<p>Philadelphia is a great city. The only problem is for some reason, some students (a small minority) are fairly vocal about their negative opinion of it. It is not more dangerous than any other big city, except that unlike places like Chicago, it is more integrated and there is less of a divide between different groups.
The only time I really thought of the Wharton students as a separate group was during OCR (definitely not completely true) because it really brings out the worst in the campus. Frankly, I don’t care about business AT ALL, even though I could probably go into investment banking if I wanted to due to the very quantitative nature of my major. However, I have absolutely no interest and most of my friends (many in my major or similar majors) want to go into academia, which is pretty much the polar opposite of business. And Penn helps us thrive by providing us with tons of research opportunities and the chance to take grad courses and even submatriculate. There are even awards in the sciences which are only open to people in the specific major.</p>