<p>I was stumbling around the net, and found this site. I just finished my Freshman year at Wharton, so if anyone has any questions feel free to ask.</p>
<p>Class of 2009, get ready, because you will love it here.</p>
<p>TheButton, i'm going to be a sophomore transferring to Penn for engineering. what are the best housing options for transfers? also, check out my penn banking thread. thanks!</p>
<p>I would recommend applying for the high rises (harrison/hamilton/harnwell) or the quad. You will be with a good amount of upperclassmen then.</p>
<p>I'll go check out your other thread.</p>
<p>Nice to meet a Wharton student!=]</p>
<p>Some of the people who go to wharton say that the workload is nuts and that the courses are very difficult. Do you feel that way too or does it depend on the courses you take and your efforts(lol)?</p>
<p>because I'm thinking that if Wharton workload is that much of a burden, Jerome Fisher and Huntsmand students are going to be going crazy in their sophomore year =]</p>
<p>what's the best way to get, like.. efficient study groups? or does that usually not work and it's better to study alone?</p>
<p>I have never worked so hard in my life. To do real well you have to work
very hard, but to pass it will be easier than high school because of the so called Wharton curve (it ends up being around, 25% A, 50% B, 25% C). The first class you take at Wharton is MGMT100, which is a group community service project. To give you an idea, you spend about 20-30 hours a week, just on that class.</p>
<p>Like I said in the post above, one of the first courses you take at Wharton is MGMT-100. The schools assigns you a group of 9-12 people. My study group ended up being with 2-3 people from my MGMT-100 team. Very few people study completely on their own, and I found that without my study group, I would not have done nearly as well.</p>
<p>TheButton is right. My take on Wharton studying/grades...you can easily get B's at Wharton but for A's you really have to work. As for studying, I never found study groups to be that helpful as a frosh because everyone takes such different classes; some people are devoting time to getting their language, math, and writing requirements out of the way while some are jumping straight into the Wharton core curriculum [and there is every permutation in between]. I didn't feel like a really got to know a lot of wharton people well enough to study with them as a frosh [I didn't know their study styles; how serious they were about grades etc--I didn't feel it was a good idea to study with someone just because they were nice]. Study groups can be helpful for the Wharton core curriculum [stat 101-102, accounting 101-102, finance 100-101, operations & info mgmt 101]. Those classes have little to no group work but you do get HW [most is not for grading, just for your learning], so depending on how you learn, it may be good to have a study group to work on those problem sets with, especially if you're getting frustrated and can't come up with the entire analysis on your own. Junior & senior year there are tons of group projects in every class and you have far more flexibility so you may take classes with the same friends/peers in every semester and thus have a built in study group.</p>
<p>Study however you feel comfortable. If you were the type of HS student who really benefited from quizzing with friends for hours for AP exams, you'll likely want to do that at Wharton too. If you were the type who always learned on their own, then don't feel pressured to find a study group. Also, don't be fooled into thinking that your study group studying alone will be sufficient. No matter how serious other students are, you know that when you work with others, you end up chatting, taking breaks for coffee, blowing through some of the material quickly cause everyone just wants to be done already... Plus this is Wharton and even though it isn't overtly cut throat, there is competition. So I wouldn't just rely on 2-3 people that seem nice--unless they are very good friends of yours, its very likely that during study meetings, they are realizing certain details about the material that they're not sharing because they want to be the only one to get it on the midterm and thus do better on the curve; its also likely that these same people will study with you for 3 hours and then go home and study by themselves again for another 5. Personally, I did quite well but used no study groups for the first 1.5 years; at that point, I had made several very good friends who I knew had high GPAs and took school/studying very seriously. Even then I only did occasional study session with them--ex: 2 days before a midterm we'd meet for 5 hours and go through every single thing from our class notes/practice exams. That style worked better for me than meeting every week for 2hr to review that week's material--I found frequent meetings pointless because people were less prepared and interested when the pressure wasn't on. I will say though, sometimes its good to study with friends just for your own sanity because the material can get detailed and/or boring and its good to have other around to motivate you. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask/PM other questions.</p>