The University of Pennsylvania

Date: Mar 10 2008
Major: Neuroscience/Cognitive Science (This Major's Salary over time)
Fantastic. Penn is the ideal college campus. It has a large, but continuous campus which feels very collegiate, small and isolated, but is also located a few minutes from the second largest city on the east coast. Some, who have no interest in an urban environment, stay on campus for the majority of their undergraduate years. Others go downtown regularly for food, exhibits, nightlife etc. Either way, one has a mountain of opportunities both on and off campus.

I also find that it is just the right size. Big enough so that we actually have top-ranking graduate programs which yield a grand university feel, but small enough that when walking down Locust Walk, you see many friends on the walk to class. It is also big enough so it doesn't feel like high school transposed onto a college campus (see: Dartmouth, Williams, Middlebury et al).

Anyone can find their niche at this establishment. And anyone who hasn't has probably put in zero effort, this isn't a place that babies you like you're 14. Yes we have class parties, and New Student Orientation for freshmen is extensive, but Penn mostly takes a laissez-faire attitude in student life. Most clubs and organizations are student organized and run, and students are treated like the adults they are.