<p>Would this be correct based on selectivity and education?</p>
<p>Praytell, to what does ">" refer? </p>
<p>Whatever you're asking about (income, happiness, ease of entry?)... everything is what you make of it. There are people attending community colleges who will wind up wildly successful because they work extremely hard and take advantage of all the opportunities around them. (A friend of mine who went to Kent State in Ohio now heads a major non-academic department at a top 20 school. SHE's in charge of 10 employees who are all ivy league grads).
Conversely, there are people coming out of Harvard, Penn and Stanford who won't amount to anything. </p>
<p>All the schools you mentioned are amazing. If you're fortunate enough to be accepted at some or all, choose whichever you feel has the most to offer in terms of what educational and extracurricular avenues you intend to pursue IN school, not what you think will "help you out" later in life. </p>
<p>I think they all try to screen out applicants who only apply based on the prestige.</p>
<p>Personally, as far as how well you're going to do in the future: I'd rank Penn (all of Penn, not just Wharton. Granted, if you're going to Wharton you probably already know what you're going to do and you're probably going to be determined, but say, if you know you want to become a doctor and you go to The College because that's the type of education you want, there simply is no disadvantage) and Stanford as number 1.</p>
<p>">" refers to "better than"</p>
<p>does anyone know about the specifics? like selectivity...????what percentage..etc?</p>
<p>If you want to go into business, Wharton is a far better place for you to be.</p>
<p>Yeah, for business (and imho, everything! except for becoming a teacher or other related professions!) Penn is the better place for you to be.</p>
<p>You can't really judge selectivity because you have to take into account who applies. For example, UCLA admits fewer students as a percentage of total applied than the University of Chicago does, but that doesn't mean that Chicago is easier to get into or is a worse school.</p>
<p>oook...gotcha. Thanks.</p>
<p>a lot of the small investment banks only hire from wharton. it takes money to visit a school, interview students, and train new workers who were econ and english majors. they can get everyone they need (they have smaller class sizes too) at wharton sot hey don't bother going anywhere else. the big banks hire from everywhere "good," but the smaller ones won't. </p>
<p>this isn't important i guess if you plan on being at the top of your class, but wharton's competitive and a lot of smart people for whatever reason will be in the upper part of the class but not high enough to merit a job at goldman.</p>
<p>as for selectivity, i really don't think anyone would notice differences in a few percents or a few points on the SAT. my numbers may be a little old but the top 1% of all testtakers get 1480-1600 and the next 1% get 1440-1480. after 1400 in my opinion you're just splitting hairs.</p>