<p>I’m visited UPenn and was interviewed yesterday, but there is one thing that might bug me if I go. I’m a pretty competitive; I always want to be on top. I feel like if I was at the College of Arts in Sciences, I’d feel inferior to the kids attending the Wharton School.
There’s this looming contrast between the Wharton kids and the others (I don’t mean to insult anybody). Does anyone have any first hand experience?
I didn’t apply to Wharton because I think I’m slightly on the low end to get in, but otherwise at UPenn I think I have a very good chance. I know this has been answered a million times in other threads, but is the prospect of transfering into Wharton at all satisfying to those in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Thank you.</p>
<p>Apply to Wharton if you like business. Stay in the College if you like what is offered there better. But don't apply to one or the other because of some desire to be superior for whatever reason. There are plenty of people in both the College and in Wharton who will outperform you. There is plenty of opportunity to strive to be near the top of the class regardless of the school you attend. The only people on campus who try to make this contrasting rift between the College and Wharton students are tools anyway. Go with what you like.</p>
<p>Good lord. College isn't "Wharton for Dummies." It's for people who want a liberal arts education. Wharton is for people who want an undergraduate business degree.</p>
<p>If you want to apply to the College because you think it's the best you can do (instead of the best FOR you), then you have the distinct honor of being the first person to whom I have ever said: "Please don't apply here."</p>
<p>Wharton is if you want to get an undergraduate business degree. I applied to the College because I'm planning on getting an MBA and therefore, it'd be better to study a science or social science for undergraduate. Just so you have a broader knowledge. I heard that people who take both undergraduate and graduate business only end up having 5 years or so of 'real' education because so much is repeated in graduate school. "The MBA isnt' designed for business students, it's designed for students who want to study business" as quoted from Businessweek (the issue I got from HK).
So it's really a matter of what you want. The Wharton school is mainly known for its graduate programs I think(that's what their ranking is based on most of the time)..why would that make the College inferior as an undergraduate student?</p>
<p>no...i'm pretty sure wharton's undergraduate programs are ranked #1</p>
<p>Another thing is that in order to do business, you dont' really have to even have real business education..
My dad got a B.Sci in Physics and a masters and PhD in Engineering. He's never had a business course in his life and he's the manager for the china-branch of a german company. Mainly because the company sells bearings and he knows the product. In my opinion business is mostly learned through experience anyway.</p>
<p>thelui7: well then, it all depends on what you like then.</p>
<p>Business school is just a glorified alumni network and mechanism to bestow status on people. Wharton MBAs don't even release their GPAs to potential employers. They just say "look at me, i'm in wharton"</p>
<p>shuanggou, actually wharton is ranked higher 4 its undergrad (well, tht's at least 4rm wht i've read; i may b wrong)
mbaboy, all posters r right. i wanna go 2 wharton, but tht's only cuz i wanna study marketing nd cuz i wanna work in a business-realted field. if tht's not wht u wanna do, then don't go 2 warton. u may just end up hating it nd u'll b the one falling behind. do whtever ur passion is. penn has an overall acceptance rate of 17%, so any school should b hard 2 get into. nd even if it isnt, u're still in an ivy league, where everything is known as hard, so the college will b jsut as academically challenging. i would never apply to wharton just cuz i might feel inferior at another college. i mean, college is what yu make it to be. if u let urself feel inferior, then u will. it's all in the mind. go 2 the college of arts and science, if u really wanna, nd think of urself as one of the fortunate who was even accpeted to penn.</p>
<p>Actually, starting with the class of 2008 in the Wharton MBA-program, they do release grades.</p>
<p>Please don't come here.</p>
<p>While they do kinda stress the friendly rivalry between CAS and Wharton during the first week of school, after that it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>Whartonites don't act superior as a whole, but there are of course a few elitists. I also know plenty of elitists who look down upon people who have non-liberal arts majors.</p>
<p>While I do make a fake disgust sound when I find out someone is in Wharton, I'm generally happy to have it here. But I do think its funny that Engineers take away I-Banking jobs from the Whartonites.</p>
<p>Actually, now that I think of it, the only group of people who do act superior are the Engineers here.</p>