<p>^says the kid in Bangalore?</p>
<p>sn3 - I don't think princeton has a "business track" so I wouldn't compare princeton to wharton in that aspect. I was saying that you would get a similar liberal arts education in princeton and the college at penn.</p>
<p>haha venkat89 (your last post was exactly what I was thinking)</p>
<p>I fail to see the problem with being a staunch supporter of Western civilization and the importance of studying, while living and working in Bangalore.</p>
<p>As someone whose family is from Bangalore, the people there tend to emphasize engineering and medicine more than being able to read above the high school level.</p>
<p>At Penn you can give yourself a Columbia or Chicago type education very easily (as you should know). Penn is a little about practicality in that somone with a professional track like nursing doesn't have the same amount of space to take all those classes compared to a humanities major at Columbia.</p>
<p>Venkat: whereabouts did/does your fam live in Bangalore? I found a great flat just 30 seconds from Brigade Road and I am a happy camper.</p>
<p>One set of grand parents lives in Koramangala, not really sure where specifically because I never mastered the geography of Bangalore. The other set moved recently and I'm not really sure where specifically either.</p>
<p>bagles, what brought you to bangalore?</p>
<p>Sorry to interrupt this but hypothetically if one wants to do Math + Economics as a double major then which university would be better? Also if Wall Street is 100% where you want to go. Also if you're thinking of taking a PhD in Financial Engineering in order to get into Wall Street does that change anything? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I'm not sure how easy it is to double major at Princeton. I'd imagine it is very tough, especially if you need 2 senior thesises (don't know the correct plural form). At Penn it is very easy to double major between math and econ. I'm planning to do it and all of my math electives are going to be in the econ department.</p>
<p>If Wall Street is your destination you really should major in business at Wharton or Financial Engineering at Princeton. I don't think there are too many differences at the end of the day in terms of opportunities if you graduate from one or the other. There are differences in courses you take and what you learn though.</p>
<p>While not technically prohibited, it is VERY hard to double major at princeton because you would have to write two theses (that's the correct plural form, btw). However, you can major in math and get a finance certificate, which is like a minor. </p>
<p>You don't need to get a phd in order to enter wall street, but ORFE (the financial engineering department) at Princeton is very good. Princeton sends a lot of people to wall street, and there are strong alumni connections, but I think Wharton is strong in those aspects too, obviously.</p>
<p>I was looking at apartments in Koramangala. Nice area.</p>
<p>I've come to Bangalore for a sweet chance to work for Mahindra & Mahindra in a new subsidiary they're starting. Right now it's small, only 30 people. Like working at a startup, but without funding issues. It's a wonderful opportunity to acquaint myself with the 1.n billion people of an incredibly important country, and a rather extreme means of escaping the economic woes back in America ;)</p>
<p>I am more Huntsman than the Huntsman kids (minus the intelligence, anyway)</p>
<p>Getting back on topic, for someone who wants to go into a business field, is Wharton the place to be?</p>
<p>If there is such a thing as THE place to be for business, Wharton would be it. You can still do just fine by going to Princeton (as investor and d-bag extraordinaire Carl Icahn would demonstrate), but to paraphrase W.C. Fields, "all in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia"</p>
<p>What was he smoking?</p>
<p>You <em>cannot</em> double major at Princeton.</p>