<p>I’m a first year SEAS student. Is it just me or does anyone feel that Upenn doesn’t treat every student equally?
I feel like wharton students are the elite student/first rate citizen on campus. They have the best facilities on campus. SEAS students on the other hand are pretty much like second-rate-citizen-just-shut-up-you-are-lucky-to-be-here kind of student.</p>
<p>Also, Upenn seems to compartmentalize its student based on their schools (i.e. sas student have .sas on their email, wharton have .wharton on their email) A policy that seems odd to me… as if they are dividing and force student from different department to “compare” themselves against each other?</p>
<p>Also, what’s with “wharton students only” computers on campus? it’s as if wharton student paying more tech tuition than non wharton student?</p>
<p>I think that they simply trying to keep (or make?) Wharton the #1 (undergraduate) business school. They know that they are out of reach of CalTech or Harvard in the Sciences, so they are investing all their money and efforts into Wharton.
As for the e-mails: There are probably some organizational reasons for that. Nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>wow. I really don't know what to say...that kind of surprises me. My brother (senior at SAS) has never complained about anything like that...he loves the school...although he did date a Wharton girl for a while and did mention something about how Wharton students were treated a little more partially by the school...either way, I'm curious to know what others think...</p>
<p>If you're talking about facilities, Wharton maybe has the edge, but I'd say SEAS has better facilities than CAS. Most of the recent expenditures on facilities have been on SEAS.</p>
<p>"Also, what's with "wharton students only" computers on campus? it's as if wharton student paying more tech tuition than non wharton student?"</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure Wharton people can't log into SEAS computers, although someone should verify that.</p>
<p>Also CAS/SEAS students who take wharton courses can get access to a lot of "wharton only" stuff.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure anyone with Penn Key could log to SEAS computers because they are using Upenn domain. On the other hand "Wharton only computers" use Wharton domain. </p>
<p>actually, last year some wharton MBAs proposed changing all of the emails to one singular, overarching "upenn.edu"... it didn't end up happening because i think SAS wanted to keep it that way (i don't remember if it was SAS or SEAS...). this year, the new group of wharton MBAs representing these types of policy changes, wanted to keep the same emails. SAS would rather have kept the same emails as well.</p>
<p>Wow, I am in SAS and I have never felt "second-class" because I am not in Wharton. I have never even seen the "Wharton-only" computers, but they probably do exist becuase they have Wharton-specific software just like Engineering kids have their own computer labs with matlab and all those other things that I have no idea about. I am friends with a lot of people in Wharton as well as the other two schools and I have never felt that there was any sort of divide. Of course there is always the prick from Wharton who thinks they're God's gift to man, but that is definitely not really Wharton- or Penn-specific. As for the email addresses, it doesn't really bother. So what, we are in different schools. Who cares if we have different email addresses? You should be proud of the school you are in. Have some confidence and stop being ashamed because your email ends in seas.upenn.edu instead of wharton.upenn.edu. I have never really understood why some people insist on having this "Wharton-inferirority complex." I would NEVER want to be in Wharton because it in no way matches my interests and you are probably the same seeing as how you applied to SEAS. Fortunately, not many people on campus actually care about whether they are as good as Wharton. Sorry, I didn't intend for this to be a rant, but I just want to make it clear that I don't feel the same as the OP and that most people (at least that I know) at Penn do not.</p>
<p>hahaha, actually I never applied to M+T or anything (I'm not really interested in business). I just feel uneasy because everytime I mention that I am a Penn engineering student, people give me weird looks like "why are you at Penn if you're studying engineering?" you know..
Add that to some partiality that Upenn gives to Wharton.. often makes me think "why the hell am I here?"</p>