Tufts vs. Penn

Colleges and Universities A-Z Tufts University
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<p>I would really like to be convinced, but using personal experiences as proof of a claim represents an anecdotal logical fallacy. </p>

<p><a href=“https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal[/url]”>https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is especially true when there is much stronger anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Several years ago, there was an entire book written on the culture of the Wharton undergrad program. This book was often discussed within the finance industry.</p>

<p>The book is called “The Running Of The Bulls, Inside The Cutthroat Race From Wharton To Wall St” by Nicole Ridgeway.</p>

<p>There was a review published in Forbes - a respected business magazine.
Here is a quote by an actual alum of Wharton. He had an interesting perspective because he was a double major.</p>

<p>“This opportunity is fraught with obstacles. Ridgway accurately describes the animosity that arises between Wharton and the other colleges at the university. There is a perception that Wharton holds itself above the other colleges at Penn. While Whartonites should be proud of their efforts and achievements, there are many individuals who perpetuate the stereotypes of “competitive, cutthroat, power-hungry” Wharton students. On the other hand, while proud of their Wharton pedigree, some students make efforts to play down that they attend Wharton to escape the animosity. For instance, being in a dual-degree program, where I was taking half of my classes at the engineering school, I often conveniently neglected to mention that I attended Wharton to my engineering classmates.”</p>

<p>Note that this last phenomenon is reminiscent of “dropping the H-bomb”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/19/wharton-mba-wall-street-cz_0819bookreview.html[/url]”>http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/19/wharton-mba-wall-street-cz_0819bookreview.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“Surviving the Wharton curriculum unscathed is an achievement in itself. Taking intensive classes in accounting, finance and statistics at the same time (as well as one or two additional classes) can cause deep anxiety. Furthermore, there is an intense rivalry among students, and some will go to extreme lengths to succeed. For instance, some students will “conveniently forget” to tell classmates about study sessions to gain an edge before an exam. Moreover, during an accounting midterm, one of my classmates was caught with answers pasted to the brim of his cap.”</p>

<p>Here is a quote from another Wharton double major form an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian:</p>

<p>““Purpose” is exactly what seems to be missing in Ridgway’s depiction of the undergraduate program. There is an inspiring drive for excellence and achievement at Wharton, but too often it is not intertwined with a sense of passion or broader purpose.”</p>

<p>“Wharton sent 63 percent of the Class of 2004 to work in financial services and an additional 19 percent to consulting. At some level, the school seems to recognize that it has a problem – that it is too homogeneous and students are placing undue pressure upon themselves to win “elite” jobs, rather than taking advantage of the opportunity to develop their individual interests. The school’s “culture” is consistently blamed for such problems, but the Undergraduate Division should also consider the structural deficiencies that affect this “culture.””</p>

<p><a href=“Wharton's culture conundrum | The Daily Pennsylvanian”>Wharton's culture conundrum | The Daily Pennsylvanian;

<p>Those familiar with the Tufts culture will notice that Tufts and Wharton represent opposite ends of a continuum and that there is lots of room in-between where other university cultures may reside.</p>

<p>It is also interesting to note that certain attributes tend to be associated with each other, while others tend to work against each other.
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This doesn’t mean one culture is better or worse than the other, only that they are different and some people will perform better in one and some people will perform better in the other. </p>

<p>As I said originally, just pick the environment where you are more comfortable learning (because that will result in you achieving the highest GPA possible)</p>

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<p>It appears that students are aggressively recruited into TFA - they don’t volunteer.
Also TFA has managed to position itself as a status symbol that one has to compete for.
That would explain the difference between the TFA data and Peace Corp data for the Ivies. </p>

<p>From the Crimson</p>

<p>“Harvard, according to Teach For America’s website, contributes more students than any other college of its size.”</p>

<p>“This surprising statistic is the result of Teach For America’s aggressive recruitment strategy here: five individuals—a recruitment manager, a recruitment associate, and three student campus campaign coordinators—are responsible for TFA recruitment at Harvard. This recruiting team forms a tight unit, rigorous and thorough. They aren’t on the “front lines” of the fight against educational inequality, but they are essential to TFA’s operation. Per size, Harvard has more recruiters than any other college in the area but for MIT, which has an equivalently -sized team.”</p>

<p>“In so structuring TFA’s recruitment, Kopp simultaneously appealed to students’ altruism and more selfish concerns: earning something competitive, and also commendable. At Harvard, where recruitment is even more aggressive than at most colleges, students are taking the bait.”</p>