<p>I was lucky enough to get accepted to these two great institutions. Now, I need to choose.</p>
<p>I plan on getting my MBA after undergrad, but that isn't set in stone. If I do go to Yale, I will be studying economics. I didn't get any financial aid from either school.</p>
<p>Please tell me which school you think is better! Biased opinions are welcome! I want to hear what everybody thinks. Thanks.</p>
<p>Wharton gives you the very real option of NOT “needing” to go back for an MBA… that gives you a lot of flexibility.</p>
<p>Yale. Wharton basically commits you to entering finance. Yale gives you all the finance opportunities that Wharton will except you have flexibility to pursue other things.</p>
<p>1 vote for each. This is interesting.</p>
<p>i’m with PimpDaddy1</p>
<p>While Wharton might be most well-known for finance, it offers top programs in pretty much any business field, from accounting to insurance to management to marketing to real estate. It is true that you may not need an MBA - basically the Wharton undergraduate education combines the MBA education with a liberal arts education.</p>
<p>What type of college experience most interests you? These are broad generalities but Penn offers a more traditional “work hard - play hard,” sports, school spirit, fraternity - sorority experience. Yale offers more of an intellectual ivory tower experience.</p>
<p>Both are urban but Philadelphia would offer more big city amenities than New Haven. Both are an hour or so from NYC by train.</p>
<p>Yale has more cachet with non-business people if that’s important to you.</p>
<p>“Yale has more cachet with non-business people if that’s important to you.”</p>
<p>That’s what I really like, the flexibility to not be bottled up into the banking/finance mindset and receive a broader education. I’m not too sure though.</p>
<p>If you’re 18, take into account the difficulty for 18-year-old to project what their lifelong goals, passions, and careers will be. The typical college student change majors more than once. I’d pick Yale, but how could anyone suggest that Penn isn’t an excellent choice too?</p>
<p>You can go to Wharton and have nothing to do with banking or finance. Also, there are plenty of opportunities to explore non-business subjects. (It’s required.)</p>
<p>I was using “cachet” as a synonym for prestige. Penn (non-Wharton) is outstanding but Yale’s brand trumps it. If you want a business education, then Wharton is it.</p>
<p>yale.
you can explore other fields and i think your classmates will be more well rounded in terms of their academic interests
learning from and with people who are different from you is really an important part of your education
you even say yourself that getting an MBA isnt set in stone, how can you be so sure that you will continue with business in the future?
plus… yale is just awesome!! 
congratulations and good luck choosing from a 2014 yalie!</p>
<p>“more well rounded”. I beg to difer. Penn students aren’t exactly chopped liver and the bredth of academic offerings will be greater (resulting in a more well rounded student body).</p>
<p>Yale is Yale and is hard to pass up that name.</p>
<p>If you want to study business AND get a well rounded LA education at the same time, Wharton.</p>
<p>Yale</p>
<p>the flexibility is important</p>
<p>it is just a better undergraduate school</p>
<p>Re flexibility at Wharton: [Interdisciplinary</a> Study](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/UnderGrad/Knowledge/Interdisciplinary-Study.htm]Interdisciplinary”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/UnderGrad/Knowledge/Interdisciplinary-Study.htm)</p>
<p>Wharton fo sho. Unless you are dont actually want to go into business. Penn and Yale Economics are rated similarly (#9 and #6).</p>
<p>You should go where you really want to go. Don’t even think about MBA at this point. You haven’t even started college yet.</p>
<p>It really depends on what you want to do. It sounds like you’re interested in business/finance or you wouldn’t be studying econ at yale. If that is the case, I guarantee you will get better recruiting at Wharton. Wharton is on par or even slightly ahead of Harvard for finance/consulting recruiting, Yale is a distant fourth or fifth behind Princeton. Top firms like Blackstone or Silverlake recruit almost their entire analyst class from Wharton.</p>
<p>I turned down Yale and Stanford for Wharton, but that was because I knew what I wanted to do and that Wharton best fits my goals. Yale was too liberal arts and stanford too techy for my taste. The only school I would have taken over Wharton was Harvard. </p>
<p>Also, I was told that what you learn is economics rarely ends up being applicable to what you want to do (unless you want to become an economist). Supply/demand curves, marginal utility, etc. are pretty irrelevant in finance. </p>
<p>Lastly, people get MBAs so that they can make the next step in their career and build some connections. It has absolutely nothing to do with acquiring more knowledge, so going to Wharton for undergrad does not (and should not) preclude you from getting an MBA. You should also look into doing a dual degree at Penn</p>
<p>Yale.</p>
<p>Why? Because you won’t be in the Wharton “rat race” of lame 18 y/o’s that just want to make money like their daddies who work on Wall Street. I think a Wharton degree is over-rated at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Yale is a lot more eclectic AND the residential college system is a much better undergraduate experience. </p>
<p>In my own experience, the Wharton MBA is a much better degree than the undergrad so Yale College will be a greater overall experience.</p>
<p>And like others said, if you want to switch to anything else, Yale offers a lot.</p>
<p>They’re two very different experiences. I personally am against the idea of undergraduate business. That said, Penn offers through its multiplicity of grad schools a breadth of opportunities that Yale can’t match.</p>
<p>some of these posts are completely biased with no basis whatsoever. I think they are just resentful that talented students are choosing UPenn (a lower ranked school) for wharton over HYP, why do you think wharton has the highest yield at 80%?</p>