<p>I want to get a degree in both (1)Engineering-Mechanical/Systems AND (2)Business, which is the better school for me?</p>
<p>Penn - I've applied for SEAS, but will eventually, by sophomore year, try to transfer into their Jerome Fisher M&T Program (Wharton + Engineering)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon - Top ranked Engineering + Tepper!!!</p>
<p>Penn has M&T, Wharton, and its IVY; but Mellon is the MUCH better Engineering college (ranked like 25+ spots above Penn's engineering), and has much smaller class sizes, and the best research, internships...Which to choose and why?</p>
<p>Go to CMU. Pittsburgh's a great college city, much better than Philly (and I'm a Philly native) and CMU is a top notch school in both areas you're looking at. Tepper grads are known for having one of the most rigorous undergraduate programs, and after your engineering classes you'll think most of them are a joke.</p>
<p>CMU is very receptive to students that want to do both business and engineering, the only real stipulation is that you need to have the engineering college be your home one.</p>
<p>The only way I'd see going to Penn over CMU in your case is if Penn offers a much better financial aid package. CMU can be a little stingy on that, and I don't think it's worth taking out a whole ton of loans to go there.</p>
<p>Depends on what you want to do professionally. If you want to do business, especially finance, I would say Penn is a better choice. BUT I don't think M&T allows late entrance anymore (another Penn student on CC said that, although I have confirmed it). Regardless, it's ridiculously hard. M&T only takes like one sophomore per year (give or take a couple, but the competition is pretty fierce). If not, you'll have to apply to a dual degree program with Wharton, acceptance into Wharton is based purely on GPA (and you, an engineer taking 5 classes with vicious curves, are competing with College students who take 4 classes that usually have easier curves compared to freshman engineering classes). Plus it's very difficult to fit an entire engineering degree and an entire Wharton degree in four years.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, you can still major in engineering and take an unrestricted number of business classes as electives from Wharton. Keep in mind that a lot of our engineers go into finance and they are heavily recruited because they have a very strong quantitative background plus finance courses from Wharton - the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>If you want to seriously pursue mechanical or systems engineering, though, CMU sounds like the better choice.</p>
<p>if you wanna get a business related job after graduation, edge goes to Penn. if you wanna work for engineering firms after graduation, edge goes to CMU. If you aren't 100% sure about your future career ambitions or not 100% sure if engineering is your academic passion (as is the case for many h.s. kids), an edge goes to Penn since it has very deep depth of liberal arts and business (Wharton) programs. Personally, I would choose Penn without second thoughts unless I was very certain that I would want to get an engineering job post graduation. But, the thing is that nowadays, many engineers end up in business sectors anyway bc there is more money involved in banking, finance, etc.</p>
<p>More importantly, you've already applied, so ask this question after March 31st.</p>