Why would someone choose Penn over Princeton?

Penn is a much larger place with more diverse postgraduate programs. For example, if you want to study natural language processing (NLP), Princeton doesn't have any professors specializing in that. Penn has 4-6 (depending on how you count). There some research experiences that you simply cannot get at Princeton. read more

In my experience at Penn practically all or most people who have turned down Princeton for Penn (or Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale) are all people enrolled at Penn's very prestigious dual degree programs (M&T, LSM, Huntsman) and in some cases (much fewer than the former 3) the Vagelos, VIPER programs. read more

While historically it may seem that Harvard is a more prestigious school i think someone would choose Princeton over Harvard for so many reasons . I’ll give you my take from a personal point of view .I applied to Princeton , Colombia and Penn . read more

there are many reasons why very few people that have had the same choices for college you do, pick penn over brown and princeton. the weak reason most people choose princeton and brown over penn because princeton and brown are harder to get into. the stronger reason is because the cultures at princeton or brown appeal to them more. read more