Huntsman vs Princeton

UHSdebater
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:07:00 +0000

What an awesome decision your son has to make. I had the exact same decision to make last year (except it was for single-degree wharton), and it was very, very difficult. As a freshman I don’t have much to say that should be a suggestion on how to go about picking between the two, but I’ll just add a few things.

Seriously, how different can job placement and quality of academics between the two schools? So many things are indistinguishable between the two schools. Of course, I have no experience with this yet, but I can’t imagine Wharton or Princeton opportunities will be any different, if at all.

I would highly suggest that your son visit both campuses during their preview weekend and try to meet and interact with as many people as possible. With honestly so little difference, might as well go to where you feel you will be the happiest. Princeton’s preview weekend is what helped me choose Penn. A lot of the people I met at Princeton (mostly all prefrosh who already decided on princeton) just were a complete turn off. That’s not to say that this is the case for everyone…more of that Princeton wasn’t as good for me as Penn. I liked the Penn vibe more and the idea of living in a city.

I also have to add that I have really enjoyed my courses in Wharton departments so far (more than the CAS courses, with the exception of worthless MGMT 100) and I look forward to taking many more in the future. There are tons of classes to choose from, so you can make Wharton as hard (or easy) as you want to. I just wish more people weren’t so sucked into protecting their GPA at the expense of taking more challenging classes, but whatever…that doesn’t mean you have to be like them.