<p>ok, this is probably a stupid question, but I just needed some clarification.
If you are interested in a business major at the school, do you appy to wharton itself, or the college at upenn? And if you are accepted at the college, can you move into wharton?</p>
<p>Business majors apply to Wharton. If you're accepted at the College it's very difficult to transfer and not many people are able to do it.
The adcoms are generally good at finding out who is using the College as a backdoor into Wharton and they don't look kindly on it. If you want business, apply to the BUSINESS school.</p>
<p>But why go to Wharton undergrad, since you'll be going to b-school anyway probably?</p>
<p>Since Wharton is soo leet only about 30% of W-grads go on for an MBA. I still dont think you understand how awesome Wharton is.</p>
<p>ok, here's what i heard. if you go to wharton undergrad and get some business degree there, you need not to go to business grad because corps and companies know wharton gives such a good education that it can basically match up to any mba degree you get from grad school. only a few people (like 2 or something) from wharton undergrad actually matriculate into the grad school to get an mba.</p>
<p>also if you want to mayhbe do lawschool for grad</p>
<p>and also... an MBA mainly focuses on management (masters of business administration) so ie if you want to go into real estate or be an investment banker etc, undergrad business is the way to go</p>
<p>It seems like going to Wharton undergrad would be too narrow.</p>
<p>THat's why you do joint degree programs like me =P... or go to a school where you can move around like hyp(e) where they don't have specific undergrad schools and you can move around. If you don't want it don't apply</p>
<p>Thats how I like it Yalebound. All I really want to do is finance (with a minor in mathematics) and Wharton is the best for finance....so I want to attend The Wharton School.</p>
<p>people from wharton go to med school but i wonder if medschools take into account how hard wharton is.</p>
<p>i dont get why anyone with such an amazing business background that theyd instantly make six figures first year out of college would put themselves thru med school. seems totally superfluous</p>
<p>Not many go on to medical school. I am going to guess the ones that do are probably future Venture Capitalists who invest in healthcare/pharma/biotech companies and need the technical knowhow. Kind of like the traders that eventually get masters in computational finance or PhDs in mathematics or computational finance.</p>
<p>uhh I don't think you make 6 figures out of the gate from wharton its more like 65,000</p>
<p>hedge fund kids first year make 125 from wharton apparently</p>
<p>hedge fund?</p>
<p>hedge fund kids either make 0 or 125.</p>
<p>thethoughtprocess....no not hedge fund kids outta college. Most have a base salary of about 50-60K. The management of the hedge fund take this into consideration with a 2-3% management fee which is always consistent. So it can range from 60K-125K. Actually I know someone with a 141K package.</p>
<p>well the average salary for wharton is about 55k coming out...however the average yearly bonus in ibanking is like 30k plus you get a signing bonus of like 15k so coming out of wharton (since many do ibanking) they'll be making 100k (give or take a little 10-15k). The next year you won't have the signing bonus but your salary and bonuses will probably increase. Consulting salaries are similar (bonuses are not as good) so you're looking at like 85kish.</p>
<p>btw, a goldman sachs recruiter gave me some of the figures for average bonuses, etc.</p>