<p>Hey guys,
I really want to attend an Ivy League school, and am working very hard for that. In fact I am even considering applying early decision to Upenn, Wharton. But I really want to know what life at an Ivy League is like, especially at Wharton? How much work, freetime etc....so I can make the right choices.</p>
<p>Wharton is not really comparable to any other school in the Ivy League, including Penn’s own College of Arts & Sciences.</p>
<p>Wharton is business training. The others are liberal arts and sciences. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn (CAS), Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth…these schools educate you.</p>
<p>Penn (Wharton) trains you.</p>
<p>So the question should be: Do you go to the Ivy League to be trained or to be educated?</p>
<p>ilovebagels, I heard that they(wharton students) are required to take like 40% of their classes from CAS. So, don’t Wharton students get a solid liberal arts background anyway?</p>
<p>40% < 100%</p>
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<p>Why? “I really want to attend an Ivy League school” should come after you have gathered this information, not before.</p>
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<p>Many of the Ivies are very different in feel. Go to a school you will be happy at.</p>
<p>[Ivy</a> League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League]Ivy”>Ivy League - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Regarding Wharton and liberal arts:</p>
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<p>You do realize that “Ivy League” is a football division, right? They’re obviously all fantastic schools, but my point is you will have different experiences at each as I don’t believe there is one “ivy” experience.</p>
<p>The question was about life at upenn. In many ways it is like at any college and depends on the choices you want to make. S graduated from there is M&T (dual degree Wharton and Engineering). Not a lot of slack in the program. However he did go out pal around etc like anyone else, but less so than the average upenn college student, or even Wharton student. Also depends on how bright and organized you are. Brighter more organized more time to goof off and play. Just like any other school. It is not mystical.</p>
<p>Hey guys,
I really want to attend an Ivy League school, and am working very hard for that. In fact I am even considering applying early decision to Upenn, Wharton. But I really want to know what life at an Ivy League is like, especially at Wharton? How much work, freetime etc…so I can make the right choices."</p>
<p>What makes you think all Ivy Leagues are alike? In terms of location, they range from small town to the middle of Manhattan. In terms of campus feel, they have very different campus feels. Frankly, if you stripped off the Ivy League label, they’d be just 8 of many excellent schools – and you could re-group those schools in all different ways based on similarity of overall experience. </p>
<p>Why the interest in Ivy League, when the Ivy League is just a football conference – and what would make you think that the Ivy League day to day experience would be appreciably different from that of other elite schools?</p>
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<p>10char</p>
<p>Stop bashing OP about his statement; there are certainly people out there looking for the Ivy name.</p>
<p>CC likes to think that Ivies = sport conference only, but deep down 80% of the people on CC thinks Ivies = only way to win at life.</p>
<p>Most of all, the Ivy League is a lot of hard work. Generally, students are task-oriented, very busy, academics are their priority, but they find time for some fun. There is drinking, but less than you would find at other schools. Each Ivy has a somewhat different character. Each major has a somewhat different character. </p>
<p>I found students at Cornell to be very friendly and down-to-earth. Not elitist. Students are respectful of each other and of the faculty. Faculty are respectful of students, but have high expectations. There is a special feel at the Ivies. There is a culture and a tradition of excellence, societal interest and responsibilty, sophistication. Over four years, the Ivy culture gets into your blood. I have to say, it is a great feeling to be at an Ivy. The Ivies impart so many fine qualities to their students. You don’t appreciate it until you have been away for a while or at another school.</p>
<p>So, life at an Ivy is stressful, demanding, mixed with some good times, fulfilling and rewarding.</p>
<p>I would like to add that there are abundant opportunities to pursue even the most esoteric interests. You can make life at an Ivy what you want.</p>
<p>Finally, if you actually attend an Ivy League school, you won’t have to spend the rest of your life wishing you had and trying to rationalize your choice to do otherwise.</p>
<p>Most of all, Stanford/MIT/Duke/U Chicago/Wash U/Northwestern/Johns Hopkins/Rice/Emory/Vanderbilt/Notre Dame/etc. is a lot of hard work. Generally, students are task-oriented, very busy, academics are their priority, but they find time for some fun. Each has a somewhat different character. Each major has a somewhat different character. </p>
<p>I found students at Stanford/MIT/Duke/U Chicago/Wash U/Northwestern/Johns Hopkins/Rice/Emory/Vanderbilt/Notre Dame/etc. to be very friendly and down-to-earth. Not elitist. Students are respectful of each other and of the faculty. Faculty are respectful of students, but have high expectations. There is a special feel at Stanford/MIT/Duke/U Chicago/Wash U/Northwestern/Johns Hopkins/Rice/Emory/Vanderbilt/Notre Dame/etc. There is a culture and a tradition of excellence, societal interest and responsibilty, sophistication. Over four years, the school’s culture gets into your blood. I have to say, it is a great feeling to be at this school. The college imparts so many fine qualities to their students. You don’t appreciate it until you have been away for a while or at another school.</p>
<p>So, life at Stanford/MIT/Duke/U Chicago/Wash U/Northwestern/Johns Hopkins/Rice/Emory/Vanderbilt/Notre Dame/etc. is stressful, demanding, mixed with some good times, fulfilling and rewarding.</p>
<p>You know, I’m having a hard time telling the serious post from the parody these days.</p>
<p>Welcome to our postmodern society.</p>
<p>Thank you, Hawkette. Exactly.</p>
<p>“Finally, if you actually attend an Ivy League school, you won’t have to spend the rest of your life wishing you had and trying to rationalize your choice to do otherwise.”</p>
<p>I turned down Penn to go to NU. I loved NU and I’m equally sure I would have had a fine time at Penn; it was a tough decision. Why would I spend the rest of my life wishing I’d gone to Penn or rationalizing my choice to go to NU? How supremely odd, collegehelp. Do you think the OP, or any poster on this board, needs to have the Ivies portrayed as The Ultimate Destination So Incredibly Superior to Anything Else? Isn’t there enough madness among high school seniors on this board without acting as though the daily experience of being at an Ivy is appreciably different from the daily experience of being at *any top-level college?</p>
<p>Ivies may have started as a “football division”, but over time it has become a “top tier college division.” People want to go there because they are first tier schools, not because they are top tier football schools. That being said, each Ivy school is different. You wouldn’t get the same experience at each school. You should find a school that’s the right fit, whether it’s an ivy or not.</p>