When was the last time you walked down Chestnut, passed 34th and watched the signs turn from red and blue to blue and yellow? Was it for a burger at Shake Shack or stuffed Challah french toast at Sabrina’s? Maybe you bypassed it all and headed to 30th Street Station or Center City. Penn and Drexel may be just blocks apart, but given our level of interaction, you’d never know that.
So how does the other half of University City live? This week, Street hit their campus to do some digging. We collected and edited over 140 survey responses and spent some time on the streets of Drexel interviewing anyone would would talk to us. Now you know what Drexel actually thinks about you.
Drexel, as a school, is.....
a business
a depression machine
fast-paced
a landgrab disguised as an academic institutional right
a good way to get a job
amazing
awesome
a construction zone
expensive
like Penn but more chill.
run like a business
fantastic: full of resources and up-and-coming
insular
slowly making a name for itself
the nation's oldest up-and-coming university
Drexel students are.....
a mixed bag
ambitious
an even split between people who care a lot and people who really don't.
average
busy and tired
diverse
dragons!
emotionally dead
hardworking
here for the co-op
in a constant drunk/hungover cycle. Seriously, all these sirens...
jaded
rambunctious
rich, entitled, hipsters, black, white, Asian, Indian, and everything inbetween
weird
sometimes too focused on industry instead of carving their own road.
Penn and Drexel are both.....
aware of each other
big/little brother
challenging
full of geeky kids--maybe less so at Penn
good schools
great schools Drexel is better
in Philly
kinda mean to each other.
too expensive
less important than they think
The first word that comes to mind when I think of Penn is.....
a fancier-looking campus (from the outside)
assholes
Chipotle
easiest Ivy League School to gain admission into
entitled
ivory towers
Ivy League
money
my cousin goes there. She's just better than us.
overrated
parties
pretentious
rich
smart
state
Wharton
Penn, as a school, is........
a bubble
a cultivator of white collar criminals
academically forward
beautiful
Better than Drexel
elite
filled with rich kids
haunted
historic
loud, at least the party houses near my apartment, especially during September.
made for students
overpriced
prestigious
stuffy
superior
Students who go to Penn are....
a bit snobby
achievers
annoylingly in shape
stuck up
better dressed
classy
cocky, pompus
either super smart or have a trust fund
full of themselves
generally not people I would call friends
hardworking
Homogeneous
International, or affluent, or extremely intelligent receiving academic scholarship
like any other college student
partying more than they did in high school
preppy
privileged
rich
slow walkers who take up the entire sidewalk
smart
the brightest in the country academically. They're pushed too hard in impractical ways in their undergraduate classes, but they know how to make a future for themselves.
trying a lot harder than everyone at Drexel.
uninteresting
Drexel is more __________ than Penn.
"city"
advanced
alcoholic
career oriented
based in reality
blue collar
depressing
expensive
fun
hood
down to earth
innovative
intense
low key
modern
nouveau
diverse
religious
technical
well rounded
Drexel is less ________ than Penn.
preppy
acknowledged
arrogant
challenging
cohesive
developed (in terms of eating and stuff)
school spirited
focused on the humanities
of a namedropping school
old money
prestigious
square footage
swanky
uppity
Special thanks to Drexel's student newspaper, The Triangle, and Humans of Drexel University for helping with this survey
*These survey results have been edited and condensed.
