<p>if it were up to me I’d probably go to yale for undergrad then wharton or whatever for the MBA if I still decided to do it. Undergrad should be about flexibility and options!</p>
<p>yes, but if your set for business wharton is a no brainer</p>
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<p>While I agree with this statement, I fail to see how Penn & Wharton doesn’t clearly fulfill this objective better than Yale does.</p>
<p>Penn is a larger school, and while I haven’t checked the course catalogs, I’ll bet that Penn offers more majors, and more class selections within most majors.</p>
<p>As to prestige, I don’t see much difference between a school ranked #3 in USNWR, and a school ranked #4. Is there an invisible chasm I have failed to perceive? [National</a> Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings]National”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings)</p>
<p>As to the prestige of Wharton among anyone involved in business at any level, Wharton = Harvard > YPSM.</p>
<p>Yale admissions numbers went down: [Yale</a> Daily News - Bucking trend, Yale’s applications dip](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/01/21/bucking-trend-yales-applications-dip/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/01/21/bucking-trend-yales-applications-dip/)</p>
<p>…and Penn’s went up 17%: [Penn</a> Current: Latest News: Applications to Penn reach all-time high](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html]Penn”>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/latestnews/012510.html)</p>
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<p>That makes no sense. So what about all those engineers who just want to build startups and work in Silicon Valley like their daddies? </p>
<p>Yes if you want to work on in finance you should go to Wall St and Wharton, and if you want to be an engineer you should go to Silicon Valley and Stanford/MIT. If you want to work in the medicine go to JHU. If you want to study english, literature, history, etc. go to Yale (I think those are Yale’s top departments)</p>
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<p>How does Penn lack flexibility? I know lots of wharton students doing dual degrees in Penn’s CAS, as well as people like me who are doing dual degrees in finance and engineering. I’d say that gives you MUCH more flexibility than a liberal arts degree from Yale. There are very few people who just study finance</p>
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<p>Just because you went to Penn CAS instead of Wharton doesn’t mean you need to be bashing undergrad business every chance you get…</p>
<p>I think most people don’t even understand Wharton’s curriculum. They think undergrad business = studying business, management, entrepreneurship, communication and a bunch of soft skills. </p>
<p>In reality, most of Wharton’s curriculum consists of finance, accounting, econ, insurance, statistics, etc. These are skills that you will actually need when you start working, as opposed to plotting supply/demand and marginal utility graphs.</p>
<p>If the decision were mine, Wharton in a heartbeat. And I’m like you; I am not 100% sure that I want to get an MBA and pursue a defined career in business, but I’m confident enough that I want to pursue something within that scope of business/economics. Wharton might have a business focus but to say that it can’t offer much more in the way of the overall undergraduate experience (remember that UPenn is a melting pot of college students of all sorts, not just business majors) or educational experience is just silly.</p>
<p>No I know penn is flexible as hell, but if you’re specifically comparing wharton to CAS at yale, CAS is more diverse</p>
<p>So are we saying that a Wharton education provides more realistic/practical skills compared to a Yale liberal arts education?</p>
<p>yes, it does</p>