<p>I don’t know if I would say Wharton students have a very high level of math achievement- the raw ability may be there, but the interest to pursue it further in college is not. Virtually no Wharton undergrads study proof-based math.</p>
<p>Indeed, besides M&T grads (who are comparable to top 15% students at Harvard/MIT/Stanford), I haven’t met too many Wharton grads who’ve taken math beyond calc II and the required non-calc stats sequence. That said, Wharton students are very smart and maneuver themselves to get the best jobs of any grads in the Ivies. </p>
<p>Investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, etc. is dominated by Wharton grads- in banking, it is highly unlikely that you will not have worked for a Wharton-educated boss at some point in your career. For other elite industries like hedge funds and private equity- no school, not even Harvard, can match Wharton. I don’t frankly understand why employers value Wharton students so highly, even over applied math grads at Harvard who have certainly taken tougher classes in their college careers.</p>