I haven’t….But may be I should.
Dad is Penn Engineering alumni not Wharton. Sister is at Wharton (Initially he was considering ED/EA between Wharton/ Harvard….now I think he is leaning more towards Wharton)
Kid wants to apply to Wharton at Penn not CAS. For him the question is why not……If Penn doesn’t work out he will apply to other business schools RD and Harvard/ Yale for economics.
Having said that….I have told him that he needs to think long and hard about why Wharton.
From where I sit I see many qualities that make him suitable for a management role more than a subject matter expert type of role….He tends to veer towards leadership roles and is most comfortable in those, as I said before he is passionate and has the ability to influence people. He can also strategize, learn what ever he needs to learn quickly and is a very good negotiator. (I realized I put in the wrong score for his SAT2 physics, it is actually 790 not 780….all his scores are in first attempt….and the amount of time he has put into any of these is really very low). He is now into playing chess, which he started last Christmas and has progressed leaps and bounds just soaking up all the strategic moves, and trying those against people online and with dad at home. He is also an avid movie watcher and analyzes not only the movies but the business of movies like no one would….What I mean to say…is that in my view there is probably a good fit with a business education……Not sure how all of this can come through in a college application though……