Penn vs Georgetown Social Experience

Cue7
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:21:35 +0000

@Penn95 and @monydad - UPenn struggled, no doubt, in the times @Penn95 describes, but it had two crown jewels - - Wharton and an excellent medical school - that really allowed it to thrive in ways Cornell could not. For one, when the times changed, there was a source of $$ (Wharton grads have given back to their alma mater, and it’s easier to raise vast sums of money for a medical plant - just look at what Hopkins can do).

More general trends have helped, but Penn has done a good job of leveraging their chief assets for the benefit of the university overall (they can tie so much into Wharton - be in engineering, int’l relations, whatever), and the med plant has enjoyed good leadership and the general swing toward massive levels of support for med plants.