Dartmouth vs. Wharton

Treebounders
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:59:38 +0000

cbreeze that post doesn’t even begin to make sense. Wharton is the bschool at PENN–of course a disproportionate amount of Wharton grads are going to go into Ibanking.

Are all the students at Dartmouth econ/biz majors? How does the pool of econ/biz majors at Dartmouth compare to the ~410 from Wharton? Differences in average starting salary (scaled to living expenses), quality of recruiting employers (seems prima facie obvious), and other factors are also relevant. Like you’ve said: apples to oranges.

IRJunkie - Wharton obviously has great recruiting and blows almost every other school out of the water in this aspect. In this case, however, the blowing-out-of-the-water is contained to a minimum. Plenty of Dartmouth grads have placed well on the street and continue to do well in investment banking.

With that said, the two schools are very different. Find the one best-suited to your needs (hey if it’s ibank recruiting then so be it). Best of luck.