<p>I have been accepted to Harvard Undergraduate, the Wharton Undergraduate Program, and Yale. If I want to go to Harvard Business School, would I have an advantage by attending Harvard Undergrad?</p>
<p>Not likely. Whether you go to Harvard or one of its peers is not going to be the deciding factor for business school. Go where you want to go to college.</p>
<p>Pretty huge difference in academics between Wharton + H/Y. Not that big of a difference in what you can do afterwards (maybe more Private Equity @ Wharton).</p>
<p>just<em>foget</em>me, why do you say private equity?</p>
<p>Is there really such a disparity in academics between Penn and HY? The Jerome Fisher program seems very rigorous to me, and excellent across the board.</p>
<p>Sorry - I meant difference in curriculum, not academic quality (Wharton's business classes are great, just completely different from what you'd take at H or Y).</p>
<p>The "typical" (stereotypical?) Wall Street path is Investment Banking -> Business School -> Private Equity. It's very, very hard to go straight from Harvard undergrad to a major Private Equity firm (Blackstone takes a few/year, but that's about it). It's my understanding that more Wharton students are able to "skip" ahead to PE, because of the rigorous finance classes they've taken.</p>
<p>That said, if you want to do Investment Banking (or Consulting, or Hedge Fund stuff), Harvard (and Yale, I assume) are wonderful + all the top firms recruit -- I'm guessing there's a negligible difference between the three schools.</p>
<p>This isn't comparative, but can say without reservation that Harvard's a great place to go for an undergrad interested in business. There's a ton of great stuff going on extracurricularly - startups, investment clubs, trips to meet Warren Buffett. And because Harvard doesn't offer a business concentration, you can major in whatever you'd like, and still go into business (most people do economics, but it's really not necessary). If you're interested, you can cross-reg at MIT and take business classes at Sloan.</p>
<p>Well, if you're a Harvard undergraduate and you get a chance to work with some of the Harvard Business School professors and impress them, then you'll probably have a higher chance of getting into the Business School. I know a senior at Harvard who is working with a HBS professor over the summer. I'm sure if he does a good job, he'll have an advantage come admission time.</p>