Transfer - Wharton or CAS?

legendofmax
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:43:49 +0000

Yeah, I did a bit more poking around and that seems to be the case (I had misread the earlier quote, dualing is fine). You just can’t just transfer into CAS and then transfer again into Wharton, for instance. You’d have to transfer into CAS and then apply for a dual with Wharton. If you really want Wharton, though, it’s best to do it up-front.

At any rate, I’d call just to make sure. Such a transfer scenario is still really difficult and very rare (I don’t know of anyone who’s done it that way). Most of the transfers just hammer it all through right off the bat during their sophomore year transfer because transferring/changing degree programs junior year is so hard to pull off. There are more and more requirements to fulfill and none of it is a guarantee, so you risk wasting classes, time, emotional/mental effort, grade damage, etc.

You can always apply for an MBA later, too. Plenty of people in CAS take a few Wharton classes and list them on their resume and have no problem finding work in finance later. I don’t think it’s worth killing yourself over trying to get into Wharton undergrad if you’re not going to apply to it directly for the sake of trying to bypass its lower admission rate.