<p>I searched and couldn’t find a post that referenced this… [What</a> Wharton Wants](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?), an article from BusinessWeek.com.</p>
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<p>too bad only the first page works</p>
<p>lol great link....i get to read only 25%?</p>
<p>I clicked on "Print this Story", and the whole article came up.</p>
<p>thanks beachdad would have been in the dark for the rest of my life...now i can know what he wanted the day after I applied ED :(</p>
<p>I'm sorry - I suppose I should have posted that link. I am the one who participated in the chat with Dean Stetson. There were actually many more questions and answers that were left out of the chat transcript.</p>
<p>If anyone has questions about the Wharton environment, faculty, courses, etc. please feel free to ask.</p>
<p>WhartonAdvisor I have a question about the admissions process to Wharton. As I have heard, Penn does not have an official Wharton adcom that reviews the application from wharton students. Instead, Penn's adcom overall, makes the decisions on this. My question is, are the wharton applicants judged based off other wharton applicants or by applicants that apply to Penn? Also, what does wharton weight highly upon?</p>
<p>The admissions committee is comprised of the Regional Director for your area, the Chair (a senior admissions officer), and a school representative (in this case, someone from Wharton). There is no such thing as "Penn's adcom overall." </p>
<p>I recommend that you contact your Regional Director with specific questions about how you are evaluated.</p>
<p>Thank you. :)</p>
<p>Wharton Advisor... will the fact that I took the SAT II in Spanish, which is my native language, affect me? Will you even consider it?</p>
<p>Will Calculus AB as a senior and AP Stats as a junior suffice?</p>
<p>^^ WhartonAdvisor won't answer "chances" threads/posts, and for good reason.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm rather surprised that Wharton requires calculus and a strong mathematical background. I'm curious why. I suppose I haven't done my research sufficiently, as I considered most business majors to be more humanities-based than mathematical. I know you probably can not answer this, but for students who are not taking calculus ... are their chances at admission substancially lower/disadvantaged?</p>
<p>Woohoo... all of this calculus is finally paying off.</p>
<p>Hey awaiting, have you ever taken an economics class? It's definitely on the mathematical side of things</p>
<p>If you have not taken calculus during high school, you are at a disadvantage. Please read my replies on the thread about Wharton requiring calculus.</p>
<p>Lets just hope that Wharton wants me.;)</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I will have taken calculus, but not until the senior year (in IB math at my school, we don't cover this until senior year). Will Wharton accept this? Does Wharton acknowledge the differences in IB math, and how calculus is not the only topic that we cover?</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply, WhartonAdvisor.</p>
<p>As far as I know, most students don't even take Calculus during college, and those that do end up doing so their senior year. I think it would be a bit impractical for them to hold the fact that you took Calc during your senior year against you.</p>
<p>But Wharton is an undergraduate business school with several core courses that require quantitative skills. It's reasonable to expect that a student would have a sufficient mathematical background for finance, multivar, etc.</p>