<p>How different is the education one would receive at Wharton from the education one would receive at CAS? How do the student bodies differ? How, exactly, is Wharton different?</p>
<p>wharton is the business school with about half the acceptance rate. Wharton kids are smarter and more challenged than most CAS. you are trained specifically for business.</p>
<p>at wharton, your major is set from the start. so you get little time/space to do random classes which would interest you by your whims, since the time slots you do have open to choose your own classes, most people have to strategically choose them so that it matches their concentrations and/or minor. most of our classes are laid out for us from the start. and all our classes are about business; you do finance, marketing, accounting, etc... </p>
<p>at cas, its just "regular college." you wont have to decide your major until later and you have some time to just explore at first</p>
<p>i won't get into the "which school has smarter kids" debate again, but the major difference would be in the curriculum.</p>
<p>just as engineers are trained in the practical applications of math and science, wharton students are trained in the practical applications of economics and math.</p>
<p>the college provides a more theoretical approach to economics / mathematics / everything.</p>
<p>other than the super business-focused activities, students from all the undergrad schools are more or less equally mixed across the countless clubs, groups, and activities on and around campus.</p>
<p>"Wharton kids are smarter and more challenged than most CAS. you are trained specifically for business."</p>
<p>What a stupid thing to say.</p>
<p>Are Wharton students treated differently on campus, socially or... however else-ly?</p>
<p>The school throws them some nice events, particularly during NSO. Career services are a bit better to them, but that may be because Wharton kids are more "career-focused" anyways.</p>
<p>You'd be hard-pressed to spot a Whartonite. I'm always surprised when I find out some people are in Wharton. They're not all conservative WASPS or hardworking Asians/Indians.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and 1MX...why don't you actually get into Penn before making such stupid comments?</p>
<p>most significant difference in treatment would be access to wharton-only systems (like the majority of the computers in huntsman and other wharton buildings)</p>
<p>to solve that one, take a wharton class (can be done by anyone in any school) and you'll have access enabled.</p>
<p>Wharton kids are treated very differently. They have secret keys to top-notch bathrooms, regular people ask for their autographs, they get free sushi, and general etiquette is that you don't talk to them unless they talk to you first.</p>
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<p>I don't know if you're being serious or sarcastic.</p>
<p>:) I think it was sarcastic.</p>
<p>I think so too.</p>
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<p>Only in their heads ;)</p>
<p>It was different a decade or so again when SAS was a bastion of mediocrity. In the 1990s, Wharton students actually got email service a year or two before SAS kids did.</p>
<p>But again, times change...you need look no farther than the recent alumni rolls to see that in the end we all turn out similar...which is to say, better than everyone else ;)</p>
<p>in wharton haf of your classes are still liberal arts. in addition, all of the candidates today are so well-qualified that it's a lottery for both wharton and the college; the kids are not really better qualified, but they have a slightly lower chance of getting accepted due to worse odds.</p>