<p>I have been to Penn and have to say that I absolutely loved it – as cliche as it may sound, it just “clicked.” I know that I am going to apply ED to Penn in the fall but I cannot decide whether to apply to the college or to wharton. I think that I would rather be somewhere at Penn then not be, so that is where I am tending towards the College, but I just loved everything about wharton. Any help would be extremely appreciated.</p>
<p>i guess it all just depends on what you want to major in. if you're undecided...i'd suggest the college for two reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>easier to get into than wharton</li>
<li>if you decide you want to major in something else, you can switch, although it's hard, it's not impossible</li>
</ol>
<p>I'd say the same thing if undecided.</p>
<p>The college is only 1% easier to get into than Wharton, as data indicated on a previous thread. You should not, therefore, base your decision on which school is easier to get into since they are at virtually the same level.</p>
<p>If you want Wharton, apply to Wharton. Don't worry about how hard it is to get in anywhere - that should not determine where you apply. Your enthusiasm for the school will show through in your essay, and if you are ED it helps because that on it's own shows how much you want it. Don't forget to talk about Penn too though. That's a common mistake.</p>
<p>and it isn't 1% easier. more people apply for the colleve so they might have room for someone wharton would have (unfairly) rejected. also, you can't compare admission rates. UChicago has around a 50% admission rate. UCLA has something like a fifth of that (slightly more) yet you can't say strait facedthat UCLA is better than UChicago.</p>
<p>I agree, but just fixing numbers: 21.3% acceptance at the College, 13.6% at Wharton</p>
<p>It all depends on your interests. If you want business, do Wharton. If not, then do college unless you want to be stuck taking biz courses as a requirement.</p>
<p>It is plainly untrue to say that Wharton students are wholly superior to College students. After all, the most brilliant people I know at Penn are in the College, not Wharton.</p>
<p>Brilliant determined how? Original ideas? Test scores? Statistically, Wharton students tend to have higher scores than College students.</p>
<p>And statistically, I score higher than most Wharton students. Yet I'm in the college. Brilliance isn't something that can be quantified. Like porn, one "knows it when [he/she] see[s] it."</p>
<p>Do you think that the following scores (just considering scores) would be in the Wharton range?</p>
<p>SAT I: CR680, M780, W700
SAT II:
Chemistry-750
Math 2C-780
Math 1C-750
Spanish-660
(writing-700 & writing-640)</p>
<p>There are several people who would have gotten into Penn had they applied to the College. Take my school val (haosquared)- 4.0 gpa, 1600 SAT, SAT IIs in the 780-800 range, tons of APs. gets waitlisted at Wharton, as well as at Havard, Stanford, and Columbia. I dare say she'd have gotten into the College. Tis ok, cause she is a Presidential Scholar at Cornell.</p>
<p>I am so disappointed that Haosquared won't be coming to Penn with me -- I wanted to meet her :(</p>
<p>hao was w/l-ed!? =(</p>
<p>dang. everytime i read about admissions statistics or amazing ppl who didn't get in i feel really lucky/thankful/appreciative.</p>