<p>In reference to the above two posters: considering that you are still in high school and have not even stepped foot into an invesment bank let alone attended a college lecture, I would take your claims with all the salt in the dead sea. </p>
<p>Now I consulted with two of my friends when i was making my college decision. One worked at Lehman and is a Harvard alum he is now CEO of his own companyin HK, the other was a director at Lehman and went to Cambridge. They would both dispute what you said. </p>
<p>Only a third of Whartonites get MBAs precisely because their degrees are so respected. Undergraduates take MANY of the same courses as the MBAs, with the same Proffesors, and often do better in these same courses. Both said that a Wharton Undergraduate degree gets approaches a Wharton MBA in terms of respect. Now that does not mean that you are going to be hired as an associate out of college, but it dos mean that 5 years out if one guy has a Wharton MBA and a Harvard college degree, and the other guy just has a Wharton BSE they will be viewed and put up for promotion in the same bucket. Their finance skills are equal, what matters now is their on the job performance and job experience, both of which the Wharton BSE is more likely to have more of considering he did not take the time out to do an MBA. He’ll also be a 100k out of debt. </p>
<p>A wharton BSE also allows you to go and get a law school degree or something simmilar given you the best finance skills in the world AND the knowledge of law etc. So you come out with even a better package in that sense. I can show you MDs at Blackstone with only wharton udnergraduate degrees. You would be unable to do likewise for HYPSM.</p>
<p>“Undergrad business programs are getting MBA-like respect”
<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg;
<p>But we are not here debating whether a Wharton BSE is superior to a Wharton MBA, instead we are debating whether a Wharton BSE gives us advantages over a HYPSM undergraduate liberal arts degree. Are we, as Whartonites, missing out on something that the HYPSM guys get? Are they the ones missing out? </p>
<p>But i’d like to hear what Wharton alums / current students / recently accepted students have to say about this. Awped ?</p>