Penn vs WashU

Poeme
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:49:14 +0000

Well every school is going to have some cutthroat people (a lot of the premeds are cutthroat everywhere to be honest), but the students at Penn are for the most part okay in that regard. In my science major, people didn’t compete with each other and I often would check homework with my friends. Even in majors where people tend to be more competitive, there are always cool down to earth people you can find. The student population is big enough that there is quite a wide range of personalities.

When people say Penn is stressful and competitve, it has more to do with internal pressure people put on themselves. People all hold themselves to very high standards here, which was the case in my major. People weren’t asking other people how they did in classes but were instead stressing out about their own performance.