<p>Would Upenn, or Wharton be a good fit for me? I know you don't have to major in business in order to go into business, or get into a good grad school, but at the same time I feel I should consider Wharton.</p>
<p>Other schools I'm looking at</p>
<p>CMC
Pomona
Princeton
Dartmouth
Williams
Davidson
Bowdoin
Swarthmore
Amherst</p>
<p>If you truly want a LAC style school with very small classes and a liberal arts focused student body and curriclulum, Wharton is probably not the place for you. You can get the education at Penn CAS, but the intro classes, and the school as a whole, are very large compared to your other schools (still small compared to real state schools). If LAC + Business is your goal, IMO, Dartmouth is the place to be. Princeton, Amherst, and Williams are pretty good too.</p>
<p>or how about smaller Universities/Colleges with a business focus like Babson or Bentley?</p>
<p>Princeton ORFE? econ at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Babson and Bently will not set you up with the same opportunities as Wharton. Princeton, Dartmouth, and WAS will be equal or close depending on the company. The only real equal to Wharton’s business opportunities is Harvard, but who would want to go there?</p>
<p>Take a look at Carleton College (in Minnesota).</p>
<p>@venkat: thank you, yes, my goal is LAC + business, so I will look into those 4 (which I pretty much already was). And then I’ll find a few more to add on, haha.</p>
<p>choklitrain: Wow!!! I had no idea Princeton had an “engineering” degree like that! And for Dartmouth, is it possible to take classes (but not major) at Tuck?</p>
<p>Dukeofearl: haha, it’s kind of funny actually, one of the very first colleges I was truely serious about WAS Carleton! But then I learned they aren’t need blind/loan free, both of which I would need and prefer.</p>
<p>@Venkat again: What is WAS? Washington university in St, Louis?</p>
<p>WAS = Williams Amherst Swarthmore. WashU is not close to Wharton’s recruiting nation wide.</p>
<p>My gut reaction is Dartmouth undergrads can’t take Tuck classes (and why would you need to?) but you’re better off asking on the Dartmouth forum. Either way they land jobs well enough in banking and consulting so it doesn’t hold them back at all.</p>
<p>Brown also has a LAC feel to it, but has a different feel than the other schools you listed and not nearly as strong as Dartmouth or Princeton in terms of business recruiting.</p>
<p>Maybe also take a look at Colgate.</p>
<p>If I were you and the money were not an issue, I’d shoot an application to Wharton RD. You’re better off turning down admission to Wharton in April than changing your mind about what you want out of school and regretting not applying.</p>
<p>u might look at the little ivies. i think brown is the smallest ivy league school. the rest have relatively big campuses, then dartmouth. penn is pretty small but there are a lot of students, which u might not like, although there is a LA curriculum in the college. but even brown is not as tiny as most liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>and any of the top liberal arts colleges would be good for business.</p>
<p>Venkat: Thank you for all of your help! And I haven’t looked too much at brown, but I do plan on going to grad school for my MBA at least. Business recruitment means alot to me, but we are talking about undergrad education so I don’t think that matters as much (unless they “scout” you so they can hire you as a grad?). I did initially look at Colgate but they aren’t need blind or loan free I believe, both matter alot to me.</p>
<p>So…would Brown offer some of the virtues in a LAC I am looking for? I have heard from many people that Dartmouth and Princeton are LACs at heart, which is why I chose them.</p>
<p>Everything that liberal arts colleges offer is enticing to me. Small classes, undergrad focused, one on one time with the professors, the general ideals of a LAC curriculum, the smaller campuses (So I don’t get lost :p), and more! With that said, would Upenn be good for me?</p>
<p>For now I’ve made my list: CMC, Pomona, Williams, Amhearst, Swarthmore, Princeton, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>princeton has a huge campus and big lectures, so i wouldn’t get swept up in thinking that it’s like a lac. brown is kind of like a lac. they only have lectures for really popular science classes, but other than that, it’s very small and close knit. a lot of lac don’t give loans ie. amherst, williams, swarthmore and u can bet they’ll offer u the lac that yr looking for. hope this helps! good luck!</p>
<p>Just look up posts from hmom. Where you go for undergrad does affect your job prospects upon graduation. For the more lucrative fields like investment banking and consulting few places can touch Wharton. The schools I listed will be pretty darn close to the point where there isn’t a significant dropoff. It’s all about recruiting, networking, and connections. If you aren’t looking at those fields it doesn’t matter, but no reason to shut out some of the hihest paying jobs when you’re 17.</p>