<p>Hey guys, i was wondering what the admit rates for wharton undergrad and other schools were at Upenn. Also, is it easy to transfer into Wharton if you desire? And when you are applying, do you get to choose 2 majors in the case that you don't get into Wharton but are very competitive ? Thanks!</p>
<p>UPenn does not release the admit rate for its individual schools as often as it used to. However, the DP (the campus newspaper) says that the nursing school has a 20% acceptance rate this year. The admit rate you see in USNEWS&WR is a composite of the four undergraduate institutions.</p>
<p>Moving on- It is not easy to transfer into Wharton. If you want to INTERNALLY transfer you must meet a set of requirements and apply (which isn’t too hard) but is not easy either. But transferring into Wharton from another school is really really really hard.</p>
<p>Finally- you don’t pick “majors” when applying to Penn; you pick undergraduate schools. You can choose the college of arts and sciences, wharton, engineering, or nursing and NO you cannot pick two. If you aren’t good enough for Wharton you probably aren’t good enough for CAS either (in case you were wondering). So even if you’re “very competitive” you clearly aren’t as competitive as you think you are if you get rejected from any one of penn’s four schools. </p>
<p>I apologize if you felt i was a little rude but it is rude to assume that you’re good enough for penn’s other programs even if you aren’t qualified enough for Wharton. ALL of them have outstanding students and outlandishly competitive admissions competition.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. I was just wondering the relative acceptance rates; i was not assuming that a denial from Wharton still means acceptance at another school. by very competitive, i was just referring to the case that Upenn thought you were quality enough for the school but not Wharton in general. Thanks, though.</p>
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<p><em>standing ovation for Penntwenty4teen</em></p>
<p>@ihcc12345: so you’re saying that transferring from let’s say CAS to Wharton isn’t too hard (easier than transferring from different university) right? u said school but i think u meant college…just wanted to make sure</p>
<p>transfering to Wharton from another college is darn near impossible. Transfering to Wharton from one of Penn’s other schools is very competitive but very do-able (3.8+ gpa which can be done by taking easier classes)</p>
<p>I actually just met a girl who started in CAS and now will be doing a dual degree in Wharton. She said it wasn’t incredibly hard to transfer, she just had to have at least a 3.8 and take econ and some other requirements. She didn’t seem to think that getting the grades was that difficult.</p>
<p>I personally agree with that girl but most people (regardless of stats) don’t have the highschool rigor background to pull it off.</p>
<p>She did go to a pretty well known private school so that probably explained why she was prepared to do the work.</p>
<p>A common tactic is to take joke classes aside from the required ones (Econ001/002, Math104), not that the required classes are terribly difficult either.</p>
<p>However, that begs the question of why you didn’t apply to Wharton to begin with, as your motives are apparent if you are aiming for transferring to Wharton from the start of freshman year.</p>
<p>I can definitely defend the original poster here for not applying to Wharton to begin with, but wanting to have the option of transferring later. I’ll be applying to Penn CAS this year. I’m not entirely sure what I want to major in, and only recently have begun seriously thinking about my future career. I’ve begun to realize that I like economics, but I don’t want to commit myself to business without exploring all the other options. Furthermore, I really want a traditional liberal-arts education to start out with. </p>
<p>Many people give me funny looks when I explain to them I want to study economics at Penn, but not at Wharton. I don’t want to commit to studying business and going into a business-related field yet, but I don’t want to eliminate the option of studying at Wharton either. The fact that I love the UPenn campus doesn’t hurt either.</p>
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<p>Many people, simply put, are dimwits ;)</p>