<p>What really makes it better than the rest?</p>
<p>PHILADELPHIA! And Wharton is the best business school in the country.</p>
<p>I was accepted ED to CAS. For me, what really makes Penn is the community and rigor of academics. Penn is so much more involved in the community than other schools, and its students are PASSIONATE people (not HYP droids). It was founded by Ben Franklin and is based on his principles; he was born a middle-class man and made himself successful. </p>
<p>Also, Penn has 700+ natural science labs (200 of which are biochemistry-related) and 7 currently living Nobel laureates–that’s more than at HYP. If you are going in for biochemsitry (like me), the opportunity of being part of the Vagelos Molecular Life Science scholars program is AMAZING (you COULD get your BA in biochem and MS in chemistry in FOUR years; I know nowhere else where you can do this).</p>
<p>There is just so much about Penn to love. Wharton is the number one business school, and it is cool to say that Warren Buffet and Donald Trump went to Penn.</p>
<p>see:[List</a> of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_affiliated_with_the_University_of_Pennsylvania]List”>List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Stress on interdisciplinary learning (coordinated dual-degree programs) and the “applied learning” concept. Through learning, I want to somehow impact the community around me (sounds cliche but it’s the truth!)</p>