Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater

Re:Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater by rollo_tommasi on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:36PM (#5628982)

You should be prouder, UPenn is one of the best state schools in the country!

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Re:Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater by hkmurakami on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:40PM (#5629003)

By what measure which we can trust?

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Re:Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater by carbocation on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:43PM (#5629035)

It'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.

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Re:Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater by mori32 on Monday April 29, 2013 @06:02PM (#5629138)

Once 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.

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Re:Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater by hkmurakami on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:51PM (#5629075)

Oh 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)

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Re:Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater by rayiner on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:53PM (#5629088)

RIP JoePa.

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