The basics:
<li>I want to go into business.</li>
<li>I LOVE the atmosphere at MIT.</li>
<li>If I went to MIT for business, people would probably assume I was too dumb to survive in the engineering program.</li>
Where do I go? Where would you go? HELP!
<p>just because of reason #1, wharton is the way to go.</p>
<p>did you get accepted to wharton and mit already? that's very awesome. CONGRATS!</p>
<p>My dad went to MIT Sloan he told me that the teachers are simply amazing!</p>
<p>Wharton is (theoretically) the better school, but if you love MIT and are not so keen on the Wharton atmosphere, pick MIT. I know plenty of Wharton kids who struggle to deal with the environment there. That's all second hand information though, so take it with as big a grain of salt as you like.
Visiting is probably the best way to go, try and do overnights or hang out with students there. Go to classes, sit and eat lunch in Huntsman hall/whatever the MIT equivalent is, soak up the atmosphere, etc.</p>
<p>MIT Sloan is #2, so i dont think the ranking is the issue. if you like the atmosphere at MIT, go ahead and accept MIT. youll have more freedom if u change ur mind about business anyway.</p>
<p>No one can say that MIT offers a business education inferior to that of Penn's.</p>
<p>Feeling obliged to stick up for my school just a little bit...if you went to Wharton and decided after a semester or a year that it wasn't what you wanted, it's super easy to transfer from Wharton into the College. Doing it the other way round, however, is not quite so easy! And although the College might not have the same academic clout as MIT, you would have a lot more options.</p>
<p>i'm pretty much set on business - while i might move around in the field, that's definitely the general area i want to pursue.</p>
<p>anyone here ever hear of peope making the wharton-sloan choice that can tell me what they did and why?</p>
<p>thanks for all the opinions!</p>
<p>Congratulations on your acceptances to both of these great schools, eighteenforluck! As has been said by others on this thread, both schools offer great business schools. It seems that you answered your own question in #2, by saying that you enjoy MIT's atmosphere more. However, regarding #3: I don't think people will think you're "dumb" simply because you're pursuing business at MIT.</p>
<p>See, I am scared to go to MIT for business or biology because I think people will assume I'll die if I do engineering (which I really can't do anyway)</p>
<p>Oh how can people assume your dumb if you were accepted by MIT in the first place?</p>
<p>i see alot of people saying they want to go into business and yet i have never understood the reasons for majoring in business or majoring in sections of business, such as accounting, etc. business is innate, dealing and negotiating are not skills that can be taught to you. yes accounting can be taught, but why pay $40,000 to an institution that will teach you about number crunching tax forms. the issue i have with wharton is that it is attempting to teach people business when truthfully, middle eastern bazaars and the negotiating tactics within those "primitive" markets is performatively the same as haggling on the floor of the nyse. it seems as though the business leaders who succeed are those who have a passion from the start and actually pursue some undergraduate technical degree to fuel their expertise in a specific arena. for example, meg whitman of eBay and bill gates specifically chose technical undergrad degrees to understand the technical side and "make use" of the programmers and the technology in a business sense. i do not understand the value of the undergrad wharton degree. i do understand the value of MBA's because of the connections they provide to new business men and women, however these connections are strictly for business use. it seems to me that there has been some unwarranted prestige attached to the wharton degree and/or business undergrad degree and really, there's nothing special about it. sorry to be so direct to all the people considering undergrad degrees but i dont understand the value of it.</p>
<p>^^ precisely why many elite universities don't have undergrad business programs.</p>
<p>persianking: the wharton, and sloan for that matter, admissions process is so competitive that it weeds out slackers and takes the best of the best, the ambitious, etc.</p>
<p>undergrad business teaches you a lot of the same things you'd learn from grad business, just gives you back 2 years of your life to earn money instead of sit in a classroom. just my thoughts.</p>