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I agree. Talking about schools and their rankings is very counterproductive. It measures the wrong metrics. I went to Wharton/Penn for undergrad, which favors
by dillonforrest 13y ago
I agree. Talking about schools and their rankings is very counterproductive. It measures the wrong metrics.
I went to Wharton/Penn for undergrad, which favors me in these kinds of surveys, but I'm still against them.
- rayiner 13y agoPeople who don't care about rankings don't usually go to the trouble of distinguishing Wharton from Penn (i.e. "Penn wasn't the highest ranked school I got into.") /light hearted jab
- rollo_tommasi 13y agoYou should be prouder, UPenn is one of the best state schools in the country!
- hkmurakami 13y agoBy what measure which we can trust?
- carbocation 13y agoIt's an Ivy jab. UPenn is a private institution, hence the joke. The lore is that UPenn students are offended when people refer to their alma mater as Penn State, which is a state-funded institution. Edit: I have no affiliation with either institution and think it's all irrelevant, other than from a cultural awareness perspective.
- hkmurakami 13y agoOh whoops totally missed the state school phrase! (and I know the joke too!) (imo Penn State is a fine - as in very good - engineering school)
- mori32 13y agoOnce you actually study at multiple universities in these rankings you realize what a joke it is. I can't believe Penn is ranked so highly, outside of Wharton. I was recently there for CS coming from a UK top 5 in CS and Penn CIS was a joke. Also, Oxford > Cambridge for CS? Wat. When you get to about the top 50 universities, it becomes so specific to the strengths of the particular department that these universities really can't be ranked in a single field.
- rayiner 13y agoRIP JoePa.