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01-16-2008, 04:17 PM
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| Does going to a uni for undergrad help or hurt your odds of gettng into the B-school?
I'm an undergrad at Penn's College of Arts & Sciences and have been trying to figure out if being a Penn grad will help me or hurt me in the likely event I apply to Penn's Wharton school for an MBA in a few years....anyone know?
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01-16-2008, 04:19 PM
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At the very least, it makes the school somewhat less desirable for you.
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01-16-2008, 05:34 PM
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Upenn has a submatriculation program where you get into their law school and finish undergrad and law school in a year less or something so it may be like six years or something, you may want to look into it.
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01-16-2008, 05:36 PM
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Why would he want to go to law school?
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01-17-2008, 12:03 AM
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I don't know how you feel about it, but it might help you a little bit in that Penn would secure you for possible money you would give back (rather than you going somewhere else and splitting between Penn and the school with the business program you get into). Just a thought. I don't know if you want to stay in the Penn area though...Too bad there's no submatriculation straight into Wharton from CAS :-\
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01-17-2008, 12:40 AM
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Too bad there's no submatriculation straight into Wharton
| Well, you would learn less from it, be much younger than all of your classmates, and be at a disadvantage in the job market afterwards. So maybe it's: Too bad there are good reasons why Wharton doesn't do submatriculation.
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01-17-2008, 05:36 AM
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Generally speaking, professional schools prefer their own blood and PhD programs do not. So I would have to say Wharton will probably look favorably on your application.
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01-24-2008, 10:12 PM
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Well, you would learn less from it, be much younger than all of your classmates, and be at a disadvantage in the job market afterwards. So maybe it's: Too bad there are good reasons why Wharton doesn't do submatriculation.
| My sentiment exactly. Even if I could submatriculate in to Wharton for an MBA, I never would. I need to go out and get real-world experience.
As for whether having been here for years already for undergrad would make the grad school less desirable to me, I don't think that would be an issue for me. I <3 Penn, and it would be nice to come back after a few years and see the progress of the 'Penn Connects' eastward expansion--not to mention what will hopefully be an improved Philadelphia!
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01-24-2008, 11:41 PM
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Less desirable wasn't meant in a subjective sense. I mean, some of the branding benefits come from having diverse brands on your resume -- meaning that Penn undergrad and Penn MBA aren't quite as valuable as Penn undergrad and an equivalently prestigious MBA from somewhere else.
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01-25-2008, 02:38 AM
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There is a UPenn submatriculation into business school.
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01-28-2008, 12:20 AM
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Dbate: Yes, but that's open only to Wharton students I believe.
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