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Penn's not really the level of school that will be that much better over a flagship state school. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and maybe a few more are that level.

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The median Penn grad ends up making a bit more money than the median Stanford grad and less than the median MIT grad. They all make considerably more than a Berkeley grad, who makes considerably more than someone from Iowa State University.

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> Penn's not really the level of school that will be that much better over a flagship state school. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and maybe a few more are that level.

Pretty sure Wharton fits in with the profiles you mentioned.

The College… yeah, sounds about right (maybe a flagship state school honors program).

Penn students apply to a specific school, so the student body profile of each school is quite different (sometimes to almost comically different degrees).

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