<p>hmom5 -- yes, but had you gone to Harvard, would you also have gotten where you wanted to go? I know that's a rhetorical question, but were the specific skills in functional business areas (finance, strategy, marketing, statistics, operations, accounting) that you gained at a more specialized business school helpful? Did your employers values those skills, or were you hired because your an intelligent go-getter?</p>
<p>In my case, I also got a Wharton MBA. That said, as someone whose goal was investment banking, I absolutely think I would have gotten the same job as a Harvard English major who made sure to take enough quant classes to prove I could handle that part of the work. Back then every banker got an MBA, today it's different. But I still hire all sorts of majors every year.</p>
<p>Dunnin, penn provides the average wharton SAT to businessweek so it can maintain its #1 ranking.
Undergrad</a> - BSchools</p>
<p>btw, the reported score is 1439, not 1450 as i remembered before.</p>
<p>As the close relative of a non-quant NU Sr. who was offered at Goldman's Chicago office for July, I agree the course major issue is not terribly relevant... in fact another intern, who was not offered, brought in each Monday 10-20 pages of research he'd done over the weekend... it was apparently ultimately concluded this intern was too analytical for the sales dept and will end up at another firm in research!</p>
<p>I'm just hoping the firm in some substantive form will still be there in July.</p>
<p>The rationale for an undergrad business major is dubious if you'll be going graduate or professional school anyway. Getting an MBA after Wharton undergrad is redundant. You might just want to launch your business career on the basis of Wharton and forgo graduate school, but that might be limiting.</p>
<p>Better to get the Harvard undergrad degree and then go to a top business school.</p>
<p>Don't worry, GS isn't going anywhere! As foor the other kid, they probably just thought he was a tool.</p>
<p>1439 appears correct. The average for the entire school is 1437, and just 4 years ago the difference in SAT average between CAS and Wharton was reported by the deans to be 13 points.</p>
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<p>I certainly hope you don't discriminate against the liberal arts students at Penn! We're nicer, I swear :)</p>
<p>Wharton is definitely better for business</p>
<p>Wharton is going to be better for Undergrad Business because Havard doesn't have an undergrad business school.</p>
<p>The only fair comparison would be for comparing the graduate schools.</p>
<p>According to US News: 1: Harvard Business School, 2: Stanford, 3: Penn Wharton</p>
<p>zfox001:</p>
<p>Re: MBA rankings -- I like three perspectives: BW, USNew, Financial Times. Respectively, they rank Wharton 2/3/1. They rank Harvard 4/1/4.</p>
<p>Overall, Wharton comes out on top. If the polling were to be for Finance only, it wouldn't be that close.</p>
<p>Funny debate and those ranking are interesting Dunnin, it's been a long time since I looked. In my business the consensus seems to be that Stanford is number one. The access and interaction they have to/with Silicon Valley is priceless. That's why it remains, year over year, the hardest to get into.</p>
<p>Yes, I think that is partly b/c the east coast is divided between H/W/M/C/D, the midwest is C/N and the west coast has only Stanford when one thinks of top 8-9 MBA schools. Berkeley is closing though and I think eventually may join that club and fill a slight west coast void, and Michigan is trying to break into the C/N party. The publics are closing.</p>
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Yes, I think that is partly b/c the east coast is divided between H/W/M/C/D, the midwest is C/N and the west coast has only Stanford when one thinks of top 8-9 MBA schools. Berkeley is closing though and I think eventually may join that club and fill a slight west coast void, and Michigan is trying to break into the C/N party. The publics are closing.
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<p>While I would generally view those as the top 10 MBA schools, I don't think the publics are closing so much as they've been there for a while. UMichigan has been #9 I would say for at least the last 15 years, while another public (UVA) seems to have fallen out of the top 10 over the last decade and seemingly replaced by Berkeley; except that UVA seems to have fallen behind Duke, Cornell, Yale, NYU, UCLA too.</p>
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<p>These average sat scores are bs.</p>
<p>mit's average sat is NOT a 1387 it's waaaay higher, and emory's average sat score is definetely higher than 1364.</p>
<p>Wharton's average sat score is definetely higher than 1439, warton as like a 10 percent acceptance rate!!! come on!</p>
<p>Get</a> into U Penn (Wharton)? College Resume? - Yahoo! Answers</p>
<p>Your resume is extremely impressive; getting into Wharton is not much easier than getting into Harvard.
I am sorry to disappoint you, but if you do get 1800-2100; your chances of admission is very very slim. 2100 is pretty much the minimum needed for just Wharton consideration. Middle 2200s is the Wharton average SAT. There a lot of 2300 SATs being turned down every year. Wharton is just CRAZY hard.
You would also need two SAT IIs, with at least a 750+ (preferably 780+) Math II minimum and 700+ (preferably 780+) on some other subject.
Good luck; you have a solid 8-9 months before your last SAT deadline. Try to raise your score if you want any serious chances.
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Source(s):
UPenn Engineering Applicant, visitor of collegeconfidential, saw this year's ED applicant's results.</p>
<p>^ those stats are just estimates. 1439 was reported BY PENN.</p>
<p>These average sat scores are bs! Undergrad</a> - BSchools</p>
<p>mit's average sat is NOT a 1387 it's waaaay higher, and emory's average sat score is definetely higher than 1364.</p>
<p>Look, Wharton's average sat score is DEFINETELY way above 1439.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised by a 1387 for mit. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that their reading/grammar skills aren't that good.</p>