<p>What is the engineering school like...workload and such. Can you take classes at Wharton? What is the Jerome Fisher program like?</p>
<p>Any Penn undergrad–including those in SEAS–can take courses in Wharton (or in Penn’s other undergrad and most of its grad schools, such as the law school), and many do! It’s part of Penn’s well-known “One University” policy:</p>
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<p>Jerome Fisher is probably the hardest to get into in all of Penn.</p>
<p>Texaspg’s right - the Jerome Fisher program is likely Penn’s most competitive program. I know several people who turned down HYPSM for it; it’s easily one of the most competitive undergraduate programs of any kind in the country.</p>
<p>You can take classes from Wharton if you are in engineering - it is just excessively difficult to get two degrees without M&T, unless you spend a summer/5th year. M&T allows students to fulfill requirements for both SEAS and Wharton simultaneously (e.g. a math class counts as credit towards both degrees, so one need not take two math classes). The same is not necessarily true for non-M&T dual degrees.</p>
<p>Most students take somewhere between 5-6.5 classes most of the time. It’s rigorous, but from what I near, the program’s connections make it one of the most prestigious in the country for finance/investment banking and venture-capital-type things.</p>
<p>Hope you don’t mind me using this thread to ask my own question about Jerome Fisher.</p>
<p>I was admitted into SEAS during the ED round, but if I’m completely honest what attracted me to Penn it was the Jerome Fisher program. I didn’t apply to it cause I thought my stats weren’t good enough and so rather than risk rejection I applied to SEAS. I saw on the M&T site that they allow freshmen to apply for a transfer to the program at the end of their freshman year. Anybody able to offer any insight?</p>
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<p>Entirely depends on major, but hey, you’re at a top engineering program in the U.S. It won’t be easy.</p>
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<p>Very rigorous, but a fantastic program for anyone to pursue, even pure engineers.</p>
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<p>This is blatantly incorrect. The academic difference between M&T and an uncoordinated dual degree with Wharton is not that certain credits don’t double-count; it’s that M&T waives a couple of requirements from the Wharton school; for example, one doesn’t need to take OPIM 101, one doesn’t need two ethics classes (just one), and one doesn’t need three business breadth classes (just two, one of which is MGMT 237 anyway).</p>