<p>a friend of mine is debating over penn/mit, she’s interested in aero engin. and business, she got into wharton</p>
<p>opinions? i’ve been arguing for penn for the past hour but it’s getting no where</p>
<p>As much as I love Penn and despise everything about MIT (my entire family went/goes there, so I know pretty much everything there is to know about that place) I'd actually pick MIT if she wants both, because MIT does have Sloan, which is freaking awesome, you know. My understanding is that if someone wants a real engineering degree plus a business degree, it takes more than four years, whereas I think it's possible in 4 years at MIT. Also, MIT engineering >>>>>>> everyone else's engineering, and the gap between Sloan and Wharton is not overwhelming in my opinion.</p>
<p>If she wants aerospace, you gotta go to MIT. It really depends on what she wants out of uni...purely academically speaking, I'd chose MIT. But if she cares about things like a healthy social life or whatever, Penn will be a better "college experience" (unless she just loves MIT's environment, some people do, and in that case she should def. go there).</p>
<p>Besides, a woman at MIT most definitely should have her pick of the litter, as it were :)</p>
<p>In her case, I would go with MIT, unless she hopes to combine engineering and business and transfer into Jerome Fisher. Even then, she could do business at Sloan...</p>
<p>I have a friend who got into Jerome Fisher and is really disatisfied because he has to take extra session so that he can get a "real" engineering degree. His first choice was MIT over Penn, as he wanted to get a really strong engineering background to accompany his business degree. According to him, the Jerome Fisher degree is not a "real" engineering degree and is of little use when up against people with more focused ones.</p>
<p>Jerome Fisher is good if you really want to combine engineering with business. You can think of the program as a "comprehensive" double major...less major requirements, so you're really not taking all the engineering and business courses normal SEAS and Wharton kids would take. If you want a "real" engineering degree, go to MIT.</p>
<p>Eh, you only lose out on a couple of classes, and none of them are from the core engineering major. What he should be referring to is that alot of people in M&T do a BAS, which is not an "actual" engineering degree, instead of the BSE, for reason of laziness or time or whatever.</p>
<p>For one thing, transferring into M&T is a lot harder than it sounds... just look at the requirements for it.</p>
<p>In terms of Penn or M&T... if engineering/science is your bag then definitely do MIT. But I visited MIT (albeit only once) and felt that it doesn't hold a candle to the social experience at Penn. Not only that but Penn's business and engineering (especially combined) is a powerful coupling. But if you're not doing M&T and engineering is huge for you, I don't see Wharton giving you what you need.</p>