<p>I was recently accepted at wharton, but I really wanted management and technology. How difficult is it for a student at wharton to transfer into management and technology?do applicants need to significantly exceed the minimum requirements?</p>
<p>but seriously</p>
<p>realistically you need at least a 3.8, even if the minimum says 3.4</p>
<p>Transferring into M&T is different from just transferring into a regular dual degree. The process is significantly more subjective so even a 4.0 does not guarantee your acceptance. There’s also the fact that there is a very limited number of spots available–I’ve heard around 5 but that may not be accurate</p>
<p>I believe on the website it says 50, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>The number of students accepted by transfer is equal to the number of students who drop out of the program. In my class, I believe it’s been 3 students. You effectively need a 4.0</p>
<p>Does anyone know what criteria the admission staff (or whoever judges the transfer) considers besides grades? Also, approximately how many are applying for the three or four spots?</p>
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<p>Really, the number of students who apply for the M&T transfer doesn’t matter. Available spots are determined by the number of M&T students who drop the program. And, then, available spots are filled by GPA in descending order. This is how any transfer process works at Penn. Priority is given to those that have the highest GPA’s.</p>
<p>So, as only 2-4 students a year (roughly) drop M&T, you can be sure that there are going to be a far greater number of students applying who will have a perfect or near-perfect GPA. Most of these students are also likely to have good recs, I would guess. I’ve never even heard anyone ever mention a case of a 4.0 GPA student turned down from an M&T transfer.</p>
<p>In short, transferring into M&T is pretty darn hard to do because you essentially need a perfect freshman year, which is not an easy feat for many, especially in Wharton.</p>
<p>So M&T is a closed door, so ok how do you combine tech with business if you’re doing something like computer sci/eng in SEAS? Cornell for ex allows dual majors between their tech and business schools.</p>
<p>You don’t need to be in the M&T program to qualify for a dual degree…If you’re in Wharton, you need a 3.0+ after freshman year to get into SEAS. If you’re in SEAS, you need a 3.8+ to get into Wharton. All M&T does is eliminate some requirements (although I’m not sure how many course units are actually exempted by the program). Another option, which I am personally considering, is a dual degree between CAS and SEAS in CSE and Economics (the 3.0 GPA requirement applies in this case as well). As someone on this board previously mentioned, the Economics degree at Penn offers access to many of the same recruitment opportunities available to Wharton students.</p>
<p>or, you can do the very popular engineering entrepreneurship minor program</p>
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<p>Transfering SEAS to Wharton didn’t sound so likely from the comments on the link below. And which school actually confers the degree when you’ve done a dual, SEAS or Wharton?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/684798-how-hard-transfer-wharton-seas.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/684798-how-hard-transfer-wharton-seas.html</a></p>
<p>It’s called a “dual degree” lol…you get a BSE from Wharton and a BSE/BAS from SEAS. Of course it’s not easy to get a 3.8 GPA and I would imagine this is especially true for freshman SEAS students…As I see it, the whole thing is more of a apply-if-you-can, forget-it-if-you-can’t kind of deal. Consider it icing on the cake if you manage a high GPA at the end of your freshman year, perhaps? Not that a Wharton degree is entirely necessary…if you take the time to browse the career surveys for SEAS, you’ll notice that students who graduate with a single degree in engineering do fairly well with the same companies that hire out of Wharton. My guess is that these people took advantage of the ‘One University’ policy and took classes at Wharton to supplement their engineering education and thus made themselves strong candidates for quant-heavy analytical positions.</p>
<p>So to sum up what’s been said:</p>
<p>Transferring into M&T is highly unlikely, so don’t worry about that unless you can get a 4.0</p>
<p>If you are in SEAS, maintain a very high GPA your freshman year and you can do a dual degree at Wharton. Wharton cares only about GPA for internal transfers. In other words, the school just ranks students and picks a certain number from the top. </p>
<p>If you are in Wharton, maintain a reasonable GPA and you should have no problem doing a dual degree with SEAS.</p>
<p>A dual degree, which is really not that different from M&T, means that you must fulfill the requirements for SEAS and Wharton. There will obviously be some double counting, but it usually means around 50 credits. </p>
<p>Upon graduation in 4 or 5 years, you will be given 2 degrees–a BSE in Economics from Wharton, and a BAS or BSE in engineering from SEAS.</p>
<p>Benefits of M&T over regular dual degree: You can graduate with 3 or 4 fewer classes, you will have some additional networking/recruiting opportunities (but not very significant), and most importantly, everyone thinks you are a genius (even though that is not always true)</p>