<p>Do people from Wharton tend to be much more arrogant? Does it change over time?</p>
<p>You'll find arrogant pricks and humble individuals in all schools at Penn. And any school for that matter.</p>
<p>I dont know about arrogance, but I think there is a superiority complex. What confirmed this is my visit to the bookstore, and the sight of Wharton specific sweatshirts</p>
<p>There are also Nursing, Veterinary, and Engineering shirts - not to mention the "Not Penn State" shirts that seem to have dissapeared this year.</p>
<p>Once you're here, you'll find that nobody really cares after about the first week of class. There's just too much to do to waste time worrying about which school some other kid is in.</p>
<p>That said, Whartonites do tend to self-promote a bit more than average - it tends to come with the personality type that makes for success in finance and management.</p>
<p>Wharton MBAs wear more Wharton clothes than Wharton undergrads. The existence of a sweatshirt for a school is not a good measure of anything, other than school spirit (and the fact that every school can make money off of clothes with their name on it). Besides, the stock the bookstore sells is the bookstore's decision, not Wharton's.</p>
<p>I think there definately is a superiority complex when it comes to the amount of work they do. Whartonites somehow have it in their heads that they do more work than science majors or engineers or that their classes are somehow harder. I find this silly when one considers that lots of people take econ classes for fun (and don't give me that bs about econ being a college department), but no one does the same for organic chem, or intro bio for that matter.</p>
<p>Come into the dark recesses of the humanities and you'll still find elitism, I know people who look down on every major besides Philosophy. Or the snooty History kids. And I'm not kidding.</p>
<p>But, I've never met an elitist Communications major... maybe they're too busy with their lunchboxes.</p>
<p>lol, elitist humanists....thats just as ridiculous as it gets. "snooty history kids"..hahaha!</p>
<p>how intense is a pure math major at penn, and what does it encompass (like, do you concentrate on a single area of math, or many areas)? just curious really..;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.math.upenn.edu/ugrad/Undergrad.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.upenn.edu/ugrad/Undergrad.html</a>
So many smart people unwilling to see the answers readily available to them.</p>
<p>Wharton kids are trained. College kids are educated. Bam.</p>
<p>we are trained to educate you. bam (if it makes any sense)</p>
<p>Whartonites never were very good at rhetoric...sigh.</p>
<p>Take CLST-008. It might help.</p>
<p>i have to say, i really enjoyed the wharton superlative in 34th Street today</p>
<p>we are trained to dominate</p>
<p>well gopumas, as you can see, gmurguia is a clear example of the tiny but extant "wharton superiority complex"</p>
<p>It does exist, but not by much and as you can see there certainly doesn't seem to be much in the way of intellectual firepower behind it.</p>
<p>WhAtrTOnT!!111</p>
<p>DUDUrururrrrrrr</p>
<p>What if I told you that this year the Wharton admit rate was the same as Harvard and Yale (9%) and that the rest-of-Penn admit rate was more like Cornell's? Would that make Wharton people arrogant or just realistic that their school was at a different level of selectivity? I realize this doesn't entitle Whartonites to lord it over everyone else, but when, for example, people from Harvard and Cornell get together there is sort of an unspoken hierarchy (no one but a jerk would bring it up explicitly) so why shouldn't that same hierarchy exist in Wharton vs. rest-of-Penn?</p>
<p>Dude it's not that big of a deal. all this stuff only brings are new tensions because those who didn't feel that that way might start feeling it. And JohnnyK I'm just kidding I don't really think that way</p>
<p>For serious. Can't we all get along and realize that we're still better than everyone else without a upenn.edu email address?</p>
<p>Penn and Wharton wouldn't be what they are without each other. It's a symbiotic relationship of some sort...</p>
<p>It seems ridiculous to me. Many who apply to Penn arts and sciences and are interested in business do not apply to Wharton because they plan to go to business school anyway. It does not mean they would not have gotten accepted if they had applied.
The reality is that in the financial world of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, ect, most need the MBA to get pretty far. Most top firms have training programs and offer jobs to those out of college and expect that they will work two years and then get an MBA. Those who get these jobs after college do not need to have an undergraduate business degree. There really is not that much of an advantage to having the undergraduate degree. Those at Wharton undergrad might tell you other wise. I know many many very successful people in the business field and they all found they needed the MBA. Most went to college and then got a great job for two years and then applied to graduate schools like Wharton, Harvard Business School, Stanford Business school ect. Yes, there are many who will go to Wharton undergrad and never get an MBA but get a great job or go straight from undergrad at Wharton and then business school, but most will want to get the MBA anyway</p>