<p>I’ve heard UPENN students are very nice… and many other good things about the university in general.
as for wharton, the #1 business school, are there many pompous, snotty students there… what are they like? are they overly involved with politics/etc?</p>
<p>All I've noticed is that for the most part, Wharton students tend to be very insecure when it comes to their reputation(in a good way). In fact, most will go out of their way to make sure that you know that they don't think they're better than you cause they go to Wharton.</p>
<p>I don't know, quite a few people I have encountered will do anything to let you know that they ARE in Wharton. One girl I met not only told me she was a Whartonite, but that she had a 1600 SAT. I don't know where the hell that came from...</p>
<p>I'd assume they are like most other people. Corteous and modest or full of it :D</p>
<p>College>>>>Wharton</p>
<p>Okay having been a Whartonite I'm going to defend my fellow brethren. Wharton students are generally like every other student at any top notch school. They are ambitious, goal-oriented, work hard, over-achieving, etc. I wouldn't call them pompous or snotty, although everywhere you go you are going to find people like that so those people certainly exist. I was one of those people that didn't wear a Wharton label on my forehead because I didn't think it was important or necessary to do that. People have a certain stereotype of what Wharton students are like (competitive, cutthroat, elitist, etc) but I didn't want people to think I was like that because it isn't true. So I wouldn't bring it up unless someone asked or it came up casually in conversation, and generally people were "surprised" that I was in Wharton because I am so "normal." But we're all normal, people. Sure, there are folks with quirks, but when it comes down to it we're just like everyone else.</p>
<p>hey, im currently a whartonite. from what ive noticed, whartonites are just like everyone else. in fact, i hear more comments about wharton coming from non-whartonites. like my roommate or non-wharton friends would make some sarcastic comment if i bring up my management class or something. but the actual whartonites are just like everyone else.</p>
<p>I encounter the "typical" pretentious Whartonites. Although, I am unsure sure if they are doing that on purpose or it's that they are just so focused, they don't see how their behaviors are being perceived by others around them. I am in a little different position in that I am 32 years old and transferred into Penn to complete my undergrad degree in Econ/Management. Since, I have 13+ years of real world/professional work experience, I kind of chuckle, because as smart as Whartonites are, a lot of them have zero social skills. If anyone thinks that straight A's alone is going to lead to any amount of success, I hope they understand that social ineptness will ultimately hurt them in the long run.</p>
<p>I would think that any Penn student would come across as pretentious to someone with your experience. What classes or experiences have you had with Wharton students during your month at Penn that make them seem worse than everyone else?</p>
<p>Oh, they're not bad floks (Whartonites), I'm just saying I am probably reading them the wrong. I attempt to just say hello and they want to have no part of that. It may not be Wharton, it might just be the whole northeast. Since I am from Texas, it is a little different from where I came from.</p>
<p>Whoop whoop for Texas! Only place in the country that people don't look twice at you for wearing a cowboy hat.</p>
<p>Yeah, but I'm not in to the whole "cowboy" thing. Those for the folks that go to Texas A&M...lol.</p>
<p>Wharton students run the entire spectrum. Many are very nice and normal and don't go out of their way to tell you that they are at Wharton; they are just hardworking, focused students and they happen to be studying finance. So when they talk about an exam and how stressed they are, they don't bring up the fact that its a finance exam and the curve etc. Many though are arrogant and insecure. They need to tell you they go to Wharton the moment they meet you, so that you don't think that they are a lowly SAS student; when these students are with outsiders, they need to be sure to mention that Wharton is the #1 business school and Penn is Ivy because lets be honest, regular folks don't always know that and may think of them as lowly Penn State students. The breakdown at Wharton between normal and arrogant/insecure--i'd say its about 60-70% normal and 30-40% insecure.</p>
<p>There was 1 comment made though that was right on point--non-Wharton students have more to say about Wharton than Wharton students themselves sometimes. For the regular normal Wharton student, its often the case that they hear sarcastic/jealous comments from those in the other schools. Often its for dumb things like if they complain about an all nighter or having 2 exams in one day etc; these are things that every student at every college complains about. But if you're in Wharton, watch out because guaranteed, you will have someone make a Wharton comment. A lot of it is petty jealousy because there are a good number of students in SAS who would have liked to apply to Wharton and take as many classes as they can there but didn't apply because they didn't know if they could get in. </p>
<p>ThomasH--I don't know what year you are but wait until you see the socially awkward people during junior year and senior year recruiting. They totally realize that grades alone won't get them the IB job so wait until you see the networking and kissing up that goes on at that time; they totally turn on the social sides of their personalities and reduce their awkwardness around recruiters.</p>
<p>I am a junior (transfer). That's where I am seeing it. There's nothing wrong with not having obtained the social skills, it's just the ones that don't have it say they don't need social skills because straight A's from Wharton is good enough. The professors are totally livid when it comes to the students who state they don't need social skills. They actaully say this in the middle of class, and it's not just an isolated case; it's many of them have this belief.</p>
<p>Hinestly, I am not trying to be the "older" student trying to pint my finger at the younger adults and say "Now son, this is how it is supposed to be". I'm am not like that at all. I'm just trying to spread a little advice to the ones that haven't been out in the professional enviroment, yet. I believe in everyone in our classes helping everyone else out. That's what networking is all about, but I guess if some of the Whartonites have it all figured out, I will just let the go do their thing.</p>
<p>yuck...sorry about the typo's..</p>
<p>Wow..that's bold to announce in class that social skills don't matter if you have A's. These students have no clue. Wharton recruiting is one of those times that grades don't matter nearly as much as they should. So if these kids swagger into interviews thinking, of course I'll get any job I want because I have a Wharton 3.75 or 3.97 or whatever, they've got some surprises coming. Wharton recruiting is all about networking and fake socializing to some degree; interviewers don't care if you're the 4.0 but you act aloof and won't fit in with the rest of the outgoing, networking prone, party hardy summer i-banking class; they will take the outgoing 3.4 student over the aloof 4.0 every time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegejournal.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegejournal.com/</a></p>
<p>If you go the above link and clink on the article at the top right corner about top MBA schools, recruiters go into detail about how they are growing tiresome of the Wharton/Harvard attitudes and arrogance during interviews/recruitments.</p>
<p>Most of the Wharton students <em>I've</em> met never even told me they were in Wharton when I asked what their majors were, just that they were in "business." Which I think is kind of humble for people who are supposed arrogant pricks.</p>
<p>It's kinda funny cause the average college student I meet seems far more intelligent than most Wharton students I talk to. Wharton kids on the other hand seem to be more socially in. Kinda wierd i guess</p>