Hey all – Wharton/Penn alum but it’s been over a decade. Just got asked this question and IDK how to answer with current knowledge – how hard or easy is it really to internally transfer from College to Wharton nowadays? I know the pendulum has swung back and forth on this.
When I was there, they made the GPA requirements harder – you had to have a 3.7 to even be considered and then they basically ordered the potential transferee list top to bottom based on GPA and the top x number of people got in (in my class year it was ~10) and the people who got in were really in the 3.9+ range.
A few years later, it seemed like it had gotten MUCH easier because there was a class year where like 60 people applied and almost all got in. And then it seemed like the school took notice of that back door and started saying you could get transfer consideration at around a 3.4+ GPA but there’s an essay where you have to explain what has changed since last year that now you want to be in the business school; so I imagine that’s cut the transfers back from ~60 to some more “reasonable” number and maybe also opened it up a bit where it’s a less formulaic process. Like if it’s glaringly obvious to them from last year’s CAS essay + the transfer essay that you intended to transfer in all along, they can say no even if you have a 3.8.
So how is it right now? Any idea how many people have gotten in say in the current soph or junior class?