<p>It's about 100-120 people per class who transfer. If you consider that non Whartons at Penn are about 2000 people per class, you're looking at about one half of one percent of people in each class who transfer into Wharton. Thats a pretty small number. Also, not everyone uses SAS as a back door. There are a fair number of engineers who get into Wharton. I doubt that you can call it backdooring when you take a year of chem, physics, and math compared to SAS students who are able to take much cushier classes. </p>
<p>Honestly, with such tough standards for transferring, it just isn't worth it to walk into Penn with the soul purpose to transfer into Wharton.</p>
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It's about 100-120 people per class who transfer. If you consider that non Whartons at Penn are about 2000 people per class, you're looking at about one half of one percent of people in each class who transfer into Wharton.
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<p>No transfer to Wharton for you! The financial system is in bad enough shape without foisting people who can't tell the difference between 50 basis points (0.5%) and 500 basis points (5.0%) on it! </p>
<p>100 is 5% of 2,000, not 0.5%. Five percent (+) is a pretty big number to transfer between the schools, and transfers must represent a sizable portion of the Wharton undergraduate population. Of course, that doesn't make it any smarter to apply to Penn CAS with the intention of trying to transfer to Wharton later, rather than applying to Wharton.</p>
<p>^I guess I threw in an extra zero in the calculator (which is why I really should stop using them). Just be glad I'm not managing your money (yet).</p>
<p>I just have one question regarding this. I prefer Wharton over CAS but what if my ECs are pretty science based(USABO two time semifinalist, Nuclear Physics Research, science awards). Should I apply to CAS then. The only business ec, if you can even say that,I have is that I've been a self employed fish breeder for the last two years(lots of budget balancing, and yield stuff). Currently, I am also interested in the Jerome Fischer program. If I apply to M&T would i be competitive?
My brief stats: SAT 1540/2290, SAT II 800 chem, 800 math II, 790 Bio
Rank #1, GPA 4.0, National AP Scholar, National merit smeifinalist, Volunteering awards</p>