<p>lovemom - Penn doesn’t have the med placement stats listed online. Please keep in mind, med school admissions is a totally different beast than law admissions - just getting into ANY med school is an accomplishment, and even top schools can’t send dozens and dozens to the top medical schools.</p>
<p>Also, I agree with what a lot of the posters have said, you can’t discount engineering, wharton ug, etc. when looking at placement rate - you have to look at the school as a whole. Just as Wharton probably buoys Penn in some rankings, you can’t just leave it out in other rankings. </p>
<p>With that in mind, I think all the WSJ report really shows is how, after the very very top schools (Harvard, Princeton, etc.), there is a lot of clustering. Dartmouth, Columbia, Chicago, Brown, Penn etc. are all clustered together pretty tightly. This shows that, at any top 10-15 school, one’s performance matters more than anything else. </p>
<p>Final note, lovemom, don’t worry too much about Penn getting confused for Penn State, etc. Penn’s a great school, and in the professional world, world of prof grad school admissions, etc., it’s a known and valued commodity. The general population only knows like a half dozen schools. Penn is right in the pack with the other ivies, Northwestern, Duke, etc.</p>