<p>I was looking at the internal transfer policy on Wharton's site and it says that the 3 year average for admits is 90 students (assume this is internal/external transfers and dual degree candidates) This is for rising sophmores.</p>
<p>Does this mean that at the end of freshmen year, 90 students left the undergrad program? Is their freshmen class size 425? If it is, then are 21% leaving the program after just one year? Is this a typical scenario with most business schools? </p>
<p>Also, this site includes Dual Degree candidates, does this mean one can get a degree from the college and one from Wharton?</p>
<p>The dual degree programs have been referenced on this site many times. Check out the older threads. Yes, you can get a degree from multiple schools at Penn.</p>
<p>The freshman class starts at about 550 or so. They then add another 100 or so through internal transfer, external transfer, and dual-degrees. I don't know what the "drop-out" rate is, but it's got to be insanely low. When people drop out of college, it tends to be for medical, family, or legal issues. Additionally, when people leave Wharton it can be to enroll in another of the Penn schools (like engineering, nursing, or the college, and I've known a few who've done this)</p>
<p>just confirmed that Wharton aims for a class size of around 400-425 freshmen year. They do admit probably around 550 to yield their freshmen class size. </p>
<p>I can't seem to understand how they have room for 100 more in sophomore year? Why can' they just take a few more freshmen?</p>
<p>If you are in the college, how do you get a dual degree or dual major from Wharton? </p>
<p>Maybe they do this so students in SAS and SEAS who realize after a year that they would prefer to study business have the opportunitiy to do so. It would be kind of unfair to basically make Wharton only open to people admitted as freshmen while making it fairly easy to transfer into the other schools. </p>
<p>If you are in SAS you transfer to Wharton by walking into Cohen Hall (is that what Logan is called now?) and go to the SAS office. There you meet with a transfer advisor and then submit a dual degree or transfer form for Wharton. Then you're done. If you are admitted (you meet the GPA cutoff), then you are now a student in Wharton and SAS and have to complete the degree requirements for both to get degrees from both schools.</p>
<p>thanks all for replying. I understand now, Wharton's yield is incredibly high, and they do have room for 90-100 more in their sophomore year. Drop out rate would be less than 5% I would think.</p>
<p>venkat89 - are you saying that if you are in the college say doing a Biology major, and you decide that you also want to get a business degree, you apply to Wharton, and if you have the requisite GPA, you are allowed to get a BS in Econ from Wharton, in addition to the College degree in Biology?</p>
<p>How long will it take to complete dual degrees if you wanted to do a major in the college that requires 36 c.u's and you only could get 2 AP credits & meet Foreign language requirement upon admission? </p>
<p>Getting a dual degree between Wharton and biology would not be easy. The easiest way to do it would be to come in with AP credit in BC Calc, foreign language, and stat, as it helps you get some Wharton classes out of the way. After I talked to a transfer advisor last semester, she made it seem like the easiest degrees were math and econ because they had the most overlap with Wharton courses that could be double counted. She also said that it would take very good planning with either summer courses, overloading a semester or two, or spending an extra semester or year.</p>