<p>"more practical and quantitative"</p>
<p>there i fixed it for you</p>
<p>Penn has an amazing campus... the best of any school in my opinion</p>
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Econ and math majors tend to get the highest scores on the LSATS
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That's just a trend. That doesn't mean that if you major in econ or math you will score higher than a philosophy major on the LSAT or higher than a Wharton student. IMO, you should get the same score regardless of your major because your intelligence is not dictated by what you major in.</p>
<p>Ok, so now what I'm beginning to see is that many Wharton undergrads choose not to get an MBA because they have the knowledge already. But say for the sake of argument that I wanted an MBA for the networking. If I went to Wharton, would top business schools, maybe even Wharton itself, hold the fact that I've already learned much of what I'm going to learn in an MBA program against me? I called HBS this morning and they were vague as hell, saying that they want a "diverse" student body. I got the same idea from my call with Stanford's GSB. Haven't tried Wharton yet. Anyways, does that mean they want more econ majors than business majors because of what they could bring or does that mean more about where the applicant ended up working? Maybe WhartonAdvisor can answer this.</p>
<p>As for the LSATs, I feel Wharton actually has the upper hand here because I could take classes at Penn's law school to help the studying, whereas I know for a fact I can't at Harvard. At the same time, I feel like an econ degree, with its heavier emphasis on math, could also help on LSAT scores, since it makes sense to me (maybe I'm just stupid and strange) that the logic developed in math classes could be used in law. But I could take more math classes at Wharton too.</p>
<p>Anyways, thanks to everyone who's helped so far and hopefully I can get a decision by May 1st!</p>
<p>No business school is going to look down on you for going to Wharton as an undergrad. In Wharton's MBA program it's about 1/3 engineers, 1/3 liberal arts, and 1/3 econ/business in terms of what people did their undergrad in. I don't know the breakdown at other top schools but I am guessing it would be similar.</p>
<p>I think MBA programs recognize that students are going through them largely for networking purposes. So it doesn't "count against you" that you may know a lot of the material. If anything, it will get you out of taking intro classes and let you take more upper-level electives.</p>
<p>Obviously, I'm a little biased, but I think that you can get a lot from being at Wharton/Penn that you can't get from being at Harvard (or YP). We really do have an edge in terms of the flexibility and different academic opportunities that students have access to. And I mean REAL access to. You really can take law school classes (they advertise courses in the DP and send undergraduate advisors lists of courses and ask us to encourage students to take them). You can take MBA classes - even PhD level courses if you're advanced enough. It's really pretty amazing.</p>
<p>Alright, so I guess the original criterion is out.</p>
<p>Anyone have any idea how I should go about distinguishing between the two?</p>