<p>This isn’t a debate or anything like that, but in what USWN categories does Penn outscore its peers s/t it ranks so high?</p>
<p>Selectivity its #4, it must have something to do with top 10% in class because %accepted and SAT ranges are lower than the rest of the top ten.</p>
<p>Faculty resources is another.</p>
<p>Not sure what it is, but yay!</p>
<p>Penn also scores comparatively high in alumni giving rate, i suppose</p>
<p>Also Penn is awesome. Clearly they’ve captured that somehow in the ranking, though I’m not exactly sure under which category they quantified it…</p>
<p>USNWR rankings are so last month.</p>
<p>Penn is #4 because we are here.
That is all for now.</p>
<p>Turns out Penn’s selectivity is #6…that’s what I get for trusting a Penn student to list selectivity lol.</p>
<p>Penn’s faculty resources is ranked #1! yay!</p>
<p>Does ‘faculty resources’ mean resources for the faculty to use, or is it rating the faculty as a resource to the students?</p>
<p>to the students…it means Penn students can date their professors. That’s what “resources” implies.</p>
<p>Maybe you 32 year old ones can ;)</p>
<p>lol…:D</p>
<p>Seriously though, “Faculty Resources” usually implies that the professors have access to world-renowned research programs/facilities, as well as contacts to leaders of each field outside of the university, which translates into the students being able to obtain/have access to first-class information and knowledge through their professors.</p>
<p>Faculty resource is based on faculty salary (adjusted to region), class sizes, faculty:student ratio, and percent of faculty with Doctoral degrees.</p>