mia305

Any opinions on the pros and cons of each

wumasterx

If thats the Jerome Fischer program. Holy. If you've gotten in, I congratulate you to the FULLEST extent. That is probably one of THE hardest programs to get into. Period. Since its a joint degree program between the Wharton Business School and the Penn Engineering School, its HUGE. Harder to get into than Harvard, takes like 50 kids I believe. You come out of here, you got tons of places to go with that Wharton degree, but combined with engineering, you'll focus on tech related business: internet companies, manufacturing, computer industry, tons of places.

I wish I could get into this. Lol. It makes my mouth water. And Penn is a great school. (Party school, definitely.)

BedHead

Business vs. Engineering for your career

If you want to do engineering, MIT.

If you want to do business, M and T.

If you are undecided, M and T.

If you want to keep your options open, M and T.

akybaky

I'd imagine though, that if you went to MIT and studied management or econ similar to what you'd study at Wharton you'd pretty much have the same tech/ engineering background that M&T would give you based on the fact that it is MIT..

mattwonder

Let's get over the wet dream that is admission. Don't make a decision based upon selectivity.

Straight up - I know many many people in M&T who got rejected from MIT. I think all of us would kill to have gone to MIT.

If deep down at heart, you're an engineer, go to MIT. Penn's not the place for geeks like that (myself included). If you really want to go to Wall St. finance someday, go to Penn. Other than that, your options are open.

bo435

I'd say if you have any interest in business or finance, go to Penn. you can do business or finance coming out of MIT, but it's just not the same as Penn.

RejectedFromMIT

go to MIT without thinking. Penn is the trash that rejected students from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Caltech go to.

I still can't imagine how another university can have a better education than Penn though.