Should I apply SAS or Wharton?

cmburns14
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:35:19 +0000

wow man, read your profile, quite a compelling life story. 2200 will make you competitve for a bunch of top schools. SAS has the smartest kids (math, physics, chem, computational bio, etc.) and the dumbest kids (most of the soft stuff), while Wharton students are kind of in between, in general. You’re unlikely to meet a kid who wows you with his intelligence in Wharton, but they are very ambitious, career-oriented from day one and know what it takes to get ahead on Wall Street- budding financiers from grade school haha…

Econ in SAS is a solid top 10 department, though IR is not that great at Penn. You have a lot more flexibility in terms of curriculum in SAS so the rigor of your schooling is what you make of it. Wharton is more structured and your training will be quite homogeneous to your peers. I would strongly advise a business-minded student in SAS to take ACCT 101 and FNCE 100 and an intro computer science class.