Penn vs Georgetown Social Experience

Penn95
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 02:48:29 +0000

@Cue7
I think it is pretty clear that HYPSM plays at a different level, I don’t think this is really up for debate. I can’t find any piece of data or even anecdotal evidence from my experience that would lead me to believe otherwise.

I agree these are first-world problems but many students face those dilemmas every year and without fail they tend to choose a specific way for some pretty well-known reasons. The reasons a HYPSM - Penn cross admit will most likely choose HYPSM are more or less similar to the reasons a Penn - GU cross-admit will most likely choose Penn. The reasons being 1. prestige 2. strength in their areas of interest.

My theory is that the kind of people who strive for the top schools consider fit as a primary determinant only when looking at schools with similar 1. overall prestige and 2. academic strength in what they want to study. At least this is how my classmates at my east coast prep school chose colleges and how many of my friends at Penn chose as well.