<p>Go to Oxford if you wish to work in London. Go to Wharton if you wish to work in New York. It's that simple.</p>
<p>But is an Oxford degree virtually unusable in the US? How about if it is accompanied by a Rhodes Scholarship?</p>
<p>it's certainly not unusable, it's just that the major firms know exactly what they're getting in a wharton degree (and why they recruit oh-so-heavily here), whereas an oxford ppe degree with no other business training is likely more of an unknown quantity to them.</p>
<p>would you get an mba if you went to oxford, perhaps from said, or london business school?</p>
<p>You know...I still don't understand how you can be that confident. Getting into Wharton isn't about getting perfect grades. Your personality shown in your essays matter a great deal in my opinion.
I have no idea how the admission system at Oxford works. However, if it is similar to the Asian systems, you are getting in no problem since they only look at grades.</p>
<p>If you were to pick one for the sole intellectual purpose of PPE, I'd probably pick Oxford--even then, only for the advantage of the Oxford brand name, not the actual quality of education (while Penn is certainly no liberal arts college, you would definitely have a more favorable ratio of faculty, money, and undergraduates here).</p>
<p>But since you clearly see education as a means to a predetermined end (finance), it seems like you were made for Wharton (that is, provided you have some extracurriculars on your application...)</p>
<p>wharton is better for what you want to do. it won't teach you much of anything else though. also, learn a foreign language in the next year. it's not that hard.</p>
<p>enjoy your midlife depression.</p>
<p>I dont think you need to view the core as necessarily a bad thing. To be honest, coming in I had the same idea as you. I wanted to study only finance but at a quant level (statistics, financial deriv's, stochastic processes etc), but once you take some of these core classes you realize that they can be challenging and force you to think in ways you never did before. Ok so econ is pretty much a bore, but I had my favourite professor in my Business and Public Policy course last semester and without the core I would have never taken that course.
If what you want is to study finance or business, then there is no other institution in the world that compares to Wharton in that regard. Also, I am tired of hearing all this "you won't learn much of anything else" garbage that people who don't even attend the school spew about. Sure, you aren't getting a full blown liberal arts education, however the people who are at Wharton have really already made their decision about what they want to study. And if not, get a double major with one major in the college, or just take classes which you find interesting (yes there is room for that).
I will critize the fact that you say you want to be some head or something at Goldman or Lehman already. I think sure you need to focus on what you eventually want to achieve, but also have a broad mindset and learn lots of different things within the world of business. Oh and sorry for calling you a huge tool earlier, for some reason I was having a bad day and you're first post made you sound like a troll so my apologies. If you have any questions concerning the school and want to ask an actual student go ahead and ask or PM me, I will be more than happy to help.</p>
<p>GoodLuck!</p>