<p>Of course with 4 courses you'll have a higher GPA, but will 5 make you more competitive?</p>
<p>Nope nope.</p>
<p>depends which classes. 5 joke classes won't look as good as As in upper level math/physics classes.</p>
<p>Oh, btw my answer was for internal transfer, didn't realize you were potentially external</p>
<p>didn't realize that this guy could be an internal transfer. what's better is that magnetschoolca (who is frantically trying to transfer to wharton) asked the exact same question in the transfer student forum...</p>
<p>here's what my schedule looks like with 4 courses</p>
<p>Multivariable Calc (251 or 291 (super accelerated)?)
General Psychology
Expos Writing
Intro to Microeconomics (Honors segment)</p>
<p>If I were to take 5 courses, I would just add Statistics intermediate level or whatever follows Introductory since i Placed out of it in high school.
(i'm an external btw)</p>
<p>So which schedule looks more appealing to the wharton adcoms?</p>
<p>I'd say 5 - this is the # that Wharton students take and generally speaking they expect you to have a "most challenging" curriculum and if they feel that you earned your GPA by going easy on yourself they will discount it.</p>
<p>Good luck transferring - you will need it.</p>
<p>yeah, tell me about it. I'm gonna need luck for sure.</p>
<p>So I suppose 5 courses it is. I sure hope that makes a big difference. In the transfer essay btw, should you specifically state why a certain school (penn) is better than your current school for what you plan to study? Should it have a creative approach to it like the freshman essays? Where can I read some sample transfer essays?</p>
<p>i thought multivariable calc was math 114...</p>
<p>wharton11 doesn't go to penn....</p>
<p>wharton 11, change those classes to differential equations, the highest level econ class available, the highest level stat class available, some insane physics/engineering class, and you're writing/english class. you need to wow the adcoms because your high school record was clearly not good enough to get into wharton.</p>
<p>trust me, my high school record was packed with APs. I took multivariable calculus as a senior. I'm not sure if it would be wise to drown myself in the courses that you suggested......</p>
<p>pretty much I lacked ECs and my essays probably werent what they wanted.
So I'm gonna take highest level multivariable calculus with dif eq, a level above AP stats, intro to microecon for honors students, general psych, and expos writing. I think those picks are pretty good.</p>