Transfer from Wharton to H/Y/S/M?

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<p>Hi everyone... </p>

<p>I'm a current W student, and I'm interested in applying to another school as a transfer. I want something with a more theoretical basis to economics -- I'm thinking about maybe even getting a Ph.D. in economics eventually -- and so I wanted to see if anyone had (or had any advice on) transferred from W to either H, Y, S, or M?</p>

<p>In another post about transferring I put up, I just mentioned HYP... of course now I realize that P doesn't accept transfers and S/M are also really great for econ (in fact I'm really loving MIT right now... A lot of my favorite professors are there... i.e. Jon Gruber @ MIT)</p>

<p>This is not the time to knock W. I absolutely love Penn and Wharton.... great city, awesome classes, great people.... and if you're reading this and you're a high school student looking for a business school, W is definitely the place to go. I'm just looking for something different (theoretical econ, not business econ) and I wanted to know if transfer is an option. </p>

<p>Thanks for your help guys!</p>

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<p>Penn’s Economics Department has been universally ranked among the top 10 in the country for many decades (and very close to Yale’s):</p>

<p>[Best</a> Economics Programs | Top Economics Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/economics-rankings?int=a299d1]Best”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/economics-rankings?int=a299d1)</p>

<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Economics](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html]NRC”>NRC Rankings in Economics)</p>

<p>If you love Penn and Philly as much as you claim, you could just transfer into the College, major in Econ (and even take a few more Wharton courses), and call it a day. :)</p>

<p>If you plan to enter a graduate economics program, you could even pursue Penn’s Mathematical Economics Major:</p>

<p>[Mathematical</a> Economics Major | Penn Economics](<a href=“http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/undergraduate-program/mathematical-economics-major]Mathematical”>http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/undergraduate-program/mathematical-economics-major)</p>

<p>In any event, Penn’s top-10 Economics Department ain’t exactly chopped liver, and shouldn’t be overlooked–especially at the undergraduate level. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Right. While transferring to Harvard, Yale, Stanford or MIT is a possibility, it’s a very, very remote possibility, more like a lottery ticket than a plan, even for the best student. In the meantime, you basically have the unfettered right to transfer to CAS. So, hmmm, you have a 1-2% chance of getting maybe 5% more than what you could get at Penn, vs. a 100% chance of getting at least 95% of what you would get at the best of those schools with the best of luck. (And, by the way, that 5%-95% is for illustrative purposes only. In fact, there’s probably no meaningful difference between what you can learn as an undergraduate at Penn vs. any of the others.)</p>

<p>I would start getting excited about the sure thing rather than wasting energy on the pipe dream. Your goal should be to go to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, maybe Chicago for your PhD, not your BA, and your best chance of doing that is to start right now making the most of your opportunities at Penn.</p>

<p>45 Percenter is right about Mathematical Economics, by the way.</p>