<p>I heard the Wharton Grad school doesn’t accept very many students from the Wharton undergrad, that they prefer students from other schools. True?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>However this is hardly unique to Wharton. Institutions like to have institutional diversity.</p>
<p>I might be wrong, but I still believe that the greatest percentage of its freshman class is from wharton undergrad.</p>
<p>I heard that too. So I asked, and received this reply:</p>
<p>"I have never heard that before. There are actually a number of former Wharton undergraduates who are currently now MBAs. </p>
<p>One thing that we do know is that only about 30% of Wharton undergrads ever go on to get an MBA (we survey grads up to 15 years out). They end up with the same jobs and same salaries as those who go back for their MBAs so their undergraduate degree is largely seen as a terminal degree (only 50% go on for any advanced degree).</p>
<p>If Wharton undergrads do go back for their MBA, they usually don't come back to Wharton. You really are getting an MBA quality education (same faculty, many similar if not same courses, etc.) so they don't feel the need to come back and do the same thing all over again. They are more likely to go to b-school at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, etc., not Wharton."</p>
<p>So it seems that people choose not to, but they can.</p>