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<p>Coming almost exclusively from YOU. You really do need to stop before your anti-Penn ■■■■■■■■ gets you permanently banned from CC (believe me, it happens).</p>
<p>^ Um, have I said anything out of line here? I don’t think so. I’m just presenting my opinions, based on my experiences and readings, just as you’re presenting yours. I have better things to do than “■■■■■”.</p>
<p>EDIT: I have nothing but respect for Penn. In fact, Wharton was one of the schools I applied to before receiving my acceptance from Stanford, and deciding to enrol there. But, what you guys are saying is not entirely true. I have researched Penn, and there is most certainly a social hierarchy there.</p>
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VERY few CAS Econ majors do a dual-degree with Wharton. The vast majority of Wharton/CAS dual-degree students have a CAS major OTHER than Econ. In fact, in the Class of 2010, I count only 7 whose CAS major was Econ (see pages 17-20):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/undergrad/reports/WHA_2010cp.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/undergrad/reports/WHA_2010cp.pdf</a></p>
<p>Your ■■■■■■■■ is REALLY getting out of hand.</p>
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<p>I’m presenting facts and hard data, and you’re presenting completely unsubstantiated negative slurs.</p>
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<p>^ There are no more than 15 BB placements under “Economics”. If even 3 (minimum, could be all 7) are going to Dual-Whartonites, then it shows that one’s odds at landing BB IBD aren’t very good out of Penn-CAS.</p>
<p>^ I count 24 BB placements for 2010 CAS Economics grads, and according to the Wharton 2010 Survey, only 4 dual-degree grads with a CAS Econ major went to a BB bank.</p>
<p>But besides that, there’s a helluva lot more to the world and business than just BB banks, you silly child. Your naivete and high-school obsession with what you perceive as “prestigious” from your teen-age perch continue to shine through.</p>
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<p>Lol, that’s still pretty terrible. 20? Even Cornell and Georgetown do better.</p>
<p>I know that BBs are nowhere near the “most prestigious” in finance. I just used them for comparison sake because most PEs and HFs only recruit out of HPS and Wharton.</p>
<p>You may have researched Penn, but you obviously don’t go here so you have no authority on Penn’s “social hierarchy”. I have “researched” schools like Harvard and have “heard” from several people that undergrads do not receive as much attention as expected, but as I have never visited Harvard so I would never try to advertise that as a fact. And you seem to forget that studying Economics can potentially be very different than studying business. It’s kind of like study molecular biology without planning to go into medicine. Economics is a lot more theoretical than what you learn in business school which even the Wharton kids will tell you. Finance is not the only option for people who study these disciplines. And plenty of kids in engineering and math/physics get those jobs too, if they want them.</p>
<p>What are Wharton fraternities?</p>
<p>@PrincetonDreams: So you were rejected by both Princeton and Penn? Why are you ****ed? You still have Stanford lol.</p>
<p>^No he hasn’t been rejected by either Penn or Princeton. </p>
<p>PD: chill. I’m not sufficiently acquainted with Penn’s social structure, but I do know that Penn CAS isn’t nearly as bad as you’re making it out to be.</p>
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<p>Please don’t respond to PrincetonDream. He obviously doesn’t have anything better to do than aggravating you, as he indicated. You guys are practically asking for his ■■■■■■■■. I hope you guys find better things to do than arguing with a person who deserves absolutely no attention.</p>
<p>Most of Penn is dominated by College of Arts and Science students, I recently visited via Penn Preview Day and this really was the case, though any student can take classes and usually will take classes in any of the programs.</p>
<p>When people ask me where I went to college, I tell them that “I studied business at Penn”, not that I went to Wharton. I root for Penn Basketball and have a Penn bumper sticker. The only place that Wharton every really shows up is in my official “bio” or an intro when I am giving a talk. Just a handful of my lifelong college friends actually were Wharton students, most came from the other schools.</p>
<p>In my experience, we all cared for the first month of school as freshmen and then stopped caring. We live with each other, study with each other, do extracurricular groups with each other, party with each other, sleep with each other ;)</p>
<p>“sleep with each other” I love that last part :p</p>
<p>A lil bit off topic, I’ve heard that Annenberg School of Comm @ Penn is a top Comm school and it is flooded with pretty girls! Is it true? I will not be majoring in Comm but might take a few courses at Annenberg for that sole purpose … erm … no …actually for academic enrichment in terms of electives. of coz. ;)</p>
<p>A friend from my school is choosing Wharton over Yale this year but he NEVER says he’s going to Penn; for him, Penn and Wharton are two different entities. He even got a “Wharton” shirt instead of a Penn one. Apparently, most Wharton students prefer to wear Wharton-branded shirts. If there wasn’t a social hierarchy at Penn, why would these guys feel the need to advertise their Whartonite status so much?</p>
<p>debarghya9, I’m not saying that the CAS at Penn is bad. Penn is a world-class institution, and there is no disputing that. What I’m trying to say is that there most definitely is a social hierarchy at Penn, which these posters are refusing to acknowledge. It’s funny how most of them are in Wharton. :)</p>
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<p>I wasn’t rejected by any school. :)</p>
<p>@PrincetonDreams:
Colleges generally don’t have a “social structure” in the same way high schools do. There are generally many more students, economic differences are less noticable (no one’s dorm room is 10 times bigger than everyone else’s, no one drives to class in a Ferrari), students are more mature and most of them are outgrowing the “popular kids” mentality that dominates adolescence. Certainly there are still plenty kids like that, but they can generally be avoided without much trouble. Opiniions of applicants on College Confidential or friends at high school are just high schoolers projecting their experience with high school onto college, since it is what they know, but does not reflect the developmental changes that take place in college.</p>
<p>To the extent that there is a social hierarchy in college, it is more reflective of the usual things that make people popular such as looks and personality. For most people, what department you are in is pretty far down on the list, especially considering that any student who gets accepted at a school like Penn has to be pretty strong to begin with.</p>
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<p>Hey homerj. If you think there is no social hierarchy at Penn wrt to schools, please answer the above question.</p>