<p>(10 char because i dont know how to do the 1 char trick)</p>
<p>because
A) there are so few applicants
B) there will be so few applicants accepted
C) it's pretty much a pointless endeavor. unless you're like, chelsea clinton.</p>
<p>Why is it pointless? I haven't heard the stats on Wharton applicants. What are the #s and the acceptance rate?</p>
<p>I believe I read that the acceptance rate last year was 5-6%.</p>
<p>Chanman, you've been interested in Wharton for a long time now. I can recall your freshman admission posts in the upenn forum in 2005. I don't know if anyone wants it as badly. I hope you get it.</p>
<p>chanman- I hope you have really checked it out and made sure it is really what you want. My son sure changed his mind about it this year.</p>
<p>^was your son in wharton and then dropped/transferred out?
Or has he just decided he no longer wants to apply?</p>
<p>I'm bumping this post...because I'm applying there and wanted to know if interviews were done?</p>
<p>I didnt have any interviews. They sat down to make a decision in the first week of May and I got my acceptance letter around May 13! I don't think they care too much about interviews.</p>
<p>My son is in CAS but was planning either a dual degree with Wharton or trying to transfer in, but has changed his mind about that.</p>
<p>Why did he change his mind on Wharton? Econ instead?</p>
<p>mishra, how do you know they made decisions early may, and not march/april?</p>
<p>My son has found Penn to be too pre-professional for his liking. He thought that was what he wanted, but the reality of it is far different from what he expected. Wharton in particular can not provide the kind of education he has realized he wants. He may transfer from Penn, but if he stays he will totally change focus and will take a broader liberal arts curriculum. He wants an education and feels Wharton is all about just getting a prestigious degree. Penn and Wharton are wonderful, and a lot of this stuff is very situational to him, but I understand where he is coming from. I will say that he isn't alone in this viewpoint. It all depends what you want from your college education.</p>
<p>All students come to college for different reasons and seek different types of educations. I sought out Wharton and a business degree because the practical education will enable me to make the biggest contribution to the world as soon as possible.</p>
<p>could you get into UPenn and then switch into wharton sfter youre accepted, or do you have to do it like the same as transfering from penn state.</p>
<p>No offense, but did your son even get accepted into Wharton? I can understand if he did and changed his mind after actually taking classes at the school. But just doing research about the program and then determining that it doesn't "fit" his needs without actually attending the school is quite ignorant.</p>
<p>Colin- no offense, but you seem a little ignorant to me. My son has spent a lot of time around Wharton and lots of kids IN Wharton and has taken the prereq courses for transferring. He has a solid idea of what it involves- and also learned that many Wharton freshmen don't have any idea what the business world is like or even what a mutual fund is. My son is not knocking it at all- but it is not what he wants from his college education. He didn't know this when he started, but he knows it now. Sorry this is threatening to you. My only point in posting was that many applicants, including my son, have no idea what a Wharton education really means until they get to Penn. There is a perception that you will never get a good job and earn lots of money without that Wharton degree. There are daily emails from the career counseling department focusing on resumes, internships, how to interview etc. If this is for you- go for it. My son wants a more intellectual focus and he isn't finding it in the Wharton path.</p>
<p>The courses required to transfer are Econ 001, Econ 002, and Math 104, which are College courses that almost every student at Penn takes. They are not Wharton courses and are not likely to give students a sense of what Wharton is like. This is why we recommend that students sit in on actual Wharton classes before they apply because our classes are very different. </p>
<p>We don't expect our freshmen to understand the business world or know what a mutual fund is. This is not what being in Wharton is about. We want our students to learn and explore just as much as anyone else. In the end, we hope to provide our students with a framework for thinking, for analyzing problems, for making decisions, that can be applied to any situation. It's not about learning a checklist of business terms.</p>
<p>The Office of Career Services at Penn serves the entire university. The two staff members who work directly with Wharton students do send emails out, but directed more at juniors and seniors. Less is sent to sophomores and hardly anything is sent to freshmen. And the emails are not just about resumes, internships, and getting a job. They are about exploring careers, graduate school, etc. just like any other career office would send. If anything is different, it's that they are more focused on the industries that heavily recruit Wharton students.</p>
<p>I completely agree that Wharton is not for everyone and that it is not always easy to make that determination. However, please do not assume that because Wharton is a business school that the experience isn't intellectual, or that the only source of intellectualism is a pure liberal arts program.</p>
<p>MomofWildChild - I think the Wharton Advisor further explained my point that I was trying to make. So you're telling me that because your son took the pre req's required for transfer students (which is the same courses that pretty much all college students take) and knowing a couple students who are there is enough information to judge that the program isn't what he's looking for? Are you kidding me? And you're the one that's calling me ignorant... yikes. Again I stated that if you're son actually got ACCEPTED into the program and sat in actual Wharton classes for a whole semester and then decided the program wasn't what he was looking for.... THEN and only then I can understand. </p>
<p>You're quote of "My only point in posting was that many applicants, including my son, have no idea what a Wharton education really means until they get to Penn" is something I agree with... however I would change that last phrase to "no idea what a Wharton education really means until they get to WHARTON". You're son did NOT get into Wharton nor took any Wharton classes and you're saying he now somehow has "a solid idea of what it involves"?</p>
<p>My son has plenty of contact with Wharton. He has friends and dormmates who are totally miserable in their Wharton classes. He has talked to upper-classmen and faculty. He has attended lectures. It isn't too hard to figure out what Wharton is all about when you are on the Penn campus 24/7. It IS hard to figure out what it is all about when you are in high school figuring you will take the surest path to a big salary and a prestigious degree. If that is what you think you want- go for it. He was recently contacted by a Wharton alum who told him, "It is all ********. You just have to get through it to get the degree."
What is your point in arguing this? Wharton (and much of Penn) is extremely pre-professional. That is no secret. If that is NOT what you want for a college environment, look elsewhere. My son thought he wanted that and has changed his mind. I am not saying Penn (or Wharton) pretended to be otherwise. I'm just saying that if you think you are going to be around a lot of kids who enjoy learning for learning's sake, you are not. Look, Colin, I did some coursework at Penn, much of my family attended and I am a Philadelphia native. There are many good things about Penn.</p>