How does the admissions process work for UPenn Wharton? Do they have a separate application pool? How do you apply specifically for Wharton?
Sorry, but this is all answered on the U web site.
Penn has 4 undergraduate colleges: Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, and Wharton. You apply to one of these. You may take (a limited number of) courses at colleges other than your home college. There are majors that are cross college. Transfers from one college to another are not guaranteed. So choose your home college with care. The acceptance is to that college. In practice acceptance rates differ from college to college.
See: http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/apply/freshman-admission/faq
I think both Wharton and Engineering have an extra essay, in addition to the “Why Penn” essay, IIRC.
Is the SAT scores, GPA and acceptance rate for Wharton the same as reported by UPenn as a university, or is each school different?
Look on Penn’s website. It’s really a very good comprehensive site. If you still have questions, email them. Chances are, you’re not the first person with these questions,.but make sure this information isn’t on their site, especially on the first page or one click away.
Post #4, I think Wharton is very selective, IIRC it’s in the 6% years ago, could be worse now.
From what I have seen, Wharton is a lot more selective than Penn CAS/Engineering. While there have been a lot of rumors of insanely low acceptance rates (although when you ask admission officers, the only comment they will give is that the acceptance rates are very similar across all of their schools), I don’t think the selectivity parallels HYPSM. I know multiple people admitted into their M&T program, which is more selective than Wharton- most of them didn’t make HYPSM, and the ones that did, picked HYPSM over M&T.
I also think Wharton values business EC’s a lot, and is also heavily admitting groups traditionally underrepresented in the business world.
There is one program at Penn that is more selective than Wharton, the program name after the father of one of 2012 presidential candidate, the name escaped my head at the moment, but for that program, most kids got accepted to at least one HYP, maybe not Harvard.
@DrGoogle Are you thinking of Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology? That is a tiny uber-competitive program that earns a degree from both Wharton and Penn Engineering.
Nonetheless, for the OP, Wharton is more selective than most of the rest of Penn - similar to HYP from what I gather. I’d imagine that there will be a place on the application where you have to indicate which school you are applying to.
I’m thinking of Huntsman program. I think it’s more selective than M&T program at Penn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_Program_in_International_Studies_and_Business
Fisher M&T and Huntsman are similarly super-selective (and awesome), fwiw.
@bigshrimp wharton is more selective than penn cas pr seas but not a lot more selective. like the acceptance rate is around 1 to 2 percentage points below the overall Penn acceptance rate, a bit higher than HYP. it doesnt make sense for the acceptance rate to be as low as hyp since the overall acceptance rate would have to be lower than 10%. (seas acceptance rate has always been a little bit lower than the overall ar and also cas is right on or a tiny bit higher, and nursing is much higher but there are very very few students so the overal ar isnt affected as much by that–( cas doesnt really publish acceptance rate but seas has published it from time to time on their website and so has nursing)
m &t, lsm and huntsman are probably as selective as hyp tho.