Embarrassing: Penn Has 18% of the Total Break Days That Cornell Does

After the DP published a story about how short Penn's mid-semester breaks are how that may affect mental health on campus, we at UTB decided to do some digging. We checked the academic calendars of all the other Ivy League schools (yes, Cornell is an Ivy) to see how Penn's breaks stack up with those of its peers. The numbers, below, are shocking. These numbers do not include summer break.

Yes, you read that right. According to our calculations, Cornell is just .5 days short of having a full half-year worth of breaks during the school year— and, again, that isn't counting summer. Dartmouth and Brown aren't far behind, each with more than 145 days of break during the school year.

When peer institutions have breaks like these, it's hard to see why Penn's breaks are so short.