<p>HI congrats to all acceptees! I have a question about M&T program.
I got into SEAS but am considering transfering into MT programs after 1st year. I was wondering is it extremely difficult? what I have to do in my 1st year at penn to better my chance????</p>
<p>help please!!</p>
<p>get a really good gpa</p>
<p>you’ll need a 3.8-3.9 minimum</p>
<p>that’s all they care about</p>
<p>thanks! </p>
<p>how’s the career opportunities for M&T?? is it like, before you graduate there are gonna be many top companies trying to get you?</p>
<p>nope, not any more than otherwise. All M&T will do is destroy your GPA and give you a stronger education in business, making a MBA a luxury rather than a necessity if that is the career path you choose.</p>
<p>Transferring into Wharton is all about GPA, transferring into M&T is a combination of GPA+essay</p>
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<p>If you can graduate from M&T with a high GPA (3.7+), you will definitely have many more interviews than the average Wharton student. If, however, M&T does destroy your GPA, then you’d be better off just doing a single degree.</p>
<p>I just think some type of fundation education before a business education from wharton would be a better option. say I want to get into medical/pharmacutical market, it would be the best to get a biomed engineering BS and then a business degree from wharton… what do you guys think? am I better off going straight to wharton, or do SEAS first and then go to graduate school in wharton?</p>
<p>^I think I know what you’re getting at–that having a more traditional background in engineering/sciences is better than studying something soft like business right out of high school. You could certainly make a case that lots of famous entrepreneurs were not business majors, especially in the tech field. Or that having industry knowledge (say in biomed), will give you an edge in doing financial analysis on companies like GSK or Merck.</p>
<p>These are all valid arguments, but the answer to your question really depends on what you want to do. If you want work in finance after college, you’d be better of going to wharton and potentially doing a minor in something like biology because in reality, having industry knowledge is not that big of an advantage in finance. On the other hand, if you are more interested in working in pharma and perhaps starting your own biotech company, then a wharton undergrad degree is a waste of time for you and from what I’ve heard, Penn has one of the strongest bioengineering programs.</p>
<p>Of course you could also just do a dual degree an leave your options open…</p>
<p>it is very hard actually. i’d say 3.95+. I myself applied last year for dual/M&T and only got in dual SEAS/Wharton.
SEAS itself is difficult. You add business in there…and you are screwed in terms of gpa unless you have at least 6+ ap credits. </p>
<p>so be sure you know what you are getting into.</p>