McIntire v. Wharton

[Venkat89]

<p>Wharton will give you better opportunities at some places. Whether that is enough to go to Wharton depends on your personality and financial situation (in state for UVA is a steal). </p>

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2. Studying in the Arts & Sciences school for two years is a positive thing. You can take some very interesting classes, have the ability to double major(or minor), plus you would still be taking the prerequisite business school classes (2 accounting, 2 econ, statistics, etc.).

Wharton students have to take nearly half of their courses in Arts and Science. In Wharton you start your curriculum as a frist semester freshman. It’s a bit nicer to get requirements out of the way in 4 years instead of putting them all into 2. I can’t really say that most Wharton students I know dive too much into their humanities electives beyond what is necessary, but that comes with the territory of being very preprofessional.</p>

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3. The student body is more well rounded at UVA. While UPENN is a top school, I find that the Wharton students have the reputation of being extremely intense and cut-throat when it comes to their school work. McIntire kids of course care a lot and want to succeed, but I feel that there is a real laid back atmosphere here.

I wouldn’t call Wharton cutthroat. It’s competitive, but there is too much teamwork to compete against eachother. Wharton students compete with eachother for top grades.</p>