Penn vs Georgetown Social Experience

Cue7
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:07:44 +0000

@Penn95 - well, can you then educate @PennCAS2014 on the differences between UPenn and the HYPMS schools? Because @PennCAS2014 says that, outside of endowment resources, s/he doesn’t see much difference.

I’ll just close by saying “overall prestige” can change - sometimes quickly. Imo, outside of HYPMS (who have been held in high regard for sometime, and even here Stanford is a newer comer), there is some churn amongst the top schools.

If you look at the 80s, 90s, 00s, and now, schools tend to rise and fall as little bit. At one time, Dartmouth Williams and Amherst clearly held rank over many top urban schools. Chicago was a backup for northwestern. Penn and cornell were doormat ivies. Hopkins was a far cry in selectivity from Georgetown. (I mean in terms of perceived pecking order, I think such characterizations are silly.)

Now, a lot has changed, but who’s to say it won’t change in the future?

The schools with the most consistent top reps over decades seem to be hypms. That’s why I give a nod to those schools. BUT you can throw that out the window too - a college decision sticks for a long time. Don’t make it based on a factor that could readily change later, if the schools are roughly in the same band (And I think both upenn and Georgetown are in the top 1% - even if you could quibble about where in the top 1% they are).