<p>How cut throat is penn?</p>
<p>Very. Some people even have SCARS.</p>
<p>Probably less than your high school.</p>
<p>I don't really think Penn is cutthroat at all. Although I do secretly hope before a midterm or a final that other people will do bad (lots of classes are graded on curves), everyone is glad to help each other while studying. There will be some competition, but if you really grasp the material 100% you will definitely not have a problem getting in the A range, especially in the intro science/math classes where a lot of people just try to coast by.</p>
<p>Also, some classes are harder than others. MGMT100 is infamous for the difficulty in obtaining an A</p>
<p>I lost a leg in nam. That was nothing to Penn. Once I saw a man rip another's eye out, just to hear him scream.</p>
<p>No throats were slit -- thus I conclude Penn is not cutthroat.</p>
<p>Legend, your rigorous adherence to definition will take you far.</p>
<p>Will it take me off of North America? How far exactly? How many miles?</p>
<p>I don't think that just because a class is difficult to get an A in that makes it cut throat. I mean, MGMT 100 cutthroat? That's a joke. It's all about loving each other and team work and group dynamics.</p>
<p>And perhaps things have changed since I graduated. But when I took MGMT 100, you were guaranteed a B- or better. So if you got a B- that basically meant you failed (ie you stink as a teammate).</p>
<p>I would think that classes like FNCE 206 and 235 should be weighed much higher on the difficulty to get an A scale than a class like MGMT 100.</p>
<p>i think that the classes i've taken at wharton are much more competitive and graded harder than the classes i've taken in the college...the thing that makes wharton classes competitive is the curve which in some instances you find yourself getting frustrated because you got a grade that at any other school would be say a B+ and at Penn it ends up being a C+...i.e. in one class i had the second midterm was out of 130 points and the mean ended up being a 117 (90%)...and trust me it was a really tough test. So say you get a 117 which you are happy about yey a 90% but in reality you will receive a B/B-/C+ depending on the rest of the curve. I definitely have had tests were gradewise I should get an A/A- but I get a B/B-...it sucks but you learn to live with it. I think that this is the reason why penn can be cutthroat some people get to a point of frustration where they just don't want to help others...</p>
<p>MGMT100 is not a hard class...the thing that makes it cutthroat, in my opinion, is the peer assessment where you have to give 1 person a 5/5, 2 people a 4/5, 3 people a 3/5, 2 people a 2/5, and 1 person a 1/5...so say in your group the 10 of you work just as hard (not always the case) this means that pretty people will be assigning grades based on how much they like you...which then determines i think it's something like 15-25% of your grade...this kind of happened in my group. he had one slacker so pretty much everyone gave the 1 to him and then 1 other guy who worked a little more than that guy so he got a 2 but the rest of the grades were pretty much based on how much you liked someone which isn't really fair...</p>
<p>I think MGMT is supposed to be "unfair" in this regard. The grades are not up to the teachers for the peer assessment -- it's amongst the students. Sometimes what happens to someone on a team isn't fair -- sometimes business isn't fair, and life in general isn't fair. It's supposed to motivate you to not keep to yourself so much.</p>
<p>And yeah the Wharton curve can suck, but if you're average you generally get a B. What sucked were the OPIM cases. Almost everyone gets near-perfect on them because a lot of people copy each other's working code. If everyone had to do Case 2 (a VBA/Excel project) by themselves, I guarantee you the mean would have been incredibly low.</p>
<p>I'd agree with you about OPIM being unfair, but lets face it - the midterm and final make it pretty clear which partners really did the work and which had no idea what they were doing. An A in OPIM means you're solid.</p>
<p>eighteenforluck: Not necessarily. I did the majority of the Cases with ease and did Case2 in one sitting by myself (got full credit + extra credit) because I had a lot of other stuff to do. I know VBA like the back of my hand but the finals in that course are just so long. That and the VBA code was very poorly written and not commented. It's a pain to figure out what the hell "i" and "j" are supposed to represent as variables. They need to be named better. Debugging someone else's code is crappy when it is written in a way you would not do logically or modularly. I ended up with a B despite the fact that computers and math and stuff like that is my forte -- I'm just very bad at taking huge, long tests.</p>
<p>professor lee was pretty hot, though <3</p>
<p>Nothing about Wharton is attractive.</p>
<p>you mean like a not so pretty young woman with a giant trust fund? I guess you could call that unattractive. hahaha</p>
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