aren’t super stringent so somehow through taking 5 courses a semester and getting courses that count for double triple etc my son is able to either graduate a semester early or only need two courses last semester senior year for which Penn lets you enroll as a part time student and only pay $5000k per class. He knows lots of other Wharton students doing this. He could have easily taken 5.5 - 6 courses a semester and graduated early.

So you may be able to get a break in the outrageous cost of tuition at Penn yet…