<p>I know it’s not the same as College.</p>
<p>Wharton’s MUCH more competitive (of course).</p>
<p>how much more?</p>
<p>what would u compare wharton with (in terms of selectiveness)?
…harvard?stanford?MIT?</p>
<p>and what about m&t? more competitive than wharton?</p>
<p>of course...</p>
<p>huntsman the #1 competitiveness (no way for me)</p>
<p>chanman, actually according to the letter i got from the director of the m&t program, "Congratulation on you acceptance to The Jerome Fisher .... As you may be aware, admission to this jiont-degree program is the most competitice on our campus."
Although I guess that could be just self promotion for their program; regardless, both m&t and huntsman are very difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Anyway, for your original question, I'd say Wharton is probably a little easier to get into than the schools you mentioned, at least harvard and stanford, based on the sat scores for wharton, H, and S.</p>
<p>Just a bit easier. Wharton has like a 14% overall acceptance rate.</p>
<p>14%?</p>
<p>DANG</p>
<p>What about ED?? (20%? maybe..)?</p>
<p>Definitely in the Harvard/Stanford range.</p>
<p>wharton is very hard to get into. I was waitlisted even though I got into Yale and my friend was also waitlisted adn she got into Harvard. I think it has upper ivy admissions criteria and is getting harder adn harder to get into</p>
<p>"I'd say Wharton is probably a little easier to get into than the schools you mentioned, at least harvard and stanford, based on the sat scores for wharton, H, and S."</p>
<p>Then on the basis of SAT scores...wouldn't M&T be more competitive than Harvard and Stanford...considering its average SAT score is around 1510 or so. Same with Huntsman...</p>
<p>chanman, I'm not sure. Don't quote me exactly!</p>
<p>""I got into Yale and my friend was also waitlisted adn she got into Harvard. I think it has upper ivy admissions criteria and is getting harder adn harder to get into""</p>
<p>What makes it different? What is "upper ivy admissions criteria" Compared to HARvard???</p>
<p>Allow me to shatter some myths:</p>
<p>Getting into Wharton is not "obviously" much harder than getting into The College. Wharton looks for strengths in math and applied science and economics (some might argue that the latter two are the same thing, as I would, but whatever). They will forgive weak humanities and writing scores.</p>
<p>Getting into the college entails a well rounded package or a strength in a certain area (say, music).</p>
<p>You cannot compare acceptance rates to compare competitiveness. The University of Chicago, for example, has a 50% admission rate. UCLA has an admission rate much <em>much</em> less. No one, however, can claim that UC is less competative than UCLA.</p>
<p>Also, do not base selectivity solely on SAT ranges. Penn places more emphasis on how you did in comparison to your peers than other schools do (Penn has the second highest number of people in the top 10% of their class. this is an excellent thread: <a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?757/9364%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?757/9364</a> )</p>
<p>I wouldn't agree that Wharton forgives weak humanities and writing scores. Low scores are low scores no matter what. They might not be looked down upon as much if they are in humanities, but I would say that writing is still really important, but yes, not AS important as your math score.</p>
<p>hmm...maybe i worked around that "math importance" then..
my math was 740, and physics 710 (math-ish)...while my writing 790..
still got in though (M&T) :D</p>
<p>If you want to talk about avg. SAT scores...Huntsman has the highest avg. at 1536 last year. OO. yes. Gasp. It's scary.</p>
<p>perhaps you did, a-bomb, through stellar grades, essays, or whatever! congrats! but it doesn't make it the rule =p</p>
<p>What if aside from several good grades in math, my curriculum is mostly in the Humanities and Social Sciences? That's my "area."</p>
<p>I got into Wharton '09 with a 670 Math IC, and a 660 Math IIC, so high math scores aren't everything! That, being said, if you're not brilliant at math, you better make up for it in other areas (academic, extra curricular, etc.).</p>
<p>Christopherson is right, Math scores aren't everything at Wharton. Concentration in the math subject area isn't even totaly necessary. 700 on iic and Calc AB were enough to get me in.</p>