<p>I’ve heard that Penn look down upon students trying to transfer “back-door” to Wharton, but then I hear that you can transfer as long as you took pre-req classes and have a GPA around 3.7. What’s the deal here? Is there a difference?</p>
<p>Also, would it be OK to mention Wharton and some Wharton buildings in my Why Penn essay if I’m applying to the College? The scenario was me transferring to Wharton after my freshman year at the college.</p>
<p>If you are planning to “back-door” into Wharton right now, then you don’t deserve to be there in the first place. </p>
<p>Write about it if you want, but adcoms can see passion.</p>
<p>Students are encouraged to apply to the school’s business program after their freshman or sophomore years (Ross, for example, at UMich) elsewhere, so I didn’t see back-dooring as an issue. That’s why I asked in reference to UPenn.</p>
<p>getting into wharton as a internal transfer is even tougher than getting in the first time around, i think. you’re facing much stiffer competition, and i think they’ll make absolute certain that u took some wharton classes, and had a change of heart. i think if they feel you’ve been planning to backdoor all along, you wont get in</p>
<p>simultaneous post there. yeah, not here. #1 business school, my friend. it just doesnt work the same here</p>
<p>What would be the difference between these scenarios:</p>
<p>Scenario A: First two years at CAS, last two years at Wharton, then 2 years at Wharton for the MBA
Scenario B: Four years at CAS, then 2 years at Wharton for the MBA</p>
<p>Is there a significant difference? Is either one even advisable?</p>
<p>Scenario A can’t be done. Wharton grads get a BSE, not a MBA, and i don’t think transfers are usually made after soph year, i THINK its usually at the end of freshman year.
Scenario B is ok, as long as your GSE and grades are good enough. But i only know a little about wharton ug, and know very little about graduate business ed. </p>
<p>As for being advisable, what do you want to do? (in life)</p>
<p>Wharton takes about 60 or more internal transfers a year. It varies from year to year. You have to have taken a few prerequisite classes (two econs and Math 104, I think) and have a minimum 3.4 GPA (it really requires at least a 3.6). It is strictly based on GPA and is NOT as hard as getting into Penn in the first place, as long as you do well as a freshman. You have two more chances to transfer into Wharton- midyear soph year and end of soph year.</p>
<p>i stand corrected</p>
<p>At this point, I want to get into the best MBA program I can (Wharton preferably) and whatever it takes to get there. I’m not entirely sure what I want to do, but it will probably be in the realm of marketing psychology/consumer behavior/advertising. </p>
<p>I think my most realistic scenario would be 1 year at UMich Arts and Sciences, 3 years at Ross, and then 2 years at Wharton for my MBA. I don’t like the whole URM concept, but I think that will help me a lot. </p>
<p>I was looking for a list of Wharton MBA grads and what UG schools they attended. I just want to have the best chance to make it to Wharton MBA. That’s my goal in a nutshell.</p>
<p>wow, complex. idk, you’d have to surf around the wharton site for something like that. this isnt really my area of expertise. but a 4.0 at UM and great GSE could get you into wharton MBA.</p>
<p>best MBA would probably be (according to rankings, anyway) Harvard, not Wharton</p>
<p>you should probably not go the school you want go to for your MBA for your undergraduate…schools tend to not want their own graduates. shouldn’t go to penn if you want wharton mba</p>
<p>Actually, if you’re interested in ‘business psychology’ as it were, then Penn is a pretty good place to be - the Psych dept. is really strong, and they actually offer an interschool minor in consumer psychology (so you don’t have to be in Wharton to do it) and the Comm department is pretty good as well.
ETA: Oh, and that would also make it OK to talk about Wharton in the why Penn essay…you might even get bonus points for knowing about those interschool minors!</p>
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<p>I’ve read that most Wharton alumns are from UPenn UG.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=22225&postcount=3[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=22225&postcount=3</a></p>
<p>lauraanne, doesn’t that contradict what you said here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=1304291&postcount=7[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=1304291&postcount=7</a></p>
<p>How hard is it to submatriculate into the MBA program from Wharton?</p>
<p>Don’t apply to the College with the goal of doing an internal transfer to Wharton. You can try for 2 years to do it, but there is no guarantee that it’s going to happen as it’s extremely competitive, so then what do you do when you’ve been dinged 3 times and are now behind on your major classes in the College? You’re better off going to another business school where you can guarantee that you’ll be studying what you want all four years. Plus adcoms can sniff out Wharton back door applicants.</p>
<p>You can totally still go to Penn if you want an MBA from Wharton. There are a lot of Penn undergrad alums who are getting their MBAs at Wharton every year. I think it’s less popular for Wharton alums to go back to Wharton for their MBA but that’s because they’ve done a lot of the same classes already and had the same professors so it seems redundant. Most Wharton alums choose to go elsewhere for their MBAs.</p>
<p>As far as submatting goes - everyone says they want to do it when they are freshmen, but by the time you are juniors and have to apply, almost everyone backs out. Only about 10 people max apply each year and about 2-3 are accepted. You need to remember that you are applying alongside traditional MBA candidates who have 4-6 years of work experience so you need to have an extremely compelling application. You are not considered in a separate pool of just submats.</p>
<p>How would adcoms know whether someone is using CAS as a backdoor to Wharton? I’m not applying to Wharton or planning on it (or am I? j/k) but I’m just curious of how they can figure something like that out. It makes me paranoid to do my best to not appear as if I want to go to Wharton.</p>