<p>I was accepted into both the M&T Program and Princeton University.</p>
<p>Now I have to make a tough decision. I know that there is no wrong choice here and I am extremely grateful to have these options.</p>
<p>That being said, I am not sure which option to choose. </p>
<p>After searching through CC threads, it comes down to this.</p>
<p>I think M&T is better because it provides the networks of Wharton and individual attention since it is such a small program.
However, I am not sure if I 100% want to do business and believe that if going to Princeton, I will have more options and if I really wanted to, I could go to Wharton for an MBA afterwards. </p>
<p>I was wondering what you all thought? M&T or Princeton?</p>
<p>Which campus environment do you prefer? Penn and Princeton are pretty different. For me, Penn’s campus-in-a-city worked really, really well for me; I wasn’t a fan of Princeton’s location. Moreover, I found Penn’s architecture to be prettier, so it was a no-brainer for me.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that going to M&T doesn’t mean you have to do business! I’m pretty set on being a programmer of sorts right out of undergrad (whether it’s for a large shop or for a start-up). I think that the Wharton degree is invaluable and is functionally equivalent to an MBA (look at all of the 200-level finance courses - they’re cross-listed as MBA courses), sans the work experience.</p>
<p>Will you be coming to M&T Day? Will you be going to Princeton’s admitted student preview day?</p>
<p>Wharton really is an unbelievable opportunity. The network it would help you establish would be really helpful, and like Keasbey Nights said, you don’t have to do business. If you go to Penn, you’ll be in a big city, and with that comes a lot of opportunities.</p>
<p>Yes but if I am not sure of business but engineering, then Princeton’s engineering is far superior to Penn’s engineering. So Wouldnt princeton be better?</p>
<p>I think that it may come down to campus “fit” but I am trying to look for more pros or cons besides that. Just wondering which university will offer me more opportunities. :/</p>
<p>I wouldn’t at all say that Princeton’s engineering is “far superior” to Penn’s engineering. These are undergraduate engineering programs. You’ll be using the same curricula and textbooks at either school, being taught by equally lauded professors. You definitely will have equal opportunities at either school.</p>
<p>It definitely comes down to campus fit in your case, I’d say.</p>
<p>I would go for M&T in your case because it provides you a more guaranteed path for success in whatever field you want to pursue, as well as the invaluable opportunity to specialize in two areas. Of course Princeton’s great and provides you with a little more flexibility, but I think that Penn provides you a similar quality of education and an equally good if not better network of people. With Princeton you would have to forge your own path a little more. I would say that Penn, especially being in the city, has tremendous opportunities and a Wharton degree can get you very far.</p>
<p>Princeton alumni loyalty is famous; they have extraordinary networks through TigerTracks. According to the WSJ feeder survey, Princeton was third in America for feeding into the top Law, MBA, and Med programs (behind Harvard an barely behind Yale). Keep your options open. Going to M&T would not be better for business (in fact, it might be worse); going to Princeton preserves all of your options and is probably even better for MBA admissions. I also think you would have a more enjoyable and balanced overall experience at Princeton.</p>
<p>The bottom line? At this level of excellence and eminence, it’s really a matter of personal preference and fit, plain and simple. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably still a high school or college student, or an adult who hasn’t spent much time working in the business or professional worlds.</p>
<p>You can go far and have numerous options coming out of either of these schools/programs, so that aspect is really not dispositive.</p>
<p>So my advice is to go with your gut, choose the university and campus that feels best overall to you–and where you’ll be happiest and thrive no matter what your academic or career plans happen to be–and stop trying to count how many angels each of these extraordinary schools can balance on the head of a pin. :)</p>
<p>Trust me, in the long run–and I’ve been a resident of the long run for quite some time now ;)–you’ll do incredibly well with either of these choices.</p>
<p>Whoever sent you this is an idiot. There are many reasons to pick Princeton over M&T, but M&T would most certainly be better for business than Princeton. Wharton’s business opportunities straight out of undergrad are second to none, with Harvard being close behind.</p>
<p>What’s nice about M&T is that you don’t even need to get an MBA. Take a look at the Wharton website. All (or at least a lot) of the MBA classes are cross-listed with undergrad courses. For example, I think just about every finance concentration course doubles as an MBA course. You’re literally taking classes with MBAs.</p>
<p>The reason that Wharton (and M&T) isn’t known as a “top school” for feeding into med school and law school is because students at Wharton want to do business, not med or law. This doesn’t preclude you from pursuing med school, law school, or whatever else you want to study - kids do it every year. Heck, I recently talked to an M&T graduate currently doing an MD/MPH dual degree at Penn Med.</p>
<p>As 45 Percenter said, you’ll do incredibly well with either pick. Do not listen to the “advice” about Princeton having better business opportunities than Penn, and please don’t pick one school over the other because you think you’ll have better business opportunities. That’s a silly reason to pick M&T over Princeton, or vice versa.</p>
<p>At this point it will come down to guts level. Go with what you feel as your best fit. Some students don’t like the suburb of Princeton and some students like the city better.</p>
When I went to Wharton undergrad in the '70s, 1/3–that’s right, ONE THIRD–of Wharton undergrads went directly to law school, many–if not most–to top schools (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, NYU, etc.). Then, in the '80s, the leveraged-buyout/junk bond, investment banking, hedge fund, and consulting booms hit, and Wall Street jobs became much more alluring to Wharton undergrads (a trend that continued at least until the recent financial crisis). But for those with a more enlightened, longer-term view, Wharton–like MBA programs and law school–is known to be great preparation for an incredibly wide variety of academic and career paths.</p>
<p>I think academically, the difference is negligible. Both have superb engineering schools, although Princeton’s may be higher ranked, and WWS, while not necessarily in the same niche as Wharton, is in some ways (public policy and international business) better than it. All that aside, the academics will be different, but of negligible difference.
Just throwing it out there, but the Daily Beast did their own surveying to find the happiest and most stressed college students.</p>
<p>A quick caveat re: Fisher is “worse for business”</p>
<p>This statement can be considered true in one aspect, that the additional engineering degree makes one more likely to work back office/mid office instead of front office. Generally front office gets the glitz and glamour of IB/PE/etc.</p>
<p>That said, M&T > Princeton. With world-class educations (and degrees) in business/economics and engineering, you can truly do anything.</p>
<p>Idk about that world class educators thing. It really applies to both schools. Princeton <em>does</em> have 4 professors who have won the Nobel Prize in economics…</p>
<p>One very important factor to me is the opportunities/alumni relations that each program offers, the M&T program vs Princeton ORFE/ Finance. </p>
<p>On Wall Street, which degree is more sought after? M&T Degrees in Wharton and Engineering or A Princeton ORFE degree with finance concentration?</p>
<p>Also, I feel like M&T would guarantee a job since if no banks are hiring, I could always go engineering. </p>
<p>Since M&T is a special program it may also receive special attention?<br>
What do ya’ll think?</p>
<p>^ You’re not paying attention to what we’re all saying. Stop examining these two phenomenal programs/schools under an electron microscope, and pick the school at which you think you’ll be the happiest and thrive. Period.</p>
I think that the Wharton degree is invaluable and is functionally equivalent to an MBA (look at all of the 200-level finance courses - they’re cross-listed as MBA courses), sans the work experience.</p>