<p>I dont think I could get into wharton with my grades, but I’m pretty sure I could get into seas. I’m interested in business engineering so seas wouldnt be too bad of an idea. Just wondering, can I transfer from SEAS to Wharton after one year if i attain a certain GPA or something?</p>
<p>are you already enrolled in seas? Because I was planning on doing business and engineering as well, and did early decision for jerome fisher m&t joint degree. I don't know if youre familiar with this, but it lets you get two degrees from wharton and seas in a condensed program which is feasible to do in 4 years. If you dont do m&t freshman year, you can try to transfer into it after freshman year or try to do a dual-degree wtih wharton and seas. Dual-degree is similar but you need more credits and it doesn't have the same prestige as m&t. To transfer into m&t after freshman year, I think you need at least a 3.7 gpa and need to have taken econ 1 and 2. I heard that it's extremely competitive to get into and that htey only take like 5 transfer kids a year</p>
<p>haha, just realized i didnt really answer your question. yes, you can transfer into wharton, but again, it is extremely competitive to get into. I'm sure there are gpa requirements as well</p>
<p>cool, do they list those requirements?</p>
<p>i answered this in the post "dual degree." but when you apply for a dual degree, you have the option of completely transferring.</p>
<p>but isnt M+T very competitive? I think they only take 40 kids or soemthing. SEAS would be much easier to get in</p>
<p>just to clarify. You could request a dual degree program AFTER your freshman year? I thought they only take kids from high school.</p>
<p>yea, but you don't have to be in M&T to dual degree with engineering and wharton. M&T is just a set curriculum for a few kids, but you can definitely do it on your own.</p>
<p>you apply for a dual degree either
1) end of freshman year
2) spring of sophomore year
3) end of sophomore year</p>
<p>so i guess the answer to my question is that you could in fact transfer within penn. Its just that there is a very high GPA requirement, and only a selected few could meet that requirement. </p>
<p>I'm torn between going to a lesser competitive business school(AEM, Stern) and go to Penn SEAS first and take the chance of possibly not getting into the Dual Degree programs</p>
<p>it's really not as difficult as everyone here makes it out to be. it's based solely on GPA. the minimum needed to apply is 3.4, but you need a 3.6-3.7 to be safe. this is totally doable. they DO NOT care about the difficuly of your classes, nor what you take. if you work moderately hard, you can get mostly A's an Penn.</p>
<p>oh, and there are ~60 people a year who do the internal transfer.</p>
<p>cool, thx for the info. I guess I'll apply SEAS ED then</p>
<p>stu, if you wanna focus on business and engineering, apply ED for m&t, and then mark that youre applying early for seas single-choice as well. this way, if you get rejected/deferred for m&t, you can still be considered ED for seas</p>
<p>cool, just one more question, how does Penn Engineering alone compare with cornell engineering?</p>
<p>well, cornell is definitly rated higher. Im interested in knowing what penn students have to say about that too. My impression is that Cornell has a better engineering program though (but penn is better overall)</p>
<p>check out the 'reasons to go to SEAS' thread too</p>
<p>Yes, you can take any class you want but if you're in engineering you pretty much have a set curriculum your freshman year. Chem101/102 (engineering sections), Phys150/151, Math104/115, Intro to Whatever. Its typically harder to get that 3.7 and many fail out of engineering into the College. A lot of students in SEAS initially want to do the dual-degree, but only about 30 end up doing so (whether it be GPA or too many course credits or priorities change (Eng > Bus))</p>
<p>true... i guess i didn't realize that the average GPA for an engineering student is ~2.7, as opposed to what, a 3.3 in the college? yea, that'll make it harder to get taht 3.7 GPA you need.</p>
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<p>What! Where does that statistic come from? This low average is really scaring me.</p>