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  2. University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained ...

  3. These 8 US colleges are more selective than some Ivy League ...

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    Its acceptance rate is lower than Cornell's, Dartmouth's, UPenn's, and Brown's. University of Chicago — 7.6% The 125-year-old school is situated in Chicago's Hyde Park community.

  4. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [20] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  5. University of Pennsylvania Law School - Wikipedia

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    Golkin Hall on the University of Pennsylvania Law School campus in West Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania campus covers over 269 acres (~1 km 2) in a contiguous area of West Philadelphia's University City district. All of Penn's schools, including the law school, and most of its research institutes are located on this campus.

  6. Did Trump go to Wharton School of Business? A look at his ...

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    While specific acceptance rates for Penn in the 1960s are not available, they were “slightly greater than 40%” in the 1980s, according to the university’s website.

  7. Wharton School - Wikipedia

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    The Wharton School (/ ˈ hw ɔːr t ən / WHOR-tən) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia.Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school.

  8. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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    Formally established as a department in 1893 [2] and a school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1915, [3] Penn GSE has historically had research strengths in teaching and learning, the cultural contexts of education, language education, human development, quantitative research methods, and practitioner inquiry. Katharine Strunk is the ...

  9. University of Pennsylvania College of Arts & Sciences

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    The college's facilities are located on the University of Pennsylvania's University City campus, especially in College Hall, which houses its administrative and admissions offices. [ 6 ] Van Pelt Library , the University of Pennsylvania's main library, is home to more than 2,481,000 volumes, 13,000 current serial subscriptions, and ...