<p>I agree kiddo64, this is the aspect of Penn I dislike the most. I love everyone in my own department and the overall academic environment, but the intense snobbery and elitism coming out of Wharton is often very irritating. Don’t get me wrong, many of the students are great and are both very creative and entrepreneurial. These are the ones you hear about building start ups and doing really cool things. However, it feels like a large portion of the class is just gradually sucked in to this investment banking vortex and only cares about money and so called “prestige”. A lot of the guys have some kind of inferiority complex left over from grade school and feel that working at a top bank gives them some sort of power they always wanted. I don’t interact with these people daily and kind of drifted from most of them after freshman year. The only way I hear all of this is through Facebook and the rumor mill. You don’t have to engage with this aspect of Penn if you do not want to, but it’s presence can be irking.</p>