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<p>While a Wharton education isn’t exactly intellectual, you really shouldn’t equate it to “high school.” </p>
<p>Just be grateful that Stanford and Harvard do not see the “value” in vocationally-oriented undergraduate education. Otherwise, (hypothetically speaking, of course) a Stanford or Harvard undergraduate business degree would put Wharton “out of business.” (Did you enjoy my pun?)</p>
<p>^ haha that was so full of derision I couldn’t help but laughing. yes you’re very punny cardinalsinner</p>
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First of all, a Wharton education can be as intellectual as one wants to make it. Considering the number of liberal arts courses that a Wharton student can take, it’s quite possible to find a balance of practical and intellectual learning.</p>
<p>Second, how arrogant are you? Do you really believe that Wharton is so inferior to Stanford and Harvard? For the record, all three of these places have graduate business schools, and the Wharton MBA certainly competes with both Harvard’s and Stanford’s (many say it’s superior). Furthermore, Penn has had more Nobel laureates than any school besides Harvard over the past 10 years, so I’d say Stanford’s edge isn’t as dramatic as you think.</p>
<p>@DoleWhip</p>
<p>WHOOOOOSH!</p>
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<p>Between 1999 and 2009, the numbers of Nobel Prizes winners by institution were</p>
<p>6 Columbia
4 Cal
4 MIT
3 Stanford
3 Chicago
3 Caltech
2 Princeton
2 Harvard
2 Penn
1 Yale</p>
<p>1989 -2009</p>
<p>9 Stanford
9 MIT
8 Chicago
8 Columbia
7 Princeton
5 Harvard
5 Cal
5 Caltech
2 Yale
2 Penn</p>
<p>That’s odd - I actually count way more than 2 for Penn over the past 10 years. 2 in chemistry (3 if you add 1999), 1 in physics, 1 in economics, etc.</p>
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<p>My bad, I meant college lol.</p>
<p>And I count 2 Nobel laureates for Penn in 1999 alone. [List</a> of Nobel laureates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates]List”>List of Nobel laureates - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Not in the past 10 years, but still</p>
<p>[List</a> of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation]List”>List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Thank you, pewpewpew. That was exactly the list I used to back up Penn.</p>
<p>Yes, Stanford has more overall, as do a lot of schools. That’s called history, which obviously has a great influence on today’s perceived prestige. But if you consider the past ten years (aka what these universities are today), Penn really does shine (it certainly has more than 2). Which explains my rationale that Penn isn’t some inferior institution that doesn’t hold a single candle to Stanford, Harvard, etc. To think that way today is ridiculous, as HYPS aren’t the only places where one can become highly ‘intellectual.’</p>
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<p>some*, not many.</p>
<p>I believe ewho’s list is based on affiliation with university at time of acceptance of Nobel Prize or some other stricter measure of affiliation. Otherwise, Chicago would have had 3 in the past year alone, opposed to 3 only in the past 10 years.</p>
<p>Ok llpitch, think what you want. But Wharton is obviously one of the world’s premier business schools, and even if only ‘some’ would say it’s better than harvard/Stanford business schools (I disagree, but I’ll ignore that), that doesn’t change the fact that wharton still competes with them and is clearly one of the best. To be making petty remarks over word choice is just silly and doesn’t change the fact that Penn is an amazing institution.</p>
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<p>It is an easy counting problem. The site tells you where each person was affiliated when the Nobel was given. If you meant Penn alumni, that would be a different counting problem. Either way, your statement is not true.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://nobelprize.org/]Nobelprize.org[/url”>http://nobelprize.org/]Nobelprize.org[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I’m not saying it’s not amazing, but to say it’s superior to HBS/GSB would be silly. They are all in the top 3 though.</p>
<p>You’re comparing a program/college of a university with an entire university. You can’t do that.</p>
<p>I’d pick UPenn over the giant Taco Bell you call Stanford any day.</p>
<p>(joking about the Taco Bell remark, but seriously lighten up people)</p>
<p>^Yo quiero mucho el Taco Bell se llama Stanford!! <3</p>
<p>(Corrections to my Spanish are welcome.)</p>
<p>Quiero mucho el Taco Bell que se llama Stanford.</p>
<p>Yo is redundant and isn’t used by natives.</p>
<p>I thought Yo, though technically redundant, was still used for emphasis, even by natives? (or at least by native chihuahuas ; ) )
Thanks, precipitar y aplastar, or something to that effect.</p>
<p>on the stanford GSB/HBS vs wharton thing, I don’t know a lot of details about business school admission and how the yields work out, but I was talking with one of stanford’s admissions guys at the GSB and he told me that they only really have to be concerned with losing kids to HBS, since they lose so few to wharton. He basically said they didn’t even really have to entertain the thought of people picking wharton over the GSB as it happened so rarely.</p>