<p>I’m in the same boat as the OP. I like the insightful comments so far, but I was wondering whether anybody could expand upon the discussion of social life at each school. </p>
<p>Also, what if I’m at Wharton and I change my mind and don’t want to go into business? Do some Wharton undergrads go to, say, law school or get a PhD in econ? In essence, I am asking whether a Wharton degree is more constricting than a liberal arts degree…</p>
<p>You can pretty easily transfer out of Wharton into Penn CAS (it’s much harder the other way around)</p>
<p>I’m not sure where Acceptd go the idea that Dartmouth was “twice as fun.” Must be the 5 months of winter in Hanover</p>
<p>with a degree from Wharton, you can go anywhere and do anything. You have already proven exceptional personal and academic qualities by getting in and completing the program successfully and you have amazing insight and quantitative skills.</p>
<p>lol i used to visit Penn often with my friend and hang out. Now that he got into Wharton, he have absolutely no time left. He’s extremely stressed and I feel sorry for him. Wharton is too demanding for him, he should have done CAS instead.</p>
<p>^^ I actually thought Wharton’s workload wasn’t that bad?</p>
<p>It is very rare that a single degree Wharton student is “extremely stressed.” It’s understandable if his friend was doing a dual degree with engineering, but a single degree from Wharton is only around 4 classes a semester…</p>
<p>If he’s extremely stressed it’s not because the material is hard…</p>
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<p>Networking: Ur doin it rong.</p>
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<p>I could ask for how on earth you came to the conclusion that Dartmouth has 200% the level of fun units as Penn.</p>
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<p>Let’s see, I got IBD internship at JPMorgan…what am I doing wrong again?</p>
<p>I have nothing against networking; I do not disagree that it could open doors. However, for college students, it’s more useful at schools that are not heavily recruited. If recruiters are already reading your application and interviewing/talking to you, what are you hoping to accomplish through additional networking?</p>
<p>People love to throw around the word “networking” without really understanding the purpose of it. Sure, you can talk to recruiters at their information sessions, but do you really think that they will remember you during interview time after just talking to you for 2 minutes? </p>
<p>The same goes for alumni networking. At BBs, the most networking will do is get your application on the desk of the recruiter (or maybe get you a back office internship if you’re desperate). This is a difficult step for students at many schools, but not Wharton. Networking is not going to let you just skip the interview/recruiting process.</p>